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It’s not a huge surprise, but Darren Harris has decided to put his name in the portal. He could always change his mind, of course, but realistically, he probably won’t. And we’re really going to miss him. Harris made some of the great hustle plays this season than Duke has seen in a while. He […]
“They said I couldn’t do it,” Final Four Most Outstanding Player Elliot Cadeau said on social media after winning the National Championship. Who’s the “they?” His former team, the North Carolina Tar Heels. Cadeau, with the help of his teammates, also used some more colorful language to describe North Carolina. He’s not the only former […]
Word got out Monday afternoon that UNC has hired Mike Malone, most recently head coach of the Denver Nuggets and winner of the 2023 NBA championship, as its next coach. Reactions are mixed. Many UNC fans were baffled, but that’s not surprising. Like most fans, they aren’t steeped in the business side of basketball. That’s […]
Hail to the victors, as Michigan wrapped up the first Big Ten national basketball championship since Michigan State’s title in 2000 (trivia question: when was the last time that a Big Ten team won the national championship that was not from the state of Michigan? Okay, it was Indiana in 1987. Second trivia question: when […]
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Monday night, Michigan captured the 2026 NCAA championship with a gritty display of tough-minded basketball. They needed every bit of it, because UConn matched them stride for stride in hard-nosed intensity. It wasn’t a pretty game, but it was hugely impressive. The NCAA tournament began 87 years ago, and over the decades it has featured […]
Portal season is beginning to crank up, and that means lots of player movement. We’ll do our best to keep up with it here. The most notable players to make moves so far are Virginia Tech’s Neoklis Avdalas, Pitt’s Brandin Cummings, and Georgia Tech’s Baye Ndongo, who seemed to regress this season. More are certain […]
The national championship is Monday night, and things have changed a bit since our first look at the matchup between Michigan and UConn. For the Wolverines, Yaxel Lendeborg, who injured his ankle and knee, is expected to play. And UConn’s Solo Ball has been in a boot since UConn’s win over the Illini. It’s hard […]
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Remember, at the beginning of this NBA season, when people compared Cooper Flagg to Andrei Kirilenko, also known as AK-47? Kirilenko was an athletic defensive star, and many people thought that is where Flagg would end up. Well, not so much. He’s an excellent defender, as promised, but has also emerged as an offensive star. […]
While the end of the Duke basketball season is always a terribly sad time, it at least allowed the Duke Basketball Roundup to bring our old friend Sam Klein back on the show for the season recap via the Stats Game. Every year, the DBR Podcast team all guess at various statistical measures of success in […]
Sunday turned out to be a busier day than expected for Cameron Boozer. First, Boozer got more hardware for the trophy wing of the house he’ll soon buy, as he was named the Naismith Player of the Year award Sunday. It’s richly deserved – he had a phenomenal season by any standard, and unbelievable for […]
So Monday night is set: UConn and Michigan will meet in the finals. This is a very interesting match for several reasons. First and foremost, we’ll see two excellent teams. We honestly thought Arizona was playing well enough to beat Michigan, and the Wolverines toyed with them. That was stunning, and more so since Yaxel […]
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In 1983, Houston put on a devastating display in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament against Louisville. It was an astonishing performance, an aerial assault of epic proportions. It was so wild that Louisville players were going to the monitors to see replays of what Houston was doing. That team also had historic Hall of […]
The UNC coaching search took a rather dramatic turn Friday as Arizona managed to sign Tommy Lloyd to a lucrative extension. UNC’s top choices had been rumored to be Lloyd, Michigan’s Dusty May, and Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan. Lloyd was generally seen as the most likely option, and possibly the most interested. May could […]
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As you probably know, former Duke stars Kon Knueppel and Cooper Flagg have been locked into a riveting battle for NBA Rookie of the Year. One night, one has a phenomenal game; the next night, the other one does. Earlier this week, Knueppel broke the Hornets franchise record for made threes, and this came after […]
After a sensational freshman season, the honors continue to pour in for Duke’s Cameron Boozer. The latest: he was named the AP National Player of the Year, receiving 59 of 61 votes (the other two went to BYU’s AJ Dybantsa). Modestly, Boozer told the AP that “…it just goes to show more about what our […]
The Duke Blue Devils are in the offseason, and there are a few stories and nuggets to discuss on DBR Bites #157. Jason and Donald review some of the news stories and events that have taken place since the weekend, starting with Cameron Boozer, Jon Scheyer, and Maliq Brown. The most prestigious of the national […]
Kon Knueppel has had a remarkable rookie season, but he was initially viewed as something of a consolation prize. His Duke teammate (and roommate) Cooper Flagg was the great prize of last year’s draft. Called a generational talent, he was taken by Dallas with the first pick, and Knueppel fell to the #4 pick, where […]
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An Achilles injury is one of the most devastating injuries an athlete can suffer. Knee injuries used to be nearly as bad, but arthroscopic surgery has really changed that. Treatment has advanced, but Achilles injuries are still very difficult to overcome. So when former Blue Devil Jayson Tatum collapsed in a heap last year during […]
Two more big honors for Blue Devils as Malik Brown won the Lefty Driesell Award for the nation’s best defender and Cameron Boozer added to his haul with the Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award and the Kyle Macy Freshman of the Year Award from CollegeInsider.com. Boozer also won the CBS Sports Player […]
People used to say that recruiting is the lifeblood of college basketball. It’s not exactly true anymore, at least not in the same way it once was. It would probably be more accurate now to say that talent acquisition is a more precise term. However it happens, young players come into basketball every year, and […]