SPORTS | BASKETBALL
Chatter develops with age under Coach K's guise
By Mike Van Pelt | March 10, 2005The most crucial sounds on the court are ones most fans won’t hear.
The most crucial sounds on the court are ones most fans won’t hear.
To the average basketball fan or recreational player, trash talking seems like an elementary concept.
When they walk into the media room, which they’ll admit isn’t often, they are not swarmed by reporters with recorders and notepads in hand.
Duke’s J.J. Redick should be the ACC Player of the Year.
Maryland head coach Gary Williams and Terrapin fans everywhere have been waiting for their team to play the ACC Tournament in their own backyard for years.
No, the Blue Devils aren’t the highest-seeded team in the ACC Tournament. The Blue Devils aren’t the most talented team, either, and they certainly don’t have the most depth.
If someone were to ask you if the fourth-place team in one of the nation’s best conferences would qualify for the NCAA Tournament, you would say that they’ve sewn up a bid.
This year’s ACC Tournament winner will not come from the triumvirate—North Carolina, Wake Forest and Duke—but from one of two desperate underdog squads, either fifth-seeded...
Lee Melchionni was out in front of every defender, in the stadium he had always dreamed of playing in, with 9,314 pairs of eyes looking just at him.
Chris Paul knows all about expectations.
From staff reports.
GREENSBORO — The smirk on Ivory Latta’s face from the opening tip said it all.
GREENSBORO — Duke finally got a taste of its own medicine Monday night.
GREENSBORO — Smarting from a regular season-ending loss to North Carolina, the Blue Devils entered the ACC Tournament in an unfamiliar position.
GREENSBORO — With two dominant, record-setting ACC-Tournament victories over Wake Forest and Maryland, Duke’s women’s basketball team served notice to the entire nation this...
CHAPEL HILL — When Duke inbounded the ball clinging to a two-point lead with 36.8 seconds left Sunday, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams had already instructed his players to foul.
CHAPEL HILL — Murphy’s Law: everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Sunday, the law applied to college basketball.
GREENSBORO — Duke will get its chance to avenge two regular-season losses to top-seeded North Carolina when they meet in the finals of the ACC Tournament Monday night at 7:30 p.m.
On a night that was supposed to belong to seniors Daniel Ewing and Reggie Love, junior J.J. Redick stole the show.
Duke’s “big three” has accounted for more than 65 percent of its points and just about 100 percent of its individual accolades this season.