When a team has a combination of great shooting and great defense, it usually finds itself on the winning end. On Sunday against Georgia Tech, No. 4 Duke (17-1, 5-0 in the ACC) had just that,...
Aspiring basketball players learn one golden rule when they are taught how to break a zone defense: Don't dribble through a zone. Somehow, that age-old lesson eluded Georgia Tech Sunday. From the...
N.C. State head coach Kay Yow, 66, died Saturday morning after a decades-long fight with breast cancer. Yow announced Jan. 7 that she was too weak to coach anymore and would re-evaluate her...
Karima Christmas doesn't show much about herself on the surface. You wouldn't know she's a tenacious basketball player just from looking at her, save for her 5-foot-11 stature. And you wouldn't...
RALEIGH - What a difference a half makes. With N.C. State shooting lights-out and the Blue Devils looking sluggish on offense, Duke found itself trailing by nine at intermission. But the No. 4 Blue...
RALEIGH - When Duke's leading scorer Chante Black was sidelined with foul trouble for much of the first half, the Blue Devils called upon a player becoming more and more familiar with making big...
Tests come in numerous forms. Duke passed one Monday in its win over No. 12 Maryland at home on national television. The Blue Devils raced out to an 11-point halftime lead, and Jasmine Thomas made...