The 2022-23 college basketball season got underway Monday, but it’s never too early to do a hot seat check on the sidelines across North Carolina. While much of the talk this season will be about […]
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 […]
DURHAM — For more than a decade, Duke has been known for offseason roster turmoil. As the Blue Devils embraced the one-and-done era in college basketball, the team had to rebuild, seemingly from scratch, each […]
UNC surprised just about everyone last year when a talented team led by first-year coach Hubert Davis parlayed a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament into a run to the national title game. The […]
DURHAM — If there’s one thing a point guard wants to avoid, it’s the turnover. Unfortunately for Duke’s Jeremy Roach, that’s all that’s around him this season. Roach returns for his junior year at Duke, […]
When UNC and Duke played in the Final Four, the two teams were separated by a mere four points. Once the season ended, however, the distance between the programs seemed to be a chasm. It […]
Come on in! The water’s fine. That seems to be the message that underclassmen from college basketball teams across North Carolina received after considering early entry into the NBA Draft. The NBA allows players to […]
DURHAM — Jon Scheyer took the wheel of the Duke basketball program in April and didn’t take long to make an unexpected sharp turn. The head coach-in-waiting for 11 months while Hall of Fame coach […]
Duke is used to offseason departures and having spots to fill. It’s just usually one-and-done players that are the ones leaving rather than assistant coaches. The Blue Devils opened the 2022 offseason with a pair […]
DURHAM — On a night when they lost their head coach at halftime, the Duke Blue Devils needed a last-second shot to avoid losing the game as well. With coach Mike Krzyzewski absent due to […]
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