Duke Basketball

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

... on the offensive end with 23 points, but did not get much help from the Blue Devils' talented 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 ...

Dee Brown's Daughter Has No. 12 Duke Climbing

... has made a school-record 53 consecutive free throws, and her poise is one reason the 12 th-ranked Blue Devils are back among the top teams in women's basketball after a one-year blip. (AP Photo/Ben Mc Keown, File). Dee Brown's daughter has No. 12 Duke climbing. By JOEDY Mc CREARY AP Sports Writer. Jan 11, 2017. Ben Mc Keown. FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2016, file photo, Duke's Lexie Brown (4) celebrates with her teammates following a victory in an NCAA college basketball game against South Carolina, in Durham, N. C. Lexie Brown’s father is best known for his creative dunks. The daughter of Dee Brown is drawing attention for making a more mundane shot with uncommon consistency. The versatile Duke guard has made a school-record 53 consecutive free throws, and her poise is one reason the 12 th-ranked Blue Devils are back among the top teams in women's basketball after a one-year blip. ...

Crisp Ball Movement Fuels Emphatic Duke Men's Basketball Rout Of Georgia Tech In Allen's Return

... Matt Jones each drilled multiple 3-pointers in the first half, and the Blue Devils took a 31-point lead into the locker room. Jackson reached double figures in scoring for the first time since November with 15 points off the bench on 5-of-9 shooting, including four triples. “We’ve given them a chance to get to know each other and roles that would be familiar for them,” Krzyzewski said. “Sometimes you’re asking these guys to do a little bit more than they can do, and then they forget what they can do. They try to do a little bit more instead of being themselves.”. Perhaps the most encouraging sign for Duke's future this year, though, came less than a minute into the second half, when Tatum threw a lob to classmate Harry Giles for a powerful two-handed alley-oop. Less than two minutes later, Giles—who started for the first time of his career—took a pass from Allen on the baseline and elevated for another dunk. “We wanted to ...

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

... in opposing defenders, freshman Frank Jackson and senior Matt Jones have benefited with open looks from beyond the arc. The duo has combined to shoot 12-of-25 from deep in Duke’s last two games. “As a team, we can be very explosive when we play together, and it’s fun playing that way, so we just want to keep it going,” Jones said after the Boston College game. But clean looks will be at a premium against Florida State’s aggressive perimeter defense, with the Seminoles looking for a signature home victory after matching their best start in program history with a 15-point win against Virginia Tech. Florida State already won at another ACC contender in Virginia 60-58 Dec. 31 when Bacon scored 26 second-half points, including the game-winning 3-pointer in the game's waning seconds. That victory is a main reason the Seminoles (15-1, 3-0) enter the contest ranked in the top 10 during the regular season for the first time since 1993 and started a six-game stretch for Florida State against ranked opponents. After ...

College Basketball Top 25 Winners, Losers

... now they're 2-3 in ACC play and FSU and Louisville made them look pretty ordinary at times. Loser: The Atlantic 10. Richmond Spiders is atop the conference standings with a perfect 5-0 record, which nobody predicted. Dayton Flyers took a surprisingly bad loss earlier in the week to Massachusetts Minutemen , then turned around to hand VCU a loss on Saturday. Meanwhile, Rhode Island Rams , which was considered one of the top teams entering the season, has already suffered two losses in the A-10, to Dayton and La Salle Explorers. The outlook for the conference is looking slightly more bleak than it was in the preseason because of it. It may be a three-bid league at best given the current landscape of the conference and the way early conference play has unfolded. Winner: Connecticut Huskies women. Geno ...

Duke Women's Basketball Hungry To Bounce Back Against Rivals North Carolina, N.c. State

... causing 20 Duke miscues for the whole contest. With their two stars flustered by the pressure and unable to break through, the other Blue Devils struggled to create their own offense inside, allowing the Seminoles to gradually pull away in the second half. “When people play aggressive on you, you have to slow down and you have to execute, and we didn’t do that,” Mc Callie said. “We’ve been trying to play the game from the outside in too much, so people are coming out on us, and switching onto Lexie and Becca, or doubling.”. Duke (14-2, 2-1 in the ACC) will find no respite from aggressive defense this week—North Carolina gives up just 63.5 points per game, and the Wolfpack own the 16 th-best scoring defense in the nation, yielding only 54.4 per contest. One of the key problems that plagued the Blue Devils’ offense Sunday was an inability to score from the perimeter without their two best players rolling—for the first time this season, Duke did not hit a single 3-pointer. To avoid an upset at home against the Tar Heels ...

Scores, Updates, Highlights From Saturday's Games

... Musketeers are 10-0 this season when scoring 70 points and 36-3 since the start of last year when doing so. Xavier guard Trevon Bluiett is averaging a team-leading 17.3 points per game but is shooting 30 percent (6-for-20) from the field over the last two games. The Musketeers are outrebounding opponents by 7.7 rebounds per game, one of the top marks in the Big East. Butler is 4-1 against ranked opponents this season while Xavier is 0-2. The Bulldogs are shooting 38.7 percent from beyond the arc while holding opponents to 29.9 percent. Butler forward Andrew Chrabascz is the only other Bulldog averaging double figures in scoring with 11.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. The Bulldogs are 9-0 at Hinkle Fieldhouse this season and 37-8 at home since the start of the 2014 season. Baylor at Kansas State. Baylor’s reign atop the college basketball world may only last until Sunday no matter the outcome of its matchup against Kansas State. Just one day after the Bears earned their first No. 1 ranking on Monday, they dropped an 89-68 ...

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

... 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 length. “We’d love to have the defense first, but sometimes when the defense is not going, you have to have the offense,” Giles said. “We just wanted to get it going on offense, and we picked it up toward the end of the second half.”. Duke’s leading scorer, ...

Duke, Nc State At Early Acc Crossroads

... 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 the season, never seemed to know which of its many parts will be healthy on any given night, and there are increasingly questions about how those parts fit together as well. Between Mike Krzyzewski’s absence due to back surgery, the incredible scrutiny on anything and everything Grayson Allen does (brought entirely on himself, to be sure) and what appear to be developing on-court chemistry issues, this has been a topsy-turvy season for Duke even without the inexorable waves of injuries. Duke has had its full rotation healthy for only two games, and Amile Jefferson left the second injured. If Jefferson misses Saturday’s game at Louisville – and he is not expected ...

Yellow Jackets Pull Another Upset

... Colson had a lousy birthday from the floor, shooting just 2-11 but he grabbed 11 rebounds. Matt Farrell had 15 and Steve Vasturia, the baby-faced assassin, had 10. Davon Reed had 21 points to lead Miami. The ‘Canes wore throwback Jerseys to the ‘60 s era and earlier in the day, announced that VCU transfer Michael Gilmore had been booted from the program for not meeting standards. So now the question is: when do Miami and Notre Dame meet. As it happens, next week. Notre Dame visits Virginia Tech this weekend while Florida State treks up to Chapel Hill for a visit with the cheese and whiners. If they both win - which is by no means certain - then the two would square off on Wednesday night in Tallahassee. In Raleigh, Mark Gottfried had bit of a ridiculous blowback over his post-BC comments. When a ...

Push By Duke's Allen Not 'dirty

... Allen was intentional with his actions. "We teach kids to run down loose balls and make hustle plays," Gates said. "That's what he did. He was just trying to get back in the play. "Out of reaction, he put his hands up to protect himself," he continued. "He didn't push me. He was just protecting himself.". Gates also told ESPN there was no verbal exchange from Allen. "No words were exchanged on the play," he said. "It was just a basketball play.". Tuesday was Allen's first road game since his suspension for tripping Elon guard Steven Santa Ana on Dec. 21. Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski's one-game punishment was widely criticized for being too lenient. That scrutiny only intensified after Duke defeated Boston College 93-82 on Saturday, when Allen appeared to trip Eagles forward Connar Tava. A statement issued by the ACC stated, "There is nothing conclusive that can be determined" as to ...