CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami guard Isaiah Wong pointed to the crowd, waving his arms, asking for noise, asking for the celebration to start. The lead, at that point, was 3-0. Didn’t matter. From start […]
DURHAM — As Duke’s players ran back to the locker room following a 75-73 home win over Wake Forest, they joked among themselves about the Blue Devils’ “revenge tour.” While no one would give specifics […]
The last time Duke and North Carolina played, it was the top story in sports for an entire week. The rivalry traveled to its largest stage ever, meeting in New Orleans on April 2 in […]
The holidays mean a transition in the college basketball season. With the new year, and new semester for 19 Division 1 colleges in North Carolina, comes conference play. Some teams in the state have already […]
WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest had survived close games this season, even twice winning on a last-second shot. It was enough to have coach Steve Forbes deliver a message that resonated before playing No. 14 Duke. […]
DURHAM — Duke entered this season with just one returning player who had logged significant time for the Blue Devils — Jeremy Roach. He entered the season with 545 of Duke’s 566 returning points (Jaylen […]
DURHAM — Even for a storied program like Duke, there was another historical footnote Saturday. Tyrese Proctor and Dariq Whitehead each scored 15 points and the 15th-ranked Blue Devils rolled past Maryland-Eastern Shore 82-55 while […]
DURHAM — Duke bounced back from a blowout loss at the hands of one Big Ten team with a hard-fought win over another team from that conference. The Blue Devils lost to Purdue in the […]
DURHAM — The Duke Blue Devils closed the first week of the 2022-23 season by welcoming perhaps the best player on their roster. Dereck Lively II, the 7-foot-1 five-star freshman who was voted the ACC […]
DURHAM — Jeremy Roach scored 16 first-half points to help seventh-ranked Duke open Jon Scheyer’s coaching tenure with a 71-44 win over Jacksonville on Monday night. Freshman Mark Mitchell had a team-high 18 points for […]
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