Duke didn't have trouble getting scoring chances, but the team had a hard time finding the back of the net.
Trailing No. 13 Vanderbilt a goal with 18 seconds remaining in regulation, the No. 7 Blue Devils rallied back for one final chance to tie the game Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.
Half an hour before Duke and Army face off Saturday at 12 p.m., paratroopers will jump onto the Manhasset High School field to deliver the game ball.
With less than a week remaining until the ACC tournament, the No. 8 Blue Devils have just one final test before they reach the postseason.
For most first-year graduate students, Monday afternoons are a time to catch up on some reading, work on a thesis or maybe grade papers as a teacher's assistant.
No. 8 Duke topped unranked Virginia Tech, 18-11, Monday in Blacksburg, Va. in the Blue Devils' (9-5, 3-2 in the ACC) last conference game of the season.
The No. 8 Blue Devils wanted to send their seniors out in style. And that's precisely what they did on Senior Day in a dominating 16-6 win over Boston College Saturday in Koskinen Stadium.
Another week, another game played against a recent national champion, another Duke blowout.
When Duke squares off against Virginia Saturday at 6 p.m. in Charlottesville, the Blue Devils will see some of themselves in the Cavaliers in more ways than one.
When the No. 8 Blue Devils take the field tomorrow, they will be concentrating on more than just ending their four-game losing streak.
It's hockey on grass. It's basketball with sticks. It's soccer with hitting. These are just some of the ways people try to characterize lacrosse.
They made the defending national champion Blue Jays look inexperienced, slow and, let's face it, downright bad.
In a contest that Duke expected to come down to the wire, the Blue Devils destroyed perennial powerhouse Johns Hopkins in every facet of the game.
As Duke has developed into a perennial powerhouse, it has been rare for the team to come in as a true underdog in any contest.
After falling in three consecutive games, the Blue Devils look to turn things around Sunday when they face top-ranked and undefeated Northwestern (10-0) at 1 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.
Despite scoring fewer than 30 seconds into the game and breaking even statistically, the seventh-ranked Blue Devils couldn't overcome No. 12 Notre Dame