Head coach Chris Pollard hopes his team doesn't come down with a potentially season-threatening illness.
Head coach Chris Pollard and the No. 15 Blue Devils offer their takes on the title runs, the upcoming season and other baseball miscellany.
Coming in at No. 4: Duke baseball surprises everyone en route to an NCAA super regional berth, nearly upsetting eventual-national champion Vanderbilt and securing the program’s first College World Series bid since 1961, if it weren’t for one of the greatest performances in college baseball history.
From the Blue Devil haven down in New Orleans to Luke Kennard's emergence in Detroit, the Blue Zone dissects another week of Duke in the NBA.
All the talent that brought Duke baseball a single win away from the 2019 College World Series was on display last weekend.
From Marcus Stroman’s first career All-Star appearance to Griffin Conine’s emergence in the Blue Jays’ farm system, let’s take a look at Duke in the MLB.
With two straight super regional appearances—the first two since super regionals were instituted in 1975—Duke is becoming the program head coach Chris Pollard sought out to become when he took over in 2013.
A thunderous performance from Vanderbilt's bats prevented Duke from earning its first College World Series berth since 1961.
Saturday night's contest was a pitchers' duel, with Vanderbilt's Kumar Rocker prevailing over Duke's Bryce Jarvis.
Kyle Gallagher's third inning shot over the center field fence gave Duke an early 6-2 advantage, and helped the Blue Devils to an upset win.
For the second year in a row, Duke worked its postseason magic into a super regional appearance, with a trip to its first College World Series since 1961 on the line.
After a season cut short by injury made his draft stock plummet, the preseason All-American was selected with the 128th overall pick.
After winning its first regional in program history in 2018, Duke clinched a spot in the super regional for the second year in a row.
After notching just 10 at-bats in his first two seasons, Matt Mervis has emerged as one of Duke's most important hitters in 2019.
Led by a magical outing from the sophomore right hander, the Blue Devils pushed past No. 15 West Virginia 4-0 for their second upset in as many days, clinching a spot in the regional final.
Ben Gross' seven-inning, one-run outing helped Duke past Texas A&M.
After winning the first regional in program history last year, Duke hopes to earn a spot in the super regional yet again.
Duke is back in the NCAA tournament for the third time in the last four years.
Duke narrowly missed advancing to the ACC tournament semifinals, with a Georgia Tech walk-off double sending the Blue Devils home.
Coming into the week, most pundits project the Blue Devils to sneak in the NCAA Tournament’s field of 64 as an at-large bid, but losses in seven of their last nine games over the final two weeks of the regular season might have put a little more importance on winning games this week in Durham.
