Duke men's lacrosse 2023 season preview
By Sasha Richie , Luke Jovanovic , Ana Young and Andrew Long | February 3, 2023How do the Blue Devils respond to and rebound from last season’s unceremonious end, and how do they account for key departures?
How do the Blue Devils respond to and rebound from last season’s unceremonious end, and how do they account for key departures?
With the 2022 PLL season in the books, the Blue Zone takes a look at the Blue Devils plying their trade on both sides of Sunday's championship game between the Waterdogs and Chaos.
McCabe Millon, the No. 1 overall recruit in the Class of 2023, announced that he has decommited from Duke via social media Monday. The five-star attackman will instead join Virginia.
Under international duty with the USA U-21 Men’s National Team, four Blue Devils helped take down a talented Canada squad 12-10 Saturday to claim the gold medal at the World Lacrosse Men's U21 Championship.
Five members of Duke men’s lacrosse have been named to the All-ACC Team, tying Virginia for the program with the most selections this year.
Duke’s season may be over, but its fans will still be able to watch one of their favorite Blue Devils play, this time in the Premier Lacrosse League.
For the first time under head coach John Danowski, Duke will not be competing in the NCAA tournament.
The problem with this inconsistency was that it became difficult to figure out how good this Duke team actually was. When the postseason loomed and eight at-large bids were at stake, that problem turned into a bonafide catastrophe for the Blue Devils.
With considerable implications for NCAA tournament selection, No. 12 Duke took on the seventh-ranked Fighting Irish in South Bend, Ind., at Arlotta Stadium in a must-win game for both teams.
This time last year, Duke’s number 51 was plying his trade in midfield.
After a lightning delay of more than an hour, Duke crushed rival North Carolina 19-11 in front of a packed Koskinen Stadium crowd.
While the Blue Devils are not yet a postseason lock, their early-season struggles feel further in the rearview than they have at any other point this season.
Continuing a streak that began in 2005, No. 14 Duke once again defeated No. 6 Virginia in the teams’ regular-season meeting.
Sometimes your best isn’t quite enough, and that was the case against the Fighting Irish as the Blue Devils fell 16-15 at home in Koskinen Stadium.
Saturday night, with Duke and North Carolina’s prestigious men’s basketball programs facing off in the Final Four, all eyes were fixed on New Orleans. Just a few hours earlier, though, that same rivalry raged on back in Chapel Hill.
For a team criticized for lacking cohesion, locking down its pre-existing players and supplementing them with experience and freshman seemed a sensible strategy.
Brennan O'Neill dragged a Blue Devil team that has underperformed in recent weeks to a commanding 14-7 win against Towson Saturday in the Capitol Classic Tournament at Audi Field.
In a rematch of last season’s dramatic Elite Eight matchup, then-No. 8 Duke fell 12-10 on the road to Loyola as the clock ran out on a furious Blue Devil comeback bid in the latter half of the fourth quarter.
Heading back to Durham on the back of two consecutive road games, then-No. 10 Duke came out firing against Richmond at Koskinen Stadium, strolling to a 14-8 victory.
While the Blue Devils’ modus operandi Saturday was unleashing as many shots as possible on as many possessions as possible, the Quakers had a different, sneakier approach.