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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Date 12/31 || Time 4:00 || Venue Basketball Paradise || Video ACCN Duke gets back to business on New Year’s Eve after being upset by Texas Tech in New York as Georgia Tech comes to Cameron. Georgia Tech is 9-4 and has been somewhat erratic. Their losses have been to Georgia, then Depaul, Drake and […]
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They migrate annually now from east to west, about half of the members going one year, the others the next in a pilgrimage of murky purpose beyond the obvious goals of winning games and making money. That Bay Area programs are part of the ever more absurdly-named Atlantic Coast Conference, an east coast fixture for […]
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On Tuesday, ACC play starts in earnest with Florida State at UNC, Pitt at Miami, Louisville at Cal and Notre Dame at Stanford. Obviously there’s no way that Florida State should compete with UNC. FSU is in a serious rebuild while UNC has put together a pretty solid roster, not least of all up front […]
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The first NCAA tournament started in 1939 and was second banana to the NIT, which started the year before in New York City. One team, Bradley, turned down the NCAA for the NIT, something that would soon become unimaginable (the NIT retained some prestige well into the 1970’s, but NCAA expansion eventually drained off the […]
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Duke Basketball is back after an 11-day layoff, and they get back to business on New Year’s Eve against Georgia Tech. We preview the first ACC contest of the 2025-26 season on DBR Bites 128. Georgia Tech has struggled this season despite its 9-4 record, and they haven’t had a win against a good team […]
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There are so many high points in Duke Basketball history that it’s hard to remember everything and easy to forget stuff. Duke hung a banner in Cameron to commemorate Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,000th win, but do you remember when that happened? Who the opponent was? Where that game was? See what we mean? Assuming you don’t […]
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After a dreadful five-game stretch that saw Duke go 1-4 and fall to 3-6, the Blue Devils have now won four straight and Sunday’s win over Syracuse put them back over .500. And like the last three wins, this one was solid too with Duke prevailing 71-51, and on the road too. Duke struggled a […]
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Coming off the Christmas Break there is plenty for the Duke Basketball Roundup to discuss. First up on their plate is a preview of the Sun Bowl against Arizona State. Listen in to find out which Blue Devils and which Sun Devils will be actually suit up and play in the bowl game. After the […]
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ACC play resumes after the Christmas break with three non-conference games, none of them remotely interesting on the surface: Boston College plays the entity known as LeMoyne,Georgia Tech gets traditional patsy Florida A&M and SMU sees Cal State-Fullerton. We might regret this, but: who the hell is LeMoyne? Turns out they’re in DeWitt, New York […]
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Some of you will remember this and some won’t, but back in 1997, PJ Carlesimo and Latrell Sprewell had an infamous run-in when Sprewell was playing for the Golden State Warriors and Carlesimo was his coach. Brian Shaw was on the team at the time and in this interview with Paul George, he talks about […]
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As we all saw Friday, former Blue Devil Kon Knueppel suffered his first injury as a professional, rolling his ankle in the first quarter against the Orlando Magic. It looked pretty bad but as it turns out, it certainly could have been worse. The X-rays didn’t reveal any structural damage, which is good news. Of […]
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Duke (8-5) heads to El Paso, TX to face Arizona State (8-4) in the 92nd Sun Bowl on Wednesday December 31, 2025 at 2 pm EST. Television coverage is provided by CBS. The Blue Devils are currently favored by three points. Duke is riding a three game win streak with wins over North Carolina, Wake […]
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Former Blue Devil Cooper Flagg continues to dazzle as he continues his first circuit around the NBA. On Christmas Day, the Dallas Mavericks played at Golden State and Flagg again showed his unusually advanced game. He finished with 27 points (13-21/1-3), 6 rebounds, 5 assists and a block. He got a positive review from future […]
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Ja Morant has been an amazing basketball player but he has caused issues for the Memphis Grizzlies since arriving via the draft in 2019. He got in big trouble with the league over guns and gun imagery and more recently doubts have come up about his long-term relationship with the Grizzlies. In short, in many […]
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There was a bit of a scary moment for former Blue Devil Kon Knueppel against the Orlando Magic as he came down hard on his ankle and had to leave the game. He got an X ray and fortunately it doesn’t look too bad. It’s too soon to know what will come of this but […]
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Look, let’s face it: while Duke made the Final Four last spring, the ACC regular season, and most of the tournament too, sucked. The conference was just basically helpless. Almost everyone sucked. Only Clemson was a real, consistent threat. It’s going to be very different this year. UNC is back on track, Louisville is looking […]
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