UNC lights up Duke for blowout win
By Lane Towery | February 5, 2008In its largest loss to North Carolina at home since 1993, No. 9 Duke fell to the high-powered Tar Heels 93-76 Monday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
In its largest loss to North Carolina at home since 1993, No. 9 Duke fell to the high-powered Tar Heels 93-76 Monday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The game's outcome was long decided, but if you happened to amble into Cameron Indoor Stadium with 1:31 left in the second half of Monday's defeat, you would have witnessed Duke's loss in a nutshell.
Fortunately for the Blue Devils, with two starters in less than top form, the rest of the squad stepped up just in time.
Following a tough loss to Tennessee that snapped a nation-leading 26-game home win streak, Duke looks to start a new run tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium against Virginia Tech at 7 p.m.
Duke played well behind inspired defense, but not quite well enough to beat No. 2 Tennessee in front of a sell-out crowd in Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday night, eventually falling to the Lady Vols...
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Georgia Tech entered Thursday night's game against Duke riding an 18-game home winning streak. The Blue Devils came in with 27 consecutive victories over the Yellow Jackets.
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As the Blue Devils filed out of the Comcast Center with solemn faces and heads hung low, a scream on the loudspeakers could only rub salt in the wounds.
With the lights dimmed on a raucous crowd of 15,531 in the Comcast Center Monday night, two pillars of fire blazed at halfcourt as each Maryland starter was announced.
Seven minutes into the first half of Friday night's game against Florida State, Duke's starting backcourt of Abby Waner, Wanisha Smith and Jasmine Thomas was uncharacteristically quiet.
In preparing for her first ACC home opener, head coach Joanne P. McCallie is looking for one thing from her team more than anything: consistency.
Before Saturday's game against Miami, the No. 11 Blue Devils had won six straight games with relative ease.
With 12.1 seconds remaining in Saturday's game against Pittsburgh, Duke found itself in a familiar situation-a rough, ugly game that came down to the wire.
Playing in the Maggie Dixon Classic, held to promote awareness about sudden cardiac arrest, Duke was playing as if its own offensive heartbeat was fluttering.
When Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie described a team as physical, scrappy and gritty Thursday, she was not talking about Rutgers.
With a chance to seal the game at the free-throw line, Carrem Gay didn't let her memory drift back to the last time Duke faced Rutgers.