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ACC Portal Tracker
Here is a list of ACC high school recruits, and some international signees too. BOSTON COLLEGE OUT IN CAL OUT IN CLEMSON OUT IN DUKE OUT IN FLORIDA STATE OUT IN GEORGIA TECH OUT IN LOUISVILLE OUT IN MIAMI OUT IN NORTH CAROLINA OUT IN NORTH CAROLINA STATE OUT IN NOTRE DAME OUT IN PITT […]
Chip Engelland Changed The Course Of Shane Battier’s Career
If you took all the players who have come through Duke Basketball since 1960, for argument’s sake, and you had to pick one guy who epitomizes what we think of as Duke Basketball, it would be hard to beat Shane Battier. When he came to Duke, a lot of people predicted he’d run for president […]
Where There’s A Will, There’s A Delay
Following the obligatory ribbing from Duke and UNC fans, after Will Wade left NC State after just one season, and under shady circumstances, Blue Devils and Tar Heels fans mostly agreed with our Wolfpack brethren: that was pretty shabby behavior. Well, karma may have pulled up at Baton Rouge: it’s the first week in August, […]
Twitter Gold: Cozell McQueen
The 1983 NC State team remains iconic, not least of all for Lorenzo Charles’ last-second dunk and Jim Valvano’s frantic effort to find someone, anyone, to hug after the Wolfpack took down mighty Houston. That team was seeded #6, and pulled off one of the most magical runs in NCAA history. State beat Pepperdine 69-67, […]
Duke-Georgia Date Set For Jimmy V Classic Encounter
We talked about the Duke-Georgia game in the Jimmy V Classic back in May, but the date hadn’t been released. Well, now we know: the Blue Devils and Bulldogs will face off in Madison Square Garden on December 8. As you probably know, Georgia is coached by Mike White, son of former Duke A.D. Kevin […]
Tommy Amaker Returns To Cameron In December
Back in the Krzyzewski era, Coach K said that he didn’t like to play against his former players who had become coaches. His successor, Jon Scheyer, has only coached for four seasons so far, and none of his players have become coaches, so he doesn’t have that issue. And so he has had no issue […]
ACC Preview #9 – Georgia Tech
#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson||#6 – Miami || #7 – Louisville || ACC Preview #8 – Pitt At a further remove, the Bobby Cremins era looks much more like a great exception for Georgia Tech basketball, which, historically, has never been great, other than when he coached […]
YouTube Gold: Duke vs. Toronto Highlights From 2018
Duke has had some amazing teams over the years, but one of the most entertaining teams we’ve ever seen was the 2018-19 Blue Devils. That team, featuring Jordan Goldwire, Jack White, Cam Reddish, Tre Jones, RJ Barrett, and Zion Williamson, burst on the college scene like a supernova with a total destruction of Kentucky, 118-84. […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Profile: Deron Rippey
Jon Scheyer has been coaching Duke Basketball since 2022. In that time, his point guards have been Jeremy Roach, Caleb Foster, Tyrese Proctor, and Cayden Boozer, with cameos from Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel. He’s never had one quite like Deron Rippey, the subject of the Duke Chronicle’s latest new player profile. Rippey is more […]
Duke Football Season Preview: Part 2 – the Defense and Special Teams
The defensive back seven was decimated by injuries in 2025 so if one thing could change for 2026 better health would be at the top of the list. If there is a silver lining to last season’s injury cloud, it is that lots of players had to step up and in the process they gained […]
YouTube Gold: Kyrie Irving’s Best Game At Duke
Duke had an excellent chance of going undefeated in 2010-11. With a backcourt of Nolan Smith and Kyrie Irving, and a frontcourt of Kyle Singler, Mason Plumlee, Ryan Kelly, Miles Plumlee, and Seth Curry and Tyler Thornton off the bench, it was poised to be vastly better than the 2009-10 championship team. A lot of […]
Duke Recruiting: AJ Williams Reclassifies
Duke target AJ Williams was the top player in the class of ‘28 until he announced that he would reclassify to the class of ‘27 on Tuesday. As we saw in Istanbul this summer, Williams is a formidable rising talent. He’s got the potential to really be something. And at Peach Jam, he averaged 20 […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Profiles: Cameron Williams & Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje
The latest two player profiles from the Duke Chronicle are of freshmen big men Cameron Williams and Joaquim “JoJo” Boumtje Boumtje. We’ve all heard a lot about Boumtje Boumtje over the summer, but what really surprised us with the practice videos Duke has released lately is just how physically mature he is at 17 – […]
ACC Summer Roundup: Sad, Rad, And Kinda Bad
We have a minor summer ACC Roundup. First up: bad news for Miami as Marcus Allen has blown out an ACL and will miss the entire season. This is a terrible break for the kid, who just got over non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Here’s hoping he stays strong and fights his way back again. That’s just dreadful […]
YouTube Gold: Len Bias Explodes In Cameron
By 1986, two things were clear in the ACC: Len Bias was an astonishing talent bound for great things, and Duke was a program on the rise. The Blue Devils would go on to their first Final Four and national championship game under Mike Krzyzewski. It would not be their last. Bias, of course, would […]
Duke Football Season Preview: Part 1 – The Offense
When a new season approaches, it is better to focus on what you have rather than lament what you don’t have. This is especially true for Duke football fans in 2026. It is time to move forward. The first thing Duke has is coaching-staff stability. Head Coach Manny Diaz returns for his third season at […]
Duke Recruiting: A New Name Emerges
Here’s a name to put on your recruiting board, if you haven’t already: Deng Ngor. A Canadian, Ngor played a key role in beating the U.S. in the FIBA U18 AmeriCup tournament, hitting a three, and then a dunk, to put Canada over the top. He is from a Sudanese family, and as it turns […]
A Great Honor For Former Blue Devil C.B. Claiborne
This is a pretty cool story: C.B. Claiborne, the first Black player at Duke, will be honored by his hometown, and his childhood home will “will be rehabilitated and transformed into the permanent home of the Danville Research Center for African American History,” according to WSET.com. That’s quite an honor. Being the first Black player […]
YouTube Gold: Quinn Cook’s NBA Highlights
Quinn Cook became a fan favorite at Duke because he played hard, was a charismatic leader, and loved being a Blue Devil. At just 6-2, and relatively slight of build, a long NBA career was always going to be difficult. There just aren’t many small players in the NBA anymore (it’s funny to call a […]
DBR Podcast #838: Preseason Schedule, Meet Legal Chaos
Duke has its preseason schedule set, and legal chaos has added an entire class of athletes back to the player pool. Jason and Donald dissect it all on Episode 838. First off, Duke has announced their preseason schedule: a home scrimmage against Belmont on October 8th, a home preseason game against Tennessee on October 20th, […]
An Early Look At Pat Ngongba’s Draft Status
This article from SI.com’s NBA Draft page takes a look at Duke big man Patrick Ngongba and what he needs to work on. They’re correct to say that, while he’s a good athlete, he’s not elite. However, intelligence is a more valuable asset than raw athleticism. Look at some guys who have carved out nice […]
College Sports Continue To Spiral
ESPN’s Jeff Borzello has a long column up on that explores the impact of Judge Charlotte Sweeney’s decision to give every member of the 2022 class a fifth year of eligibility. First up: the NCAA will certainly appeal the decision, and might win that appeal. So it’s not a done deal yet. But for now, […]
YouTube Gold: Showtime Slim Shafts Florida
We’ve been talking about Johnny Dawkins’s clutch plays for a couple of days now, and we thought that it was time to get closer to the present and take a look at one of the great clutch plays in recent history: Isaiah Evans’s game winner last year against Florida, then the defending national champions. Duke […]
Strong Man Friday Wraps Up
This week is the final week for Duke Basketball’s Strongman Friday, and while we can’t say it looks like fun necessarily, it does look extremely productive in at least two ways. First, the obvious: these guys are all getting insanely strong. We’re not sure if anyone has transformed his body as much as Caleb Foster, […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Profile: Jacob Theodosiou
The latest new Blue Devil profiled by the Duke Chronicle is Loyola-Maryland transfer Jacob Theodosiou. A 6-4 native of Canada, he has moved around a bit, playing for Wyoming before Loyola, and now of course, he’ll finish at Duke. Here’s what the Chronicle says about him: “The guard brings a patient and polished offensive skillset […]
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