NEW YORK — Shamorie Ponds scored 33 points as St. John’s ended an 11-game losing streak by stunning fourth-ranked Duke 81-77 on Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. Ponds, who tallied 31 points earlier in the week […]
Allerik Freeman’s perfect performance from beyond the 3-point arc against North Carolina helped him earn his first ACC Player of the Week award. Marvin Bagley III, meanwhile, continued his domination of the league’s Rookie of […]
Duke found itself in a familiar position this January, looking up at the rest of the ACC. The Blue Devils dropped two of their first three ACC games, losing at Boston College and NC State, […]
WINSTON-SALEM — Even with its abundance of talent, the Duke basketball team is still very much a work in progress. Especially on defense. The fact that the Blue Devils have still won 18 games and […]
CORAL GABLES, FLA. — Duke freshman guard Gary Trent Jr. scored a season- and game-high 30 points and freshman forwards Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. each posted double-doubles to rally the No. 5 Blue Devils to […]
DURHAM — Wake Forest was already facing a tall task trying to stop Duke’s stable of talented big men Saturday. The job only got tougher after starting center Doral Moore and his primary backup Olivier […]
Marvin Bagley III’s 16 points and 15 rebounds fueled No. 7 Duke as the Blue Devils turned in a huge response after a weekend upset loss by pounding host Pittsburgh 87-52 on Wednesday night at Petersen Events […]
Marvin Bagley III will be a distant memory in Durham by the time 2018 ends, but as the year begins he’s still the clear-cut choice to be the Newcomer of the Year. Bagley’s 2017 has […]
As talented as Duke’s freshmen are, they entered Saturday’s game without having ever experienced an ACC win. The Blue Devils fell in an early December ACC opener at Boston College, then had a three-week wait […]
DURHAM — Evansville head coach Marty Simmons knew what Duke’s key to success was on Wednesday night. “They pressured the (expletive deleted) out of us,” he said. “They got after us.” After a lackluster defensive […]
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