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Duke to Face WKU in Thanksgiving Showdown
By Vignesh Nathan | November 26, 2009
After a slow start, No. 10 Duke (3-1) went on the defeat the scrappy 49ers, 57-44. Duke now holds a 7-3 lead in its overall series with Charlotte (1-3), and can boast a 6-0 record when playing at...
In the 2005-2006 season, Eric Boateng was a freshman center on Duke’s roster and Herb Sendek coached ACC foe N.C. State. Four years later, Boateng and Sendek both reside in Tempe—and the former...
Duke faced perhaps the toughest test of its young season Saturday, taking on what head coach Mike Krzyzewski called a “really, really good” Radford team. The Highlanders were a force inside, led by...
With a trip to Cancun for the Caribbean Challenge looming, the No. 11 Blue Devils will first look to take care of business at home against Charlotte tonight at 7 p.m.
Against No. 9 Duke Saturday, Radford played a zone for the majority of the contest, forcing the Blue Devils’ hand and hoping that they would die by the three. Unfortunately for the Highlanders,...
Few teams will measure up to the Blue Devils’ size this year, with the Duke roster featuring four players over 6-foot-10 in what will amount to one of the team’s tallest squads in recent memory.
The Blue Devils were not about to fall victim to two big upsets in one week, but they did not perform to their expectations last night against Georgia Southern.
Through all the assignments the 6-foot-5 guard has filled during his Duke career, from starting on the wing as a freshman to serving as a sixth man ace during his sophomore season, Scheyer is at...
Duke first met Georgia Southern Jan. 9, 1982 in Statesboro, Ga., with the Eagles narowly edging out the Blue Devils 64-58. Two seasons later, however, Duke delivered a victory at the USF Holiday...
Nolan Smith’s career-high 24 points will receive all the attention from Duke’s lopsided 101-59 victory over Charlotte. But the junior guard’s season debut may have had a larger impact on the...
For Duke’s first two games, Nolan Smith could only sit and watch from the bench. Tuesday night, he showed his teammates what they had been missing. Behind a career-high 24 points from the junior...
Duke doesn’t typically have a difficult time dispatching mid-major teams early in the season, yet two minutes into the game Monday evening against Coastal Carolina, the gritty Chanticleers led 6-0...
Playing with only an eight-man rotation again due to Nolan Smith’s suspension and Mason Plumlee’s injury, Duke struggled to score consistently in its first round matchup in the NIT Season Tip-Off...