Duke Basketball

Duke Men's Basketball Returns Home To Host Miami Hoping To End January Struggles

... mid-January matchup also falls during a time in which Duke (14-4, 2-3 in the ACC) has historically played its worst basketball as of late. The team is just 2-7 in games held between Jan. 10 and Jan. 21 since 2015. Leading the Hurricanes (12-5, 2-3) will be a trio of guards that are the team’s only double-digit scorers. Senior Davon Reed is the team’s best offensive player, averaging 15.2 points per game, and is followed closely by junior Ja’Quan Newton and freshman Bruce Brown, who average 14.7 and 10.9 points per game, respectively. By Carolyn Chang / The Chronicle. Freshman Frank Jackson has been excellent at home as a shooter but struggled mightily away from the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium in recent weeks. The team makes up for its lack of offensive depth inside, though, with its team-wide emphasis on lockdown defense. ...

Undergraduate Student Attendance For Duke Men's Basketball Drops Over Time Despite High Interest In Tenting

... always as assured as it can seem to be for some games today.”. Other factors that have coincided with a drop in attendance during the last decade have been a lower undergraduate acceptance rate, a diversification of the student body and rapidly increasing tuition costs. Marion pointed out that it is hard to get students to prioritize basketball games if they want to make the most of their families’ investment in their education and did not grow up around ACC basketball. Erin Brown, Trinity '16 and former president of the Inferno—Duke’s student-run club that aims to increase attendance at all 26 varsity sports—agreed that a more academic environment has played a role in the recent attendance challenges. “At Duke, the academics have just been increasing in terms of prestige and difficulty,” Brown said. “One of these past years—I can’t remember what year it was—it was the first time more people had written about ...

Cougars Will Send Former Player With Terminal Cancer To Duke-unc Game

... to attend a Duke-North Carolina game is granted. Share This Article. ARTICLE PHOTO GALLERY (2). Provo • When BYU women's basketball coach Jeff Judkins wrote a letter to legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski a few weeks ago asking for a pair of tickets to the Feb. 9 Duke-North Carolina game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, he figured he wouldn't even get a response back, let alone the tickets. Boy, was he wrong. Once the folks at Duke read about the plight of former BYU women's basketball star Melanie Pearson Day, and how the Lehi mother of three had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and has less than five years to live, and how attending a Duke-North Carolina game at Cameron is one of her dying wishes, they were happy to oblige. TOP JOBS. "Coach K's secretary called me on the phone and said, 'Hey, we got your letter. We were in tears reading it. We want to do it for her,'" Judkins said. So the 38-year-old Day and her husband, Preston, an attorney in the Salt Lake City Prosecutor's Office, will make the trip to Durham, N. ...

A Primer On All Things Duke Basketball Heading Into The Grind Of The Acc Season

... Mike Krzyzewski's absence and what it might mean for Duke, whether this team will ever get Amile Jefferson back to double-double games and meaningful minutes - it was Allen's conduct that has generated the most media attention. "I've never seen this before. I especially have never seen it directed toward a college kid," Capel said Monday. "It's uncharted territory. The thing that we have talked to Grayson about is just worry about the team and worry about us. Focus on us, and not get caught up.". Capel went on to say that the scrutiny was coming from the media, not the fans. But even if the talking point is media generated, it's not like Allen is totally innocent in the situation either. Time and time again, he has put himself in a situation to be analyzed as a tripper, pusher or otherwise cheap-shot style player. Not the most ...

You Don’t Have To Look Hard To See What Duke’s Issues Are

... Bill Foster, who was better suited to building a program rather than maintaining one, found the pressure of being #1 insufferable. At one point he was taping the windows of Cameron so no one could watch practice. Whatever happens with this team, that’s never been a problem for Duke under Coach K, who embraces and indeed relishes the expectations. What’s happening this season is the bizarre rash of injuries has made it impossible for Duke to build any sort of continuity. That and the fact that this team has six freshmen (and of those the four bigs have all either been injured or, in the case of Harry Giles, recuperating from a high school injury). And of course Coach K has been out, which also hurts. He’s pretty brilliant at making adjustments. Defense overall is lacking but the perimeter D is better than interior defense and indeed ...

Second-half Comeback Comes Up Just Short For Duke Women's Basketball At No. 23 N.c. State

... doing, [but] we’re very disappointed we didn’t finish our work.”. After another forgettable first half on the road, the Blue Devils (15-3, 3-2 in the ACC) used a strong third quarter to cut into N. C. State’s lead, and retook the lead on a Lexie Brown 3-pointer with about eight minutes left in the game—their first lead since the first quarter. The triple brought the contingent of Duke fans back to life as the game became a back-and-forth affair, with the two teams trading baskets down to the wire. Brown and senior Oderah Chidom came alive to lead the Blue Devils in the fourth quarter, combining for 15 points in the second half after recording just two in the first half. Duke had several chances late in the game to tie or take the lead after Nelson's layup, but Brown missed a 3-pointer from the top of the key with five seconds left. After the Blue Devils fouled to get one final chance, Rebecca Greenwell stepped out of bounds to ...

No. 9 Florida State Overwhelms Duke Men's Basketball Inside With Jefferson Sidelined

... handful of signs—most with jabs at the junior’s tripping incidents—shown on the scoreboard at the Donald L. Tucker Center during the pregame shootaround. Things did not get much better for Allen and his team when they took the floor in front of a raucous Seminole crowd hoping to watch their team achieve the best start in program history. By Carolyn Chang / The Chronicle. Florida State guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes scored 18 of his 21 points after halftime, taking advantage of Duke's weak defense near the rim. No. 9 Florida State took control with a 10-0 run midway through the second half of an 88-72 win against No. 7 Duke Tuesday night. Sophomore Luke Kennard led the way for the Blue Devils with a team-high 23 points and freshman Jayson Tatum added 21, but Duke’s offense struggled against the Seminoles’ physicality on the perimeter and tied a season-high with 16 turnovers. “We just need to bring our own energy and come ...

Four Schools Making Strong Push For Undecided Recruit Kevin Knox

... both die-hard Seminoles fans. Knox had his official visit to Florida State earlier this month. He’ll visit Kentucky later this month, before his Feb. 4 visit to UNC. While Tampa Catholic was in Raleigh for the John Wall tournament in December, both Duke and UNC let the team have shootarounds in their practice gyms. The schools also gave the team tours of their campuses, and UNC gave Tampa Catholic tickets to its game against Monmouth. “The coaches are all really nice and they want the best for Kevin. You can tell,” Michelle Knox said. “I think of course they want their program to win, but it seems at this point they all really genuinely care about what his decision is and how he is going to be able to perform there to be in a position to grow.”. His to make. The younger Knox’s decision on where to play college basketball will involve his family but will ultimately be his to make. Knox said each of the schools on his list has a player who’s similar to him, and he’s watching how each team uses that player. “It’s going to be a tough decision for Kevin,” Michelle Knox said. “It really is. I think at this point, he knows it’s going to be tough, but he has to really ...