SPORTS | BASKETBALL
Redick shows versatility in win
By Mike Van Pelt | November 15, 2005J.J. Redick didn't make a three-pointer in Duke's season-opener Monday night.
J.J. Redick didn't make a three-pointer in Duke's season-opener Monday night.
In a game that featured five Blue Devil freshmen on the court at the same time, it was sophomore DeMarcus Nelson who brought the house down with his high-flying acrobatics and improved scoring...
The Blue Devils have been here before-a roster loaded with talent and all the lofty expectations that come with the No. 1 ranking in the country. The question for head coach Gail Goestenkors, is if...
With two National Player of the Year candidates and one of the nation's best recruiting classes, virtually everyone is already penciling Duke into the Final Four.
In 26 years of coaching, Mike Krzyzewski has seen a lot of special players come and go. Few, if any, he says, have had the impact on his fellow Blue Devils that Sean Dockery has.
The winds of change are blowing at the University of Virginia.
In a game during her senior year of high school, Carrem Gay found herself all alone, on a fast break, with a chance to do something very few women's high school basketball players have ever done...
Sean Dockery and Lee Melchionni will talk about just about anything.
Josh McRoberts did not know what to do.
"This is the first year since [2001 graduate Shane] Battier that we're going to have an established star," head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "We've got two of them.".
Before any Duke student had heard of Martynas Pocius, the Blue Devil recruiting class was already considered one of the best in the country, and as a result, little fanfare was given to Pocius'...
North Carolina head coach Roy Williams finally got the monkey off his back last year by winning his first national championship in 17 seasons.
The ACC may have been the big winner at the June 28 NBA draft, but its teams were the big losers.
After leaving the Big East, Boston College is hardly coming into the ACC under the radar.
What a difference a year can make.
Ilian Evtimov came to N.C. State as part of a 2001 freshman class that earned berths in four straight NCAA Tournaments and vaulted the Wolfpack into one of the ACC's perennial contenders.
In 2004, Leonard Hamilton brought in the nation's 11th-best recruiting class to play alongside the nation's top-ranked sophomore class.
It was definitely not supposed to be this way for John Gilchrist. As a sophomore two years ago, the point guard dominated an ACC Tournament which the Terrapins eventually won.
Last season, the Blue Devils were hampered by a lack of depth.
Making the adjustment from high school basketball to the ACC is difficult. It is even harder trying to adapt as a shooting guard with an injured shooting hand.