Thoughts on the AP poll: Duke men's basketball falls to No. 7 following up and down week
By Max Rego | February 24, 2020This past week was one filled with highs and lows for the Blue Devils.
This past week was one filled with highs and lows for the Blue Devils.
Duke bounced back in a big way Saturday night.
Duke knew it couldn’t start off the way it did in Raleigh if it wanted to avoid a second consecutive upset loss.
Cassius Stanley was the real star of the show, completing highlight after highlight to add to his already illustrious season mixtape.
Here are five observations from the first 20 minutes of play.
The Blue Devils will have to regroup quickly before taking on Virginia Tech Saturday night at 8 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Matthew Hurt's production has been a coin flip so far this season. Which face will we see Saturday against Virginia Tech?
At home, the Blue Devils must feed off of the Cameron Crazies and avoid a sluggish start to avoid back to back losses.
It’s a day ending in “y,” and you know what that means: Duke is out recruiting top prospects.
Countless times this season, Duke has fallen behind early on the road, only for a second-half surge to come in and save the Blue Devils from an unranked loss. Eventually, there would be a night in which yet another slow start came back to bite them. Wednesday was that night.
The team that took the court in PNC Arena was not the same team that won a miracle in Chapel Hill or trounced Notre Dame over the weekend.
The Blue Devils can't seem to win in PNC Arena.
Here are five observations from the first 20 minutes.
Though this year’s Duke team may not generate a ton of hype, the 2019-20 Blue Devils are primed to accomplish something that the previous 13 Duke squads have not: win an outright ACC regular season title.
The last time Carey matched up against an elite ACC rim protector, James Banks III and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets limited him to just 14 points on 6-of-14 shooting.
A pair of former Blue Devils made their first career All-Star Game appearances this past weekend, while two more battled it out in the Rising Stars contest.
The sophomore played a crucial role in Duke’s 24-8 run to shut the door on Notre Dame this past Saturday.
Road contests in the Wolfpack's gym have been a struggle over the last decade for Duke, losers of five of its last seven in PNC Arena, including a 2014 first round NCAA tournament loss to Mercer.
"He will practice today, and unless something happens in the next couple days for any of the players, we should be all ready to play," Krzyzewski said.
Duke continued its dominant February this past week, while its fellow powerhouses atop the ACC struggled to keep up.