Three minutes into Duke’s exhibition game in Toronto on Wednesday, Alex O’Connell went to the hospital after absorbing an elbow to the face on a dunk by a Ryerson University opponent. Duke updated O’Connell’s status […]
DURHAM — The NCAA announced several major rules changes last week that, on the surface, look like they’ll change the face of college basketball. The two headline-grabbing changes were that players will be allowed to […]
Brennan Besser didn’t get into any games for Duke this past season, but the Blue Devils walk-on was on the bench, with the best seat in the house for the team’s run to the Elite […]
Duke’s already loaded recruiting class just got even deeper. Forward Joey Baker, who was committed to join the Blue Devils for the 2019-20 season, reclassified his year on Wednesday and will enroll in school this […]
North Carolina’s recent academic fraud case was front-and-center among the subjects addressed in a report released Wednesday by the commission looking into problems plaguing college basketball. The 12-member Commission on College Basketball, chaired by former […]
Vic Bubas, who led Duke to its first Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball championship in 1960, died Monday. He was 91. Bubas was on the sideline for the Blue Devils from 1959-69, producing a 213-67 […]
Gary Trent Jr. has become the third of Duke’s four star freshmen to declare for the NBA Draft. Trent joins teammates Marvin Bagley III and Trevon Duval in a one-and-done club that is expected to […]
Freshman guard Trevon Duval became Duke’s second one-and-done player this season Wednesday with his announcement that he will join teammate Marvin Bagley III in the NBA draft. Duval is the 14th Blue Devil to declare […]
Great season. So close. Now scrap everything. Going forward, at least for the foreseeable future, that will be the Duke basketball mantra. The Blue Devils’ overtime loss to Kansas in the Elite Eight cost the […]
In the hours following Duke’s elimination from the NCAA tournament Sunday, Jon Scheyer emerged as a leading candidate for the basketball coaching job at ACC rival Pittsburgh. Two days later, the Panthers have followed through […]
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