The Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational pitted Duke against a trio of top-25 teams — No. 19 Alabama, No. 18 Notre Dame and No. 15 Indiana — along with host Louisville. In their first spring regatta led by head coach Adrian Spracklen, the Blue Devils secured gold in all 10 of its races.
Relying on defense to win the day was key in both games of the midweek doubleheader as No. 13 Duke fought its way to two victories over No. 21 Liberty.
With No. 2-seed Duke women's basketball kicking off its NCAA Tournament run Friday evening, the Blue Zone is here with a preview of the Blue Devils' first opponent.
The men's NCAA Tournament bracket was released Sunday, and the Blue Zone is here to break down the top teams and possible upsets in each region.
Flagg and Fournier were both named ACC Rookie of the Year, just the third time that both programs have won the conference’s newcomer award in the same year. How have they improved this year, and what is in store for them as the NCAA Tournament begins?
John Feinstein died March 13. He and his career — which might have been the same thing — began at The Chronicle.
The NCAA tournament bracket was released Sunday, and the tournament is beginning to get underway. The Blue Zone is here to break down the top teams and possible upsets in each region.
The Newport, Maine, native — along with Auburn's Johni Broome — were unanimous first-team selections on AP's All-America team.
Fifty-two Division I teams from all over the country sent swimmers to the meet. At the end of the competition, the Duke men took home 10th place with 322 points, while the women took home 30th with 84 points.
At Duke Softball Field in Durham, the 13th-ranked Blue Devils took their first two games against Syracuse 3-1 and 6-0 before allowing a 3-2 loss in the third.
Duke fell 10-5 to No. 18 Stanford Sunday evening to cap off a disappointing road sweep. After mustering just two runs through the first two games of the series, the Blue Devils entered Sunday looking to salvage a game and avoid a winless weekend. Instead, they squandered an early lead and were doubled up, heading back to Durham licking their wounds as they prepare to enter the heart of conference play.
Friday, two Blue Devils competed at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach, Va. Graduate thrower Christian Johnson placed ninth with a throw of 22.47m, securing second-team All America honors. Pole vaulter Simen Guttormsen cleared a personal best 5.71m to become the second-ever Blue Devil man to bring home an individual NCAA indoor championship.
Aidan Maguire's score in double overtime ended a slugfest between the two teams that featured five lead changes and seven ties, as Duke nabbed its second overtime victory of the year.
O'Meara finished second in the 3-meter dive and seventh in the 1-meter, posting final scores of 699.20 and 592.25, respectively. The performances earned her a chance to compete at the women’s NCAA Championships, where she will contend for national titles in Federal Way, Wash., along with several Blue Devil swimmers.
Duke received a No. 2 seed on Selection Sunday, marking the second time in the last three years that the Blue Devils will host games in Durham.
ACE was born as a way to give athletes a summer international experience centered on civic engagement. David Rubenstein, Trinity '70, former chair of Duke’s Board of Trustees and a famous civic leader in his own right, stepped in with generous financial support. The Blue Devil athletic department also started putting a dollar from every regular-season home sporting event ticket toward the initiative. These efforts paid off when the program was officially announced in 2015, with the first batch of athletes going abroad in summer 2016.
After an impressive run through the ACC Tournament that finished with Duke men’s basketball cutting down the nets, the Blue Zone takes a look at one key player, word and stat from the games.
In Sunday’s NCAA Tournament Selection Show, the Blue Devils locked down a No. 1 seed in the East Region. They will tip off against the winner of the play-in game between American and Mount St. Mary’s to begin the madness in Raleigh.
The 13th-ranked Blue Devils stepped off the bus in Charlottesville, Va., with a vengeance against their old-time ACC rival, No. 15 Virginia. Despite a powerful first period, Duke fell to the Cavaliers 16-11 after a drastic comeback in the third quarter.
Duke defeated Louisville 73-62 in the ACC championship for its second league title in three years. The Blue Devils snapped the Cardinals’ 11-game win streak, and even without Cooper Flagg, Duke basketball will soon have a banner flying high.
