This could be one of the more compelling college basketball seasons in recent memory. The new season tips off Monday with 19 of the preseason AP Top 25 in action and ends in San Antonio on the first Monday night in April. Below are the 16 players and coaches that we expect to define those five months of basketball. Please click here for more.
Category Archives: Duke
College basketball, king of all sports in NC, should be special again in the Triangle
College basketball might not be as popular or compelling as it was during its 1970s or 80s or 90s heyday — here, or anywhere — but it’s hardly just a one-month pastime in North Carolina. In North Carolina, it remains part religion or maybe part cult. It determines tribal affiliation. Please click here for more.
Duke’s Cooper Flagg Partners with Cort Furniture for Cross-Country Move
As a highly mobile man, Flagg has inked a partnership with temporary furnishing supplier Cort to highlight the transitory nature of being an elite amateur athlete. Within the new partnership, Flagg showed off his new North Carolina-based digs and the in-kind furnishing services Cort provided as part of the endorsement deal. Please click here for more.
Duke Enshrines Nine into Hall of Fame
Duke University inducted nine new members into its Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday evening at a ceremony at the Washington Duke Inn. The Class of 2024 features two National Player of the Year honorees, Matt Danowski and JJ Redick; Olympic medalist Abby Johnston McGrath; NCAA champions Anna Grzebien Vanderlinde and Becca Ward; and standout athletes Monique Currie, Quinton McCracken, and Chris Port, along with three-time national champion coach John Danowski. Please click here for more.
Duke Football Loss Sparks ‘Sadness, Anger, Confusion, Pride’
Although the Blue Devils (6-2, 2-2 ACC) exhibited their patented resiliency in climbing back from what grew to a 21-7 deficit late in the third quarter, they wound up with an undeniably deflating 28-27 overtime defeat. Please click here for more.
Two Big Duke Basketball Targets Set to Announce in Same Hour
Guard Acaden Lewis and forward Shelton Henderson are two of the most highly sought-after basketball players in the country. They both have Duke on their short lists and they both plan to announce their decision at virtually the same time. Coincidence? Please click here for more.
ACC football picks and predictions for Week 9
The last game on the weekend schedule takes place in Durham. The Blue Devils, winners of six of their first seven games, host an SMU Mustangs team that also sits 6-1 thanks to one of the most productive offenses in the Power Four. Here are picks and predictions for the ACC schedule this weekend. Please click here.
Former NC State star Julius Hodge, now coaching, in high spirits despite big loss to Duke
First-year coach Julius Hodge, the former Wolfpack great, was nothing short of delightfully entertaining throughout his postgame presser in the media room of the Blue Devils’ Cameron Indoor Stadium. Indeed, following the Division II Lions’ 107-56 defeat at the hands of preseason No. 7-ranked Duke, the former silky bucket-getter from Harlem endeared himself again to Tobacco Road journalists via a mix of humility and humor. Please click here for more.
Duke Blue Devils vs. Florida State Seminoles Prediction
Duke (5-1) has a chance to clinch bowl eligibility in mid-October, a real accomplishment for the Blue Devils program, especially in year one under new coach Manny Diaz. To do so, they’ll need to get through struggling Florida State (1-5), a team that should have a talent edge, but has underachieved as much as any program in the nation this fall. Please click here for more. And here for more predictions.
Duke basketball to play HBCU in season opener
Duke University is set to tip off the 2024-2025 season against a Division II HBCU coached by a notable ACC alumnus Julian Hodges. Lincoln University of Pennsylvania is set to face off against the Blue Devils, keeping a tradition of playing HBCU basketball programs alive for another season. Please click here for more.