Duke Basketball

Turnovers, Foul Trouble Doom Duke Men's Basketball At Louisville In Third Straight Acc Road Defeat

... freshmen. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Through 12 minutes, the Blue Devils’ second top-15 road test of the week could not have been going much better. No. 7 Duke had built a 19-12 lead at No. 14 Louisville, taking a raucous KFC Yum! Center crowd out of the game with more disciplined interior defense and patient offense predicated on driving the ball to the rim. By Juan Bermudez / The Chronicle. Louisville center Anas Mahmoud had his way in the post with a career-high 17 points and 11 rebounds with Blue Devil forward Amile Jefferson sidelined. But the Cardinals gave the Blue Devils a dose of their own medicine by attacking the rim at will to close the period, forcing Duke to relive its nightmare from just four days ago at No. 9 Florida State. Louisville used a 20-5 spurt to break out of a miserable shooting slump and get its pressure defense going in a 78-69 win against the Blue Devils. Although Duke cut the lead to four at halftime and even re-took the lead early in the second half, a season-high 18 Blue ...

Dominant Second Quarter Sparks No. 12 Duke Women's Basketball Against North Carolina

... shot just 4-of-26 from 3-point range. In her final home game against North Carolina, Cooper set the tone defensively with an emphatic block that had the Cameron Crazies going wild from the first minute of the game. Although Chidom came off the bench for the first time this season—Mc Callie said she is just rotating Cooper, Chidom, Odom and junior Erin Mathias inside—she too went right to work in the paint. The Blue Devils fed off the strong start inside after a back-and-forth opening period, then went on to take Tar Heel star Stephanie Watts and her teammates out of the game in the second quarter. Watts, North Carolina’s leading scorer, made 10 3-pointers in a game earlier this season, but struggled to find much airspace because of Duke’s length. She finished with just 15 points on 6-of-14 shooting and a game-high seven turnovers. “We didn’t want to get in a running race with them. We wanted to get solid stops on the defensive end,” Brown said. “This season we’ve really been preaching defense and steals, and I think Kyra and I have been growing every game at being able to read each other off the ball. We’re both at the top of that zone ...

Jefferson Exits With First-half Injury As Duke Men's Basketball Holds Off Boston College

... Bowman scored nine quick points in the first half before going cold, but finished with 19 as the Eagles mounted their run by taking the ball to the basket relentlessly. “We were just young there. We thought that the game was over and that we can do whatever we want and not play defense—and then they made a run,” Jones said. “We knew they could be very explosive on offense and they got hot. Sophomore guard Jerome Robinson also caught fire late on his way to a 21-point effort to aid the comeback effort. Tatum and freshman Marques Bolden both finished with four fouls trying to protect the rim, and Giles fouled out at the 3:41 mark with 12 points and five rebounds in a season-high 24 minutes. But after missing the start of the season with their own injuries, Giles and Tatum made enough plays late to keep Boston College at arm’s ...

Dee Brown's Daughter Has No. 12 Duke Climbing

... confidence, the thoroughness of her game — she can shoot the 3-ball, but she has a midrange game and she can go to the rack and get fouled," Mc Callie said. "She has so many elements to what her game is.". Duke (14-2, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) brings its highest national ranking of the year into its first matchup of the season with top rival North Carolina on Thursday night. With Brown sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, the Blue Devils fell out of the AP Top 25 for the first time since 1999 and missed their first NCAA Tournament in 22 years. Unable to travel with the team on road trips, Brown said she "had a lot of time to myself in the gym" and kept busy by doing individual work. Now that she's playing, they're winning again, and Duke doesn't see that as a coincidence. Its 10-game winning streak, which included home wins over No. 3 South Carolina and No. 8 Louisville , ended with a loss at No. 6 Florida State on Sunday. She learned the game from her famous — if, at 6-foot-1, undersized — father when she was 7 or 8 years old, and they ...

Duke, Nc State At Early Acc Crossroads

... historic capitulation in Chapel Hill wanted an acknowledgment that the previous two games didn’t come close to meeting the standards of N. C. State basketball, even if it’s never been harder to win on the road in the ACC (and N. C. State is 1-0 at home and back there Sunday). Home teams are 22-8 in ACC play. UNC (2-1) and Notre Dame (2-0) account for half the league's road wins. — Luke De Cock (@Luke De Cock) January 13, 2017. It’s going to take more than words to turn N. C. State around, anyway. If Dennis Smith Jr. struggles the way he did at North Carolina, and to a lesser degree Boston College, there’s not a lot of upside for the Wolfpack, which has a lot of parts that don’t seem to fit together very well. Gottfried’s teams have historically improved over the course of the season, and the time to get moving in that direction is now. Duke has, over the course of ...

Duke Men's Basketball Hoping To Contain Red-hot Florida State Without Jefferson In First Top-10 Road Game Of 2016-17

... once again. But this time, they will need to weather a storm without their co-captain. With Jefferson sidelined with a  right-foot bone bruise, the seventh-ranked Blue Devils will face the first of two consecutive road tests against top-15 opponents when they take on No. 9 Florida State Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in Tallahassee, Fla. “Amile is as important of a player as we have. His importance, his value cannot be measured by just numbers, and the numbers are incredibly impressive,” interim head coach Jeff Capel said on the ACC's weekly teleconference Monday. “Coaches really value the things that he does, the leadership, the talking, the experience.”. Although Duke’s highly-touted freshmen and guard Grayson Allen have garnered many of the headlines so far this season, Jefferson has served as the ultimate glue-guy on the court and enters the contest averaging a double-double at 13.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. ...

College Basketball Top 25 Winners, Losers

... over. Now, college basketball takes center stage and Saturday's action from across the country was just a small taste of the fun to come. Let's take a look back at who came away as the biggest winners and losers. Winner: Jim Larranaga/Miami. Two days after pushing No. 20 Notre Dame Fighting Irish to the brink, Miami annihilated a very solid Pitt team by 26 points, 72-46. Pitt's star forward, Michael Young, played with his eye swollen almost completely shut and reserve Ryan Luther sat out with a foot injury. Regardless, the surprisingly lopsided win was notable. It moved Larranaga, who has been with Miami since 2011, to 600 career wins. Wait for it. — Canes Hoops (@Canes Hoops) January 14, 2017. Winner: Florida Gators 's underhanded sharpshooter. How about this for a stat? Florida's bench outscored the Georgia Bulldogs bench 51-5 en route to a 80-76 home win. But that wasn't even the best stat of the day. Florida's Canyon Barry finished the game with a team-high 27 points - and hit all 8 of his free-throw attempts on the game. — SEC Network (@SECNetwork) January 14, 2017. Loser: Grayson Allen 's ...

Ucla Leads Duke On Ncaa Tournament Betting Futures

... home streak with a 97-92 win back in December, proving that the team could match up with anyone. Duke (+525 to win the NCAA Tournament) hasn't looked sharp of late with a 2-2 SU and 1-3 ATS record over its last four games with two blowout losses on the road. The Blue Devils have an excellent core with some good experience sprinkled in, and this should be a dangerous team in March if it can start clicking. The antics of Grayson Allen have become a distraction for Duke, and could be factoring into the team's recent struggles. The Wildcats (+550) seem to be playing their way toward a No. 1 seed in March with a 14-2 SU and 11-5 ATS record through the first 16 games of the season. Kentucky's freshman guard tandem of Malik Monk and De'Aaron Fox has created matchup problems for opposing defenses all season long, leading the Wildcats to the second-best offense in the country averaging 93.8 points per game. The Wildcats are looking for their first championship since 2012. Nipping on the heels of the three favorites are a handful of solid contenders including Kansas (+1200), ...

Louisville Upends Duke; No. 1 Baylor And No. 2 Kansas Escape With Wins

... cruised past their Division II opponent. Creighton (17-1) dunked eight times and put the Bulldogs away with a 17-2 run in the second half that pushed the lead to 75-46. Truman State (13-4), playing its third game in three days, missed eight of its first nine shots and Creighton got out to leads of 17-3, 26-8 and 43-23. Connor Erickson led the Bulldogs with 10 points. at No. 11 North Carolina 96, No. 9 Florida State 83: Joel Berry II scored 26 points as the Tar Heels snapped the Seminoles' school-record winning streak. Justin Jackson and Isaiah Hicks each added 22 points for the Tar Heels (16-3, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who played from in front nearly all day but didn't put the Seminoles away until a 14-2 run in the final 5 1/2 minutes finally gave them a comfortable lead. Jonathan Isaac had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Seminoles (16-2, 4-1), who had won 12 in a row and stood at 4-0 in the ACC for the first time ...

Scores, Updates, Highlights From Saturday's Games

... last three against ranked teams. They play their fourth of six consecutive games against Top-25 opponents on Saturday against No. 11 North Carolina. The Tar Heels have won three straight games after squeaking past Wake Forest 93-87 on Wednesday. Players to watch. Florida State guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes had 21 points in the team’s win over Duke on Tuesday, and is averaging 11.1 points and 4.6 assists on the year. North Carolina guard Joel Berry II has started all 16 games in which he has played, and is averaging 15.6 points and a team-high 4.6 assists while hitting 42.2 percent of his 3-point shots. Key stats. Florida State and Notre Dame are the only ACC teams without a conference loss this season. The Tar Heels won the only meeting last season in Tallahassee, 106-90. Florida State has lost six straight games to North Carolina, with the last win coming in the 2012 ACC Tournament Final. Forward Justin Jackson leads the Tar Heels with 17.7 points per game. North Carolina is 8-0 at home this season. ...