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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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In Saturday’s ACC Action, Boston College gave Louisville a fine game, losing 75-62, Virginia thumped Stanford 70-55, Syracuse took Pitt 83-72, Miami rolled past Georgia Tech 91-81, NC State laid waste to FSU 113-69, Virginia Tech slipped by Cal 78-75, Clemson took care of Notre Dame 76-61 and Wake Forest pushed UNC to the final […]
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Trevor Keels has been somewhat quiet since leaving Duke in 2022 as a second-round draft pick of the New York Knicks. He probably could have used some more time in Durham but that was his decision and he’s still grinding away, trying to get to the league. His last G-League performance with the Sioux Falls […]
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Duke has had some amazing defenders over the years. On Saturday, we saw a brilliant first half by Dame Sarr. In our estimation, it was the best half of defense by a Duke player since Tre Jones personally dismantled Syracuse for the first 5:30 before he injured his shoulder. Seriously. We’ve never seen a guard […]
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Duke’s 82-75 win over SMU was not a work of art by any means, but it was notable for one thing in particular, and that was Dame Sarr’s first half defense, which was magnificent. Sarr put on a defensive performance in that half which was as fine as any we’ve seen since Tre Young personally […]
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In Saturday’s ACC Action, Boston College visits Louisville, Georgia Tech jets down to Miami, NC State and Florida State tangle in Tallahassee, Syracuse is at Pitt, Stanford checks in at Virginia, Cal is at Virginia Tech, Wake Forest buses down to UNC and Clemson visits Notre Dame. We don’t expect BC will have much of […]
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You know that tag line the Situational Ethics Conference likes to use – It Just Means More? Well, maybe…maybe not. According to Outkick.com, “The bowl season, including the College Football Playoff, has been a complete disaster, from start to finish. With the Ole Miss loss to Miami on Thursday night, the conference fell to 1-8 against non-SEC Power […]
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In our opinion, Duke has had four points guards who stand above the rest: Tommy Amaker, Bobby Hurley, Jon Scheyer and Tyus Jones. The first three were at Duke for four years, but Jones of course was only here for one year, which resulted in the 2015 national championship. At Duke, he quickly established himself […]
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Date 1/10|| Time 2:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ESPN Now in its second season as a member of the All-Coast ACC, SMU is getting around to some of the more challenging environments it didn’t see last season. On Wednesday, the Mustangs were introduced to the dubious pleasures of Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum, where […]
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Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel continue to have tremendous rookie seasons in the NBA. In Flagg’s latest game against Utah, Dallas’s rookie prize just missed his first triple double, with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. He’s also apparently considering entering the NBA Dunk Contest, which would be fun to watch (fellow Maverick and […]
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Duke has had some beautiful basketball teams over the years, but nothing really tops the 1991-92 group. With a core of Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, Thomas Hill and Brian Davis, that team was the first to get back-to-back national championships since the Bill Walton era at UCLA. In this video, you get some […]
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Going into the fourth quarter, it didn’t seem likely that Duke’s six-game win streak would continue, but the Blue Devils that came back from 10 down to pick up its 7th straight win, 78-74 on the road at Cal. Ariana Robinson had a monster first half for Duke with 20 points, helping the Blue Devils […]
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Duke is back in the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday to face the SMU Mustangs in ACC play. Donald and Scott help preview the game on DBR Bites #132! SMU is a solid team even as they enter Cameron fresh off a loss at Littlejohn Coliseum to Clemson. They’re led by Boopie […]
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Don’t get used to it. Or, to put it in more positive terms, enjoy it while you can. The statistical dimensions of what Cameron Boozer has achieved so far this season are seldom matched, certainly not on any squad with a variety of talented players. Even if it did happen with a Duke squad that […]
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In Wednesday’s ACC Action, Virginia canned Cal 84-60, Clemson held on against SMU 74-70, Miami survived Wake Forest 81-77 and Stanford just nipped Virginia Tech 69-68. The Hokies set limiting turnovers as a goal and they accomplished that. Too bad they couldn’t limit Stanford’s freshman star Ebuka Okorie (that just auto-corrected to Ebuka Okra), who […]
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So someone made a request on X to post Duke highlights of Nolan Smith and that wish was granted. When he was at Duke, Smith improved dramatically. Along with Jon Scheyer, he formed one of Duke’s more underrated backcourts. We still talk about the Johnny Dawkins/Tommy Amaker backcourt, the Bobby Hurley/Thomas Hill backcourt and the […]
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In the second half of Duke’s win over Louisville, the Blue Devils really cranked up the defense. Duke just turned off all the options against Pat Kelsey’s three point-centric machine like a boa constrictor slowly choking out a Cardinal. At a certain point, Louisville was still there, but functionally hopeless. A lot of it had […]
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