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Date 12/20 || Time 8:00 || Venue Madison Square Garden || Video ESPN With the exception of Michigan on February 21st, Duke will finish off non-conference play on Saturday with Texas Tech in Madison Square Garden. Why the Garden? Well, first because Duke has a lot of alum in the area. They call it Cameron […]
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Only two games on Friday and neither one is particularly promising: Florida State hosts Mississippi Valley State and Cal welcomes Morgan State. ESPN lists FSU as a 39.5 point favorite and Cal is favored by 27.5. The Delta Devils are just 1-10, but they did take Utah Tech to double overtime and lost to Manhattan […]
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At his worst, no one could stand Bob Knight. He alienated friends, players and bullied people who cared about him. That wasn’t his only side though, because Knight also was brilliant, well educated and had a tremendous sense of humor. This was demonstrated quite often but very well at this roast of Joe B. Hall. […]
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Duke has struggled this season, and was just 4-6 coming into Thursday’s game against South Dakota State. After losing four straight, the Blue Devils got a solid win at Virginia Tech and got another against the Jackrabbits Thursday, winning 97-54. The game was close for most of the first quarter with South Dakota State down […]
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The last power conference test for Duke before we embark on the ACC schedule will be Saturday in MSG and the Duke Basketball Roundup is here to get you ready for the contest with Texas Tech. Jason and Donald have all the details including TTech’s shooter who doesn’t take 2-point FGs, the unexpectedly close game […]
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A look at team free throw shooting shared here earlier this season revealed remarkable across-the-board efficiency, with virtually every ACC squad converting at least 70 percent of its foul shots for several years now. This proclivity included 17 of 18 league teams in 2025, the exception being 17-17 Georgia Tech at .687 on 627 free […]
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In Wednesday’s ACC Action, Wake Forest dodged an upset by Longwood 71-68. Syracuse trumped Mercyhurst 76-62, Pitt sunk Binghamton 103-63, NC State clobbered Texas Southern 108-72 and Stanford took care of UT Arlington 76-60. All of these are exam/Holiday games and there is usually some rust to knock off. Nonetheless, there were serious issues in […]
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Remember this past spring when NC State fired Kevin Keatts and fans made a big push to hire Will Wade away from McNeese State? Remember the cockiness he had when he took the job? How he promised, basically, to revolutionize Wolfpack basketball? He made some rather explicit promises…like this one: “Our time is now…When that […]
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Well, that was an interesting game. On Episode 780, we recap the Duke win over Lipscomb where the theme was turnovers and sloppy play. Now, there was still some good from this game, and in a 24-point win, we still lead with it. Jon Scheyer became the fastest ACC coach to 100 wins, we saw […]
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At some point, you’d think people who make a living in basketball would figure this out: intelligence can compensate for athleticism. The classic examples are Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, but there are others: Steve Kerr, Don Nelson, Draymond Green, Charles Oakley, Stephen Curry and, most recently, Kon Knueppel. Knueppel is particularly relevant here because […]
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In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Louisville fell at Tennessee 82-63, UNC dismissed East Tennessee State 77-58, Dayton beat Florida State 97-69, Clemson got by South Carolina 68-61, Miami stung FIU 98-81 and Georgia Tech slipped by Marist, 87-76. Louisville had to go without star freshman Mikel Brown, who was out with a back issue. However, the […]
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For most of the junior league’s life span, the NBA and ABA had a testy relationship. The ABA did a lot of things the NBA did not like at all, like introducing the three point shot and having a flashier, fun focused game compared to the NBA’s stodgier, walk-it-up style. Plus the ABA really irritated […]
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It was a tale of two halves. Well, more specifically, Jon Scheyer’s 100th win as Duke’s head coach was a tale of turnovers in two halves. In the first half against Lipscomb, Duke seemed totally disjointed and tossed the ball away constantly, racking up 16 before the break, which was somewhat shocking for a team […]
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We’ve only heard excerpts so far, but this is a fun episode of the Brotherhood Podcast. A couple of high points: Caleb Foster and Isaiah Evans laugh about Michigan State taunting Cameron Boozer with the weak “Eff Cam Boozer,” saying they knew it was going to get him going – and it did. Then there’s […]
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In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Louisville goes to Tennessee, Florida State visits Dayton, Clemson welcomes the hated Gamecocks, FIU buses over to Miami, Marist jets down to Georgia Tech and East Tennessee drops in on the Heels. The highlight here is obviously #11 Louisville visiting the #20 Vols. Tennessee hasn’t been great so far, but it’s […]
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Cooper Flagg, as most Duke fans probably know, got off to a bit of a slow start as an NBA rookie. The Mavericks started him off at point guard and while he did okay there, it was asking a lot of an 18-year-0ld rookie and people started to say he was overrated. They’re not saying […]
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Date 12/16 || Time 6:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ACC Network We’ll be the first to admit we don’t now much about Lipscomb. The Bisons play in the ASUN and they’re only about two miles down the road from Belmont, which means they’re probably the closest rivals in the nation. Lipscomb is […]
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Right now, as members of the 2025-26 Duke men’s squad pause to take finals and catch their collective breath, it’s worth taking a look at what they’ve accomplished in their first 10 games of the season. Much is rightly made of Duke’s double-figure wins, a start matched among few other D-1 programs. Much is also […]
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In Sunday’s ACC Action, Virginia Tech hammered Maryland Eastern Shore 82-53 and Wake Forest smoked Queens 111-73. Neither was a surprise, obviously. Neoklis Avdalas, who played hurt for a while, seems to be better now. He scored 16 here and has 46 in his last two games. Amani Hansberry seems to be settling in nicely […]
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By 1972, the NBA, officially founded in 1949, had matured. In 1972, the 22nd All-Star game took place and while it was still very old-school, you could see things starting to change. Dave Cowens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were playing. The Boston Celtics had become John Havlicek’s team; he was here too. Connie Hawkins, who had […]
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With the exam break wrapping up, Duke hoops turns its attention to the Lipscomb Bisons out of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Lipscomb is probably the best non-power conference team Duke will face this season and is coming off a year in which they won their league and made the NCAA tourney as a #14 seed. […]
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We haven’t heard as much about Duke rookie Khaman Maluach as we have about Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel or even second-round picks Tyrese Proctor and Sion James. It’s not surprising: everyone understood that Maluach is still raw. So it’s also not surprising that, like a lot of rookies, he’s spending some time in the G-League. […]
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In Saturday’s ACC Action, Louisville hammered Memphis 99-73, UNC beat South Carolina Upstate 80-62, UMass thrashed Florida State 103-95, Miami took care of UL Monroe 104-79, Notre Dame aced the Evansville test 82-58, Clemson got by Mercer 70-63, Hofstra punked Syracuse 70-69, Villanova dismissed Pitt 79-61, Cal took out Northwestern State 79-70, Stanford slipped by […]
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Before injuries devastated his career and Grant Hill earned respect for working through things that would have forced most normal people to give up, he was one of the greatest talents the game has ever seen. When he was still with the Detroit Pistons, Hill was widely seen as the eventual successor to Michael Jordan’s […]
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As winter arrives, children across the world race to fit in enough good deeds to get on Santa’s nice list—at least, that’s what the yearly inundation of holiday movies tells us. It seems, though, that too many college coaches have missed those reruns this year. High level college coaches are not known for their scruples […]
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