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, […]
There was no barbeque or beach music in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, but the NBA Draft had a North Carolina feel last week. Six players with connections to the Old North State were taken in the […]
Turns out there’s one more stop on the Coach K retirement tour. While Mike Krzyzewski has officially retired as Duke’s head coach and swears he won’t be attending any games next season, he will get […]
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 […]
CHARLOTTE — Above a doorway in the Charlotte Hornets’ locker room inside Spectrum Center is a photograph of the box score from the team’s 144-117 loss to Indiana in the Play-In Tournament last May. The […]
Duke’s Paolo Banchero is leaping to the NBA after one season as a candidate to be the No. 1 overall draft pick. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound freshman announced his decision in a social media video Wednesday, […]
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 […]
NEW ORLEANS — Haymaker after haymaker. Dagger after dagger. Back and forth they went. It seemed like it might never end, and no one watching would have complained. After 83 years, Carolina and Duke finally […]
NEW ORLEANS — Duke freshmen Trevor Keels and Paolo Banchero answered a question about what the Duke Brotherhood meant to them, which gave coach Mike Krzyzewski a moment to reflect. The Hall of Famer stared […]
NEW ORLEANS — One of Hubert Davis’ biggest concerns as his Tar Heels prepared to face Duke in the Final Four was the “noise” and distractions from having the archrivals meet in such an important […]
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