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The Duke Blue Devils demolished the Stanford Cardinal 80-50 on Saturday evening. Donald and Scott Rich return to recap everything on Episode 788. Duke got it done by dominating the paint and with suffocating defense. We go through all the things that the Blue Devils did well to smother Stanford. They took Ebuka Okorie out […]
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In Saturday’s ACC Action, Virginia slipped by SMU 72-68, Louisville hammered Pitt 100-59, Clemson dispatched Miami 69-59, Virginia Tech took down Notre Dame 89-76, Georgia Tech surprised NC State 78-74, BC knocked off Syracuse in overtime 81-73 and Wake Forest survived Florida State 69-68. Oh, and Cal slapped UNC around for most of the game […]
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A while back, probably in 2009 if memory serves, we got a tour of Duke’s practice facility. It was really nice in so many ways, highly impressive. When we got to the court, there was a guy putting up shots we didn’t recognize at first, but it was Kyle Singler. He was radically thinner than […]
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Red Auerbach put together a phenomenal dynasty in Boston, starting in 1956 when he schemed and maneuvered to land Bill Russell. But Russell, as great as he was, couldn’t win titles on his own, and so Auerbach put pieces around him to keep his team winning. Bill Sharman and Bob Cousy were already there, but […]
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You know those slow starts we’ve seen from Duke this season? Didn’t happen at Stanford as Duke started hot and won, 80-50. Duke’s size and talent presented huge problems for the Cardinal, especially in the first half. Dame Sarr threw a blanket over precocious freshman Ebuka Okorie, limiting him to 7 points before the break. […]
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In Saturday’s ACC Action, Virginia visits SMU, Notre Dame and Virginia Tech tangle, Georgia Tech drops in on the Wolfpack, Syracuse and BC play in Beantown, Miami jets up to Clemson, Wake Forest plays Florida State, Louisville stops off at the Zoo and Duke and UNC wrap up the Bay trip with Stanford and Cal […]
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In retrospect, a lot of ‘6o’s music was just a waste of time. Not the great ones – the Beatles, Dylan, the Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Motown, the Band – those have stood the test of time. But some of it was just dreadful. Mostly it was the cheesier pop music or the psychedelic stuff […]
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What a gut punch! With just hours before the window closed, Duke quarterback Darian Mensah has decided to enter the transfer portal, and in all likelihood will be headed to play for Miami. It’s a short emergency DBR Bites #135 as Donald flies solo to discuss it for a few minutes. Of course, Donald has […]
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After saying he planned to return, Duke quarterback Darian Mensah changed his mind at the last moment and has entered the transfer portal. This is despite signing a two-year contract with the Blue Devils. Not that it would necessarily be a good idea, but now that we’re in the business era of football, a contract […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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