Right now, Duke is struggling. The team just suffered its worst loss in 15 years-against archrival UNC, no less-and is quite clearly the third-best team in the ACC.
Duke starts every game playing "1," its trademark man-to-man defense. What the Blue Devils do next is anyone's guess.
The Blue Devils know that to be the best, they have to play the best.
As Duke heads into the ACC and NCAA Tournaments, it's not with the same fanfare that it has in the past.
As the clock ticked down with four minutes remaining, North Carolina fans began to file out of Carmichael Auditorium with the Tar Heels adding to a staggering 28-point lead.
Six minutes into the game, junior Abby Waner set up behind the arc and let her shot fly. It looked true, but it hit the rim, rolled around twice, and spun out into the hands of North Carolina's...
Senior guard Wanisha Smith can recall the one overarching memory from Duke's 93-76 loss to North Carolina Feb. 4. "They kicked our butts," she said. But Smith also remembers Duke's last game,...
As the Cameron Crazies waved their hands waiting for Virginia's Monica Wright to take her five fouls to the bench, all senior Wanisha Smith could do was laugh with her teammates and breathe easy...
Facing a 45-37 deficit early in the second half against Virginia, No. 12 Duke saw a win, a third-place conference finish and a 78-game home winning streak against unranked opponents slipping away.
Duke will spend part of its weekend looking back on the careers of seniors Wanisha Smith and Emily Waner.
"I'm really sick of Toliver's threes," junior Abby Waner said, calling to mind Toliver's 3-pointer that forced overtime in an eventual Maryland win over Duke in the 2006 National Championship.
When they last faced Maryland Jan. 14 in College Park, the Blue Devils were dominated on the glass and from the free-throw line and failed to come away with a win.
No. 12 Duke (19-6, 8-2 in the ACC) looks to get its revenge against No. 4 Maryland (26-2, 10-1) Sunday night at 5:30 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
When Duke's Abby Waner drained a 3-pointer with just more than four minutes left in the first half, the shooting guard struggled to hold back a smile as the ball ripped through the net.
Duke looks to take care of business against an ACC bottom feeder tonight when it faces Clemson to collect its twelfth straight victory against unranked opponents.
The Blue Devils have an offensive threat that is consistently putting up double figures while playing lockdown defense on some of the nation's best scorers.
Seven minutes and 17 seconds into Sunday's game, Wake Forest hadn't scored. By the time the Demon Deacons posted their first points Sunday, Duke had already scored plenty.
The Wake Forest game plan going into Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday was simple-stop Chante Black.
Senior Emily Waner has taken a leave of absence from the Blue Devils. The guard missed Duke's 71-36 win over Wake Forest Sunday to return home for the weekend.
After scoring more than 70 points in 10 of their last 11 contests, the Blue Devils' offense cooled off Thursday night as the team barely eclipsed the 50-point mark.
