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Latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview: Drew Scharnowski
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou || Sebastian Wilkins || Bryson Howard The latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview is of Belmont transfer Drew Scharnowski. At 6-10 and 240, Scharnowski probably is more powerful than anyone else on the team, with the possible exception of Pat Ngongba. Our money is on Scharnowski, though. In some of the preseason video, […]
Twitter Gold: A Duke Trivia Prodigy
We’re pretty much Grade A Duke fans around here, but nobody knows everything. However, this guy comes close. Imagine if you had a near-encyclopedic recall of Blue Devils in the NBA. Not only that, you could name every team’s leading career scorer from Duke. That’s a big ask. When this guy started to go through […]
Duke Recruiting: Crystal Balls For A Five-Star Target
Recruiting is a funny business sometimes. It always has been, but today, with so many people following it online, and so many services competing, it’s really hard to know what to think. Still, there are some things that are useful and insightful, and one that tends to more or less correlate with reality is the […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview: Bryson Howard
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou || Sebastian Wilkins The latest Chronicle preview is of freshman Bryson Howard, and since people started seeing Duke practice, there’s been a significant buzz about Howard. At 6-4, he’s got good size for a guard. He’s also very long-armed and athletic, and people who have seen him play have raved […]
Twitter Gold: Joker Gets A Career Highlight Pass
Denver Nugget star Nikola Jokic often gets compared to Larry Bird, which is only partly fair. The funny part is, when people talk about Bird, they often suggest that he would be too slow to play in today’s NBA, but Jokic is far slower than Bird ever was, and he’s doing just fine. The primary […]
DBR Podcast #854: Deron Dynamic as Duke Dazzles At Countdown
Countdown to Craziness was fantastic! We recap the great weekend as Duke Basketball’s preseason kicks off with Episode 854. The weekend was terrific, but the centerpiece was the action on Coach K Court as both the men’s and women’s team played in intrasquad scrimmages. We start out by dissecting the men’s game and who stood […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview: Sebastian Wilkins
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou The latest Duke Chronicle player preview is of Sebastian Wilkins. We only got to see him during last year’s Countdown to Craziness, which isn’t much to go on. However, he’s had a year to mature. He runs well, he’s athletic, and he should be an excellent […]
YouTube Gold: JJ Redick Nukes UNC In Chapel Hill
Duke fans (yes, we’re speaking for all of us) can understand why players like Christian Laettner and JJ Redick got on people’s nerves. Guys like that would get on our nerves too if Duke had to play against them. But fortunately, Duke never had to do that, and we loved them both. Both of them […]
Countdown To Craziness Was Revealing
Duke Basketball made its public debut in Saturday’s Countdown to Craziness, as Team White won, 29-24, on a game-winning three by Deron Rippey (see link below for that play). The second play of the game was very encouraging, as Dame Sarr drove to the basket and hit a layup. As you may recall, he struggled […]
Countdown To Craziness Time!
You won’t see this very often, but in Saturday’s Countdown to Craziness, Duke will bring in a Top 20 team to take on the Blue Devils. And that team is… also the Blue Devils. Check out the rosters: BLUE WHITE That’s completely insane. We’d have to go with the White team, but Sarr might be […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Previews: Maxime Meyer & Jacob Theodosiou
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis The Duke Chronicle’s next two player profiles are up, and these are of Jacob Theodosiou and Maxime Meyer. Meyer is a Canadian who was rated a 4-star prospect, for what it’s worth. He’s going to be behind Pat Ngongba, Cameron Williams, and JoJo Boumtje Boumtje for now, but his long-term potential is […]
YouTube Gold: Celtics vs. Sixers, 1980 Eastern Conference Finals
The 1980s were defined by the Larry Bird-Magic Johnson rivalry, as those two greats led the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers to repeated trips to the Finals. For the Celtics though, their first great challenge in the early part of the 1980s was always the Philadelphia 76ers. By 1980, the Sixers had almost all […]
Duke Recruiting: More On Luke Paul
With Luke Paul’s sudden commitment to Duke, we thought we’d add a few more links, and some video, too. All of that is below, and you’ll see some wonderful passes, and also a guy who knows how to shoot. But the best thing we’ve seen is this play. Why? Because on this play, he has […]
Schedule Intel: Longhorns Incoming?
It’s a bit early, and nothing has been signed yet, but Texas coach Sean Miller says the Longhorns are close to scheduling a game with Duke next season. The teams last played in 2025-26 in Charlotte. Intriguingly, he says that the game might be played internationally, with Miller saying “[w]e’re going to play Duke, we’re […]
Twitter Gold: Paul Simon Takes On Basketball Legend Connie Hawkins
On Saturday Night Live, the current great spot, legendary really, is when the Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che write jokes for each other, which is genuinely brilliant because that allows each to write jokes for the other that they would never tell on their own. It allows the audience to laugh at […]
DBR Podcast #853: Let The Countdown Begin!
We’re back with Episode 853 as we get ready for the official start of Duke Basketball with Countdown to Craziness! Countdown always marks the official start of the preseason, and Donald and Jason couldn’t be more excited for all the festivities. Of course, it all begins on Friday with the annual Dribble for Victory over […]
Duke Recruiting: Jon Scheyer Reels In A Promising Talent
Duke landed a surprise commitment today from Australian Luke Paul. A 6-6 point guard, Paul is prized for his passing. He told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst that “[t]he family aspect of the program appealed to me. I jumped on the call with Coach Scheyer and the rest of the coaching staff, and really got the feeling […]
Scheyer’s Three-Point Shooters
It seems a fairly straightforward step to determine which double-figure scorers achieved the highest percentage of their points from beyond the arc while at Duke. Go ahead — guess. We’ll limit the universe of possibilities to the Jon Scheyer era, that is, the past four seasons. In case memory of their Duke years (or year) […]
Duke Chronicle Player Profiles: Nick Arnold & Brock Davis
The Duke Chronicle is starting its annual review of players, and the first two are Nick Arnold and Brock Davis. Arnold was recruited as a preferred walk-on, and before he’s done, he’ll become a beloved Dukie. Why? Because, from all reports, he’s relentless and plays hard as hell. He’ll do that in practice first, obviously, […]
Twitter Gold:The Hooping Knueppel Brothers
You have to give it to the Knueppel family of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because they really seem to have their priorities in order. When Kon was at Duke, he always seemed immensely level-headed. He played hard, definitely, but there was never a sense that he might get angry or out of control. He would just keep […]
Duke’s Basketball Schedule Is Going To Be Brutal
As the college basketball season draws ever closer, the traditional fun of seeding the tournament field and predicting the tournament is well underway. This article from Busting Brackets looks at 25 teams that have a realistic shot at the Final Four. So…who do they have on their list? Here we go: what jumps out here […]
An Older Teammate Praises Memphis Grizzly Cameron Boozer
It wasn’t a lot of fun for Duke to play against Ty Jerome when he was at Virginia, but that guy was a winner. He understood Tony Bennett’s system perfectly and led his team brilliantly. As it has turned out, he’s become valuable in the NBA too. He’s expected to start for the Memphis Grizzlies, […]
YouTube Gold: Young Julius Erving Stunned The Basketball World
When rookie Julius Erving arrived in Norfolk in 1971, to play for the Virginia Squires, no one understood what was about to happen. And when we say no one, that includes his UMass teammates, who were also in shock, because in the ABA, Erving proved to be a basketball revolutionary. In this video, Erving describes […]
DBR Podcast #852: Coach Scheyer Joins The Pod!
We teased that something special was coming this week, and here it is! On Episode 852, Duke Men’s Basketball head coach Jon Scheyer joins the pod to talk to Donald and Jason on a number of topics! We break our conversation down into several topics, from roster construction and scheduling to this year’s team and […]
The ACC And The Final Four
Based on the historical record, the ACC is due. Arguably, overdue. Not that long ago the ACC was a regular supplier of Final Four entrants and NCAA champions. Fifteen ACC representatives captured national titles between the start of the conference in 1953-54 through UVa’s triumph in ’19. That’s an average of better than once every […]
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