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Date 1/17 || Time 6:00 || Venue Maples Pavilion || Video ACCN If you haven’t been paying attention, Stanford’s win over UNC came as a big surprise. If you have been paying attention, you probably know that Ebuka Okorie, at a minimum, is the second-best freshman in the ACC this season. Okorie continues a recent […]
The Duke Blue Devils remain in the Bay Area on their West Coast road trip, and a date looms tomorrow against the Stanford Cardinal. Donald and Scott Rich preview the upcoming game on DBR Bites #134. Stanford is doing well this season, and they are coming off an upset win on Wednesday night against UNC. […]
Someone posted an article over the summer – no idea who or where at this point, sorry – and made an interesting argument: once you’re on the hot seat, it’s really hard to get off of it. Take Tom Crean. He was highly successful at Marquette before moving to Indiana. At IU, he had some […]
Duke fans learned a lot of the Kon Knueppel story well before the rest of the country did. Grew up in Milwaukee in a basketball family, initially preferred gaming to hoops and learned to play in his father’s men’s league. Coming from a basketball family is part of the Duke profile. You don’t have to […]
Kara Lawson’s Duke team is on an almighty heater right now. In the beginning of the season, her Blue Devils struggled and at one point lost four straight, culminating with a 93-77 loss to LSU on December 4th. They haven’t lost since. The win streak stretched to nine Thursday with a 65-58 win over Virginia. […]
The Duke Blue Devils got another win on the road, taking out the Cal Golden Bears in ACC After Dark action. Donald and Scott Rich recap everything on Episode 787. The Blue Devils had another slow start, but they were able to work hard defensively to stifle the Bears. And, they were able to control […]
This week Duke’s men are touring the conference’s western reaches. The home crowds at California and Stanford have been the sparsest among the 18 stops on the ACC circuit, although the much-hyped Blue Devils are sure to be a big draw. Stanford was stuck in neutral for the decade prior to coach Kyle Smith’s arrival […]
Projecting the NCAA Tournament Bracket before March is a fool’s errand—a necessary caveat before embarking on any discussion of “bracketology.” And yet, projecting the bracket dominates the conversation amongst college basketball fans all year round (yes, there are even “Way Too Early” projected brackets in the offseason now!), so it’s impossible to ignore. These discussions […]
We’ll have a somewhat limited ACC Roundup today since the Duke-Cal game ended at around 1:00 A.M. Thanks, TV buddies! In Wednesday’s ACC Action, in the boring game, Pitt beat Georgia Tech 89-66, SMU got a miracle against Virginia Tech to win 77-76 and Stanford came back to shock UNC 95-90. We’ve been paying attention […]
Back in 1985, the Houston Rockets owned the #1 pick in that year’s draft and they were going to take the hometown hero, Hakeem Olajuwon, and as history showed, he worked out pretty well. The Portland Trail Blazers had the #2 pick and they called Indiana coach Bob Knight to ask him about Michael Jordan. […]
As we’ve seen more than once this season, Duke was not beautiful in the first half, but the Blue Devils locked down Cal in the second, winning 71-56. The Bears played pretty well in the first half, going up 13-7 and forcing 6 turnovers early before Duke really punched back. Cal did a nice job […]
Tuesday’s games went more or less as expected. Clemson handled Boston College 74-50, Miami knocked off Notre Dame 81-69, Syracuse took care of Florida State 94-86 and Virginia beat Louisville 79-70. We weren’t sure what to expect from Louisville honestly and Mikel Brown is still out, which hurts. But Virginia shot out to a 14-0 […]
Ifeanyi Ufochukwu banged his knee up in practice recently and now it looks like he’s out for the season. He hasn’t played since the Niagara game, but it’s potentially a big deal. The 6-11 Ufochukwu accepted his role as insurance and as a practice player and he was reportedly doing a great job with the […]
The Duke-UNC rivalry has had some very intense moments over the years. The 1961 fight between Art Heyman and, well, everybody on the UNC bench was one. Heyman gleefully claimed that he hit Frank McGuire in the nuts and years later, he saw McGuire who told him, “it still hurts, Artie!” There was the Fred […]
Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks hosted the Brooklyn Nets Monday night and it was another solid game for the rookie from Duke. Dallas is currently without Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively, who looks to be out for the season after surgery, so that puts a lot of pressure on the […]
The Duke Blue Devils were able to hold off the SMU Mustangs, winning 82-75 on Saturday afternoon to move to 15-1 on the season and 4-0 in the ACC. Donald and Scott Rich recap everything about a perplexing game on Episode 786. The Blue Devils did great in certain aspects defensively, and got some great […]
The Duke Blue Devils are headed west for a long road trip in California. They begin with a game against the Cal Golden Bears on Wednesday night. Donald and Scott Rich preview ACC After Dark on DBR Bites #133. Cal has a decent record, but is coming off a series of road losses to UVA […]
Date 1/14 || Time 11:00 || Venue Haas Pavilion || Video ACC Network Duke enters the ACC era of West Coast travel this week with a trip to the Bay Area to take on Cal and Stanford. Cal is first and some of y’all are gonna need a nap because this one starts at 11:00 […]
The next time a prominent coach with a long record of success decides to retire, pseudo-sages will lament the impossible task confronting his or her successor. That’s been an article of faith ever since Gene Bartow replaced John Wooden at UCLA for the 1975-76 season. Bartow was essentially driven from the job as a failure […]
Four games on tap Tuesday and our TV overlords serve up the best one first as Virginia visits Louisville, also BC at Clemson, Miami at Notre Dame, and Florida State at Syracuse. Under Tony Bennett, Virginia basically owned Louisville, and particularly Rick Pitino. One of the funniest things of the Bennett era was that every […]
When Patrick Ewing was coming up in the early 1990’s, no one fully understood how good he was. There was no YouTube, no social media, no clips, no hype tapes. People knew he was going to be good, but no one understood just how good. When Ewing got to Georgetown, they figured it out in […]
Del Harris had a long career in coaching and has been around basketball for his entire life, so when he ventures an opinion, people tend to listen. And what he told The Sporting News about Duke product Cooper Flagg will have people talking. Here’s what he said: “Cooper is the best I’ve actually seen since […]
In 1987, Duke and Maryland, then an ACC team, were heading in opposite directions. Duke had made the championship game the previous season. It had lost four starters but was still a Top 15 team. The previous summer, the night of the NBA Draft, Maryland’s Len Bias had died of a cocaine overdose after going […]
It took some doing, but Duke won Game 2 of the California trip, knocking off Stanford 67-60 and extending the win streak to eight games. The game started slow with Stanford taking a 15-12 lead after the first quarter but Duke rallied to take a 31-28 lead at the half. The Blue Devils led at […]
The Duke Blue Devils were able to hold off the SMU Mustangs, winning 82-75 on Saturday afternoon to move to 15-1 on the season and 4-0 in the ACC. Donald and Scott Rich recap everything about a perplexing game on Episode 786. The Blue Devils did great in certain aspects defensively, and got some great […]