Category Archives: Duke

‘RJ, you f*cker, I wanna kill you’ – silence is deafening

Duke coach Jon Scheyer completely ignored water bottles and debris being thrown at players but pleaded for the same group of students to accept his apology for the performance of his team. The optics of this are horrible. What could be worse? Death threats without consequences. Some are saying the heckler says, “I’m gonna kill you” rather than “I wanna kill you.” Listen for yourself. Please click here for more.

Blue Devils going after their own Crazies

Duke sports website had this to say about the Cameron Crazies following their latest antics against Carolina: After we heard some of what was said, amazingly, we had to side with those players – against you. Our reaction would have been much the same. You can’t treat people that way. You just can’t. Those guys, to their credit, kept their composure and responded only after they won the game. Please click here for more.

Duke ‘Crazies’ Throw Drinks, Gum Balls At North Carolina Players Following Loss

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that North Carolina players were excited when the clock hit zero, rushing out onto the court to celebrate the win, but also give a little bit of that taunting back to the Duke student section. This is when things took a turn, leading to students throwing drinks, cups and even a gumball at North Carolina players. Please click here for more.

Ryan leads Heels over Duke for ACC title

After six seasons in college, Cormac Ryan had the game of his life by scoring a career-high 31 points, including six threes, to lead North Carolina to an ACC regular season title with an 84-79 at rival Duke. (3/9)

“I love to play in these environments,” Ryan said. “This game meant a lot to us. We didn’t want to share the title with anyone… Winning outright in this building is something special.”

Ryan set the tone early by swishing three triples in the first four minutes to force Duke to take a timeout with the Tar Heels up 15-4.

The Heels extended the lead to 15 on three different occasions in the first half. A Jalen Washington dunk made it 21-6. An Elliott Cadeau layup high off the backboard made it 27-12 and an RJ Davis three put the Heels up 30-15.

Duke didn’t go away, getting threes from McCain and Proctor to help the Blue Devils cut the halftime margin to nine at 40-31.

A quick Duke spurt at the beginning of the second half, led by Kyle Filipowski, who scored seven points in less than two minutes, put the Blue Devils right back in the game. After Jeremy Roach hit a three from the top of the key, the Tar Heels led by just one at 43-42 with 16:55 still left in the game.

But the resilient Tar Heels went on a quick 9-1 run of their own to get back control of the game with a 52-43 lead. Highlighting the run was an old-fashioned three-point play by Armando Bacot, who backed in, scored and was fouled.

The lead hovered around six to 10 points most of the remainder of the game. A long two by Cadeau at the end of the shot clock with 40 seconds left seemed to wrap it up at 80-72. But Duke scored seven points in 35 seconds to make it close at the end.

Carolina game hero Ryan hit four straight free throws late in the game to help keep Duke at bay.

“We competed and fought,” UNC coach Hubert Davis said. “We had the will, the effort, the want-to, everything you have to have to win a game like this on the road against Duke. I really wanted our guys to be ACC champions alone and they are.”

Harrison Ingram, the other starting transfer player, was the only other Tar Heel in double figures as he scored 14 points and pulled in 10 rebounds.

Duke, who end the regular season with a 24-7 overall record and a 15-5 mark in the ACC, was led by Filipowski’s 23 points and Jared McCain’s 19 points.

“We took some tough shots that led to them getting some run outs,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said, adding that the Devils may have gotten caught up in the senior day activities. “We’re hurt and disappointed but our guys always respond.” He said he expects his team to regroup and be refreshed for the ACC Tournament.

The Tar Heels improve to 25-6 overall and 17-3 in the ACC. Carolina goes into next week’s ACC Tournament in Washington, DC as the No. 1 seed. With that, they’ll face the winner of the 8 vs. 9 game at noon on Thursday, March 14.

For a box score and more on the game, please click here.

Desperately needing the win, NC State is a 6.5-Point Underdog Against Duke

NC State (17-12) will host #10 Duke (23-6) this evening at 7pm, and home team is a 6.5-point underdog. While Kevin Keatts has had middling success at State, he’s done okay against Duke. Keatts’ record against the Blue Devils is 4-4 including last year’s unsettling destruction in the PNC and not many coaches can say they are .500 against Duke. Please click here for more.

Captains Kelly and Ustby lead UNC’s WBB senior day win over Duke

Senior day couldn’t have played out much better for Carolina senior co-captains Alyssa Ustby and Deja Kelly. Kelly scored 12 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter after Ustby scored 13 of her 17 points in the first half as UNC avenged an earlier loss to rival Duke with a 63–59 victory in a physical battle before a sellout crowd of 6,319 at Carmichael Arena. Please click here for more.