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What a game! Duke overcomes a terrible first half and comes back to win it in the second as they defeat Louisville on the road 84-73. With Donald and Scott Rich on hand and Jason recording from a lavatory 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, we just give out the vibes on Episode 784! Caleb Foster […]
Louisville won the first half but Duke won the second and with that, the game, winning 84-73. The first half against Louisville really didn’t start very well for Duke as Ryan Conwell hit his first three three point attempts and finished the half with four. Louisville was ridiculous from behind the line. Backup big man […]
Date 1/6 || Time 7:00 || Venue KFC Yum! Center || Video ESPN Next up for Duke is a date with Louisville in the Yum! Center, and that’s not as easy as it used to be. After Rick Pitino was forced out in 2017 following one too many scandals, David Padgett had a year as […]
The ACC Network was occupied, its scheduled showing of the ACC opener between Duke and Georgia Tech delayed by a rivalry game within the state of Virginia. UVa, ranked #21 in the nation at the time, traveled to Virginia Tech to engage in the 162nd meeting between the public universities dating to 1915. By the […]
No one playing on Tuesday (other than the highlight game of Duke-Louisville) has less than five losses, but both games have compelling storylines. In the 7:00 game between Syracuse and Georgia Tech, Naithan George returns to Atlanta, which should be interesting. Syracuse hasn’t played a true road game yet, believe it or not and Georgia […]
The NBA started in the late 1940’s, so if you take the league’s official starting point as 1946, with the BAA which merged with the NBL to make the NBA, it is 79 now and will hit 80 later in the year, presumably at the start of next season. That’s a long time and incorporates […]
After a pair of wins against the bottom tier of the ACC Duke faces a much different conference rival on Tuesday. The Blue Devils will face the team everyone says is the second best in the league, the Louisville Cardinals. One key question for this game is the health of superstar freshman PG Mikel Brown, […]
For 10 games, Duke looked the part of a top-tier National Championship contender. Over the last four games, the Blue Devils have looked more like a team whose flaws might keep them from such lofty expectations. Who is Duke really? The Blue Devils’ next big test—at Louisville Tuesday night—will go a long way towards establishing […]
Duke won its sixth straight game with Sunday’s 82-68 win over #18 Notre Dame. Duke took control early and while Notre Dame only used six players, Duke only went seven deep, so it’s not really that big of a difference. Depth wasn’t an issue when Duke ripped off a 13-0 run in the first quarter. […]
Duke is now 2-0 in the ACC and 13-1 on the season after winning their first ACC road game of the season against Florida State. Donald and Jason recap the win on Episode 783! The Blue Devils had some great shooting, especially from the free throw line, to defeat the Seminoles, who also shot well […]
Ideally, any basketball coach would like to have at least one quality big man, some long defenders, some guys who can shoot and someone to run the team – a coach on the floor as people like to call it. Those are ideals but just as in life, basketball rosters are rarely ideal and one […]
If people had questions about the ACC being back, Saturday should have sorted that out. Aside from the close Duke-Florida State game, Virginia clubbed NC State, 76-61, Wake first slipped by Virginia Tech 81-78, Clemson escaped Pitt 73-68, Georgia Tech got by BC 65-53 and SMU upset UNC 97-83. It’s hard to understand what happened […]
When Leon Redbone showed up on the music scene in the early 1970’s, no one knew quite what to make of him. Bob Dylan said he could be anywhere from 25-70 and that if he started a label he would certainly sign him. Redbone, who was born in Cyprus before ultimately moving to Canada with […]
Welcome back, ACC. We missed you. Sort of. Over the last few years and especially last year, the conference has been pretty weak but in Duke’s first two games, first against Georgia Tech and then Saturday against Florida State, two of the weaker teams in recent years played very, very well, with both giving the […]
Sometimes being wrong isn’t the worst thing in the world. Take Louisville at Stanford. While we have a healthy respect for Kyle Smith though. He’s clearly a very sharp guy and he’s likely to get as much as possible out of his analytics approach. Still, we didn’t think Stanford had much of a chance here. […]
The coolest thing anyone on Duke’s team last year said was when someone asked Cooper Flagg what he would take to a desert island. He said “some food, a gun…Kon Knueppel.” They are very good friends and were roommates at Duke. Now, they’re the two primary candidates for NBA Rookie of the Year and now, […]
We talk about this on ACC Roundup today but it’s such a striking, strange if not shocking end to that game that it deserves more attention. The Irish were up 71-68 with 9.9 to play. Cal brought the ball in and Dai Dai Ames took it up court. Logan Imes was pressuring him but appeared […]
Duke hosted Boston College on Thursday and it was a blowout, with Duke winning 100-49. After a tough start to the season, the Blue Devils have now won five straight, none of them at all close. Duke forced 20 turnovers and Boston College hit just 4-21 of their three point attempts (19%) and 21-59 overall […]
Time to hit the road. Duke travels to Tally this weekend to take on the Florida St. Seminoles, hoping to get back to being the team they were just a few weeks ago. Duke has had some trouble with Florida State in the past so the Duke Basketball Roundup is here with all the details […]
Date 1/3 || Time 3:45 || Venue Donald L. Tucker Civic Center || Video CBS Duke travels to Tallahassee Saturday to take on the new-look Florida State Seminoles. Long-time coach Leonard Hamilton retired after last season and former ‘Nole Luke Loucks was hired to rebuild the program. Hamilton had a solid run at FSU, particularly […]
Two games on tap Friday as Louisville and Notre Dame change West Coast dance partners after both won on Tuesday with Louisville hammering Cal and the Irish winning a Tony Bennett special against Stanford, 47-40. It’s interesting that there is a three-day break between games, but it is still between semesters. We don’t imagine that […]
In this clip from Iman Shumpert’s show, Baron Davis and Iman Shumpert discuss whether or not Larry Bird could play in today’s game Davis is emphatic in his belief that Bird would be dominant in today’s game while Shumpert asks if Bird could guard Kevin Durant. It’s always an interesting question but as we’ve mentioned […]
Happy New Year! Duke Men’s Basketball closed out 2025 with a win over Georgia Tech to open up ACC play. We recap the victory on Episode 782. The Blue Devils had to tough it out against a Georgia Tech team that was hitting a ton of shots. But we get into the good, which included […]
Duke adherents and at-large observers are starting to look askance at a singular strength of this year’s squad. The problem, as they see it, is that the Blue Devils rely heavily on the impressive scoring of one player, Cameron Boozer. Too heavily, by some estimations, although opposing defenses seem largely unable to exploit that lopsided […]
Back in Shane Battier’s day, Duke briefly fell out of first place in the ACC and a reporter asked him how it felt to get it back. Battier said: “normal.” That’s kind of how it feels as Duke moves back to #1 in the high school recruiting race with the commitment of Deron Rippey Tuesday […]