So close to challenging the Eagles yet so far from coming home with a win, the Blue Devils started off on the wrong foot from the get-go.
Duke won big Sunday, but the story of the day was Maddie Jenner setting a new NCAA record for career draw controls in front of a home crowd.
Duke overcame a tough first opponent Friday afternoon to open its season with a win at home.
Now teammates as freshmen on this year's Duke's team, Madison Beale and Sydney Smith have taken parallel paths to Durham.
In 2022, a promising season for the Blue Devils crumbled down the stretch. To take the next step, Duke will have to brave a challenging ACC.
Duke has a tough ACC slate ahead, with marquee matchups against Boston College, Syracuse and North Carolina, but it has the potential to compete with anybody in the nation.
Coming in at No. 9: Duke women's lacrosse put together a strong season, highlighted by a record start and a thrilling win at home against Boston College.
Duke’s NCAA tournament run came to an end Sunday in College Park, Md., at the hands of the second-seeded Terrapins.
It was the Battle of the Blue; Blue Devils versus Blue Jays. And when all was said and done, Duke proved that its blue was better.
With the hosting team decked out in visiting jerseys and holding one last chance to punch its ticket to the NCAA tournament, Friday’s game was a classic underdog tale. But not for Duke, which had its conference tournament run cut short due to a locked-in Notre Dame squad.
The frontier of sports analytics only became widely available recently through hobbyist and crowdsourced data. Using the website Lacrosse Reference, which analyzes college teams using metrics beyond the stat sheet, let’s dive into how we can use these numbers by looking at the Duke women’s lacrosse team.
In the final game of the regular season, No. 1 North Carolina showed that it still has Duke’s number, handling the fifth-ranked Blue Devils 18-4, securing the ACC regular-season title and the top seed in the upcoming conference tournament in the process.
The seventh-ranked Blue Devils hosted No. 2 Boston College Saturday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium, where the crew delivered a 16-15 upset against the defending national champions.
Nothing in the ACC comes easy. Road games are even harder. And Thursday night in Blacksburg, the Blue Devils came face-to-face with seeing their seven-game winning streak snapped.
With just under seven minutes left in the second period, No. 7 Duke trailed No. 16 Virginia 6-4. It seemed that every Blue Devil offensive possession was stunted with a foul or a turnover, and that they wouldn’t be able to compete with the Cavaliers. Until Katie DeSimone decided otherwise.
History. The undisputed draw control queen. Maddie Jenner, take a bow. To start the third quarter, Jenner broke a record. With the 513th draw control of her career and her 142nd of the season, Maddie moved into sole possession of the Duke program record.
DeSimone led Duke in the contest with four goals and one assist. Barry and senior Maddie Jenner followed in suit, with Barry scoring two goals and three assists and Jenner tallying three goals and 13 draw controls.
“Every year I'm like, ‘Oh it's not a big deal,’ and it is actually kind of hard because you want her to do well and I want her team to do really well but obviously this is a day where we want to make sure Duke prevails,” Kimel said after the game.
“We came out strong. We pushed the fast break, pushed the secondary break, and we're getting a lot of looks,“ Catriona Barry said.
Maddie’s start to the season shows precisely the playing ability that she’s developed over the years. As a senior leader wearing the same shoes as her sister Olivia wore three years ago, Maddie is going nowhere but up.
