After a back-and-forth grind for 60 minutes filled with highlight-reel goals and clutch saves, the blockbuster matchup went into sudden-death overtime, where it was anyone's game.
Both squads blitzed through their nonconference competition before securing a top-10 win to begin ACC play and swapping the top two spots in the polls, making Thursday's contest a regular-season rivalry matchup of epic proportions.
With just a second on the clock, Duke clinging onto a one-goal lead and Syracuse on the man-up, Orange All-American Stephen Rehfuss launched a rocket at the net.
"Just as a fan of the sport and somebody that's always enjoyed the sport, this is the stage that you dream about playing on. You go to play college lacrosse to play in a game like Duke-Syracuse."
An 11-0 run propelled Duke to its eighth straight win to begin the season.
The 27 goals were the most Duke’s scored against a Division I opponent since 1989.
Duke scored four goals in the first eight minutes Sunday and never looked back.
Robertson scored his 100th career goal to complete a hat trick in the first 20 minutes of play Saturday afternoon. Then he decided that wasn’t enough, and scored four more.
Is there an absolute recipe for a perfect lacrosse team? No. But do the Blue Devils have one that makes Martha Stewart look like an amateur? Yes.
Joe Robertson went 630 days without playing in an official game for Duke men's lacrosse. But on Saturday he finally returned to the field, and made an immediate impact.
As new players get acclimated, Duke relied on its depth pieces to score and pull the Blue Devils to their second win.
For the first 35 minutes of Duke’s season opener against Denver, all the hype surrounding the 2021 Blue Devils seemed like a bit of an exaggeration.
O'Neill has been lauded as a generational recruit, but will join a Duke squad that won't need him to be an alpha scorer right away.
Sowers has proven himself as the best player in college lacrosse, but to cement himself as one of the greatest to ever play, the team-first star is well aware that it all comes down to hoisting the trophy on Memorial Day Weekend.
Duke enters the season as favorites to bring home the program's fourth national championship.
There’s no denying it—this year’s Duke squad enters the 2021 season as one of the most hyped college lacrosse teams in recent memory, one that has the talent to be remembered for a very long time.
With the official announcement of returning seniors and graduate students, Duke is prime to be one of the best teams in college lacrosse next season, with the program's fourth national championship certainly in the cards.
Women's golf sophomore Gina Kim, men's golf junior Evan Katz and women's lacrosse senior Catherine Cordrey discuss the crazy last couple of months.
The Blue Devils have a lot to look forward to next year.
The world will never know just how good this team could have been.
