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3/10 March Madness 2010: Teams Built to Beat the Duke Blue Devils
I’m taking some liberties here assuming Duke gets a No. 1 seed, I know. I’m assuming Duke wins a couple games in the ACC Tournament and holds off West Virginia and Ohio State for the final one seed. In all honesty, you can make a good case for all three of ..
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3/10 Duke Basketball: Looking Forward To The ACC and NCAA Tournaments
It's March and you know what that means, the madness is just beginning. The regular season is over for the Duke Blue Devils, but the ACC and NCAA tournaments are just ahead. The big three (Scheyer, Smith, and Singler) have been playing extremely well leading this team..
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3/10 WIN ACC TOURNAMENT TICKETS
That's right, folks. I got ‘em, you want ‘em. Actually what I have is a pair of tickets for the ACC Championship game, this Sunday. The seats are located in the 200 section. The deal is, I wanted to go, I was planning to go, but a family event has come up and I ..
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3/10 Duke Basketball's Success Needs a New Measuring Stick
On the eve of the ACC Tournament I have been thinking a lot about Duke Basketball. It is natural for any fan to ponder the strengths and weaknesses of their team before a big tournament. In addition to this season I've been thinking about the last few years, the l..
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3/9 Scheyer Comes in Second to Vasquez
For Jon Scheyer, the 2009-2010 season was highlighted by his breakthrough performance. He averaged career highs in points (18.9), assists (5.2), free throw percentage (0.889) and three-point field goal percentage (0.399). He was instrumental in anchoring the nation’s best t..
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3/9 NCAA Bracketbusters: A 16-Seed Will Topple a Top-Seed In March Madness
A 16-seed will beat a number one seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Just telling you right now, it’s going to happen—this year. It's a 16-seed odyssey. Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, or Syracuse will lose in the first round of this NCAA Tournament. The shot hea..
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3/9 Heel of a Challenge: Can UNC Win Four Games in Four Days?
by Jim Henry Filed under: Boston College , Clemson , Duke , Georgia Tech , Maryland , NC State , UNC , Virginia , Virginia Tech , ACC , March Madness , North Carolina , NCAA Tournament , Florida State Four wins in four days. That's what North Carolina must do to win the Atla..
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3/9 2009-2010 All-ACC EVERYTHING
Welcome to Big Duke Ball's third-annual Award Show. It's time to hand out the hardware. The official ACC awards came out today, but I purposely avoided them so as not to be influenced by them. The fact is, I've known most of the first, second and third teams for a while now..
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3/9 Examining The ACC Tournament
Duke's smashing of North Carolina on Saturday night marked the end of the regular season and the beginning of Championship Week. The ACC Tournament begins on Thursday with four first round matchups and the Blue Devils begin play on Friday when they face the winner of the Bo..
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3/8 Five Teams Duke Doesn't Want to Meet In the 2010 NCAA Tournament
On Saturday, the No. 4 ranked Duke Blue Devils routed the North Carolina Tar Heels, 82-50, to claim the top seed in the upcoming ACC tournament. If Duke wins the ACC Tournament, they are likely looking at a No. 1 seed in the 2010 NCAA tournament. That is a huge if, though. D..
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3/7 ACC Basketball Rankings March 8 - March 15: Hokies Punch NCAA Ticket
Congratulations to Virginia Tech and Florida State. By getting those 10th ACC conference wins this week, they are headed to the NCAA tournament. Wake Forest also stopped the bleeding to get to 9-7 in the ACC, and I think they are a lock too. Georgia Tech had the kind of wee..
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3/7 Five Highly-Ranked Teams Poised to Lose Early in the NCAA Tournament
There is no clear number one team in college basketball this season. Many teams have a legitimate chance to make it deep into the NCAA Tournament. However, the following teams aren't going to make it deep into the tourney, even though some might believe otherwise. To me, al..
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3/7 So Glad To Hear it Nolan….
He's back… Well he's coming back anyway!
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3/7 This Time, Roy Williams Couldn’t Do Anything
Not everybody in the student section was wearing Duke apparel on Saturday night. Indeed, if you looked carefully, you can see one man wearing a “Presbyterian College” sweater amongst a crowd of Cameron Crazies. Courtesy of the News & Observer Some will recognize this man as..
Source: The Chronicle's Sports Blog » Men’s Basketball

3/7 GameDay Discusses Duke's NCAA Bid
The Blue Devils put on a phenomenal performance for the Cameron Crazies last night, exploding on the Tar Heels on their way to an 82-50 victory, the second most lopsided in this rivalry. While they were busy celebrating, four ESPN experts were sitting on a makeshift stage o..
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3/7 No 1 Seed, No 2 Seed…It doesn't Matter
It's that time of year again when all the important people who write about college basketball are debating, who's in, who's out, who's sitting on the wrong side of the bubble and of course, who's going to be a No 1 seed. The last one really is pointless, because in the gran..
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3/7 Cry Me a Tar Heel
You have to hand it to those North Carolina bloggers, they are classless in victory and they're clueless in defeat. Checkout The Fifth Corner after Duke's victory yesterday. Actually, don't bother….I'll give you the highlights myself. First this: From what I read arou..
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3/7 VIDEO: Duke Postgame Bonfire Celebration

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3/7 VIDEO: Jon Scheyer Senior Game Speech

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3/7 VIDEO: Final Seconds of Duke-North Carolina Game

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3/7 VIDEO: Roy Williams Furious During Timeout

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3/7 VIDEO: Senior Jon Scheyer Introduced at Senior Night

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3/7 PHOTOS: Duke-UNC
Wow. What a victory. Check out some of Chronicle photographers Michael Naclerio and Courtney Douglas's images from Duke's 82-50 home victory over Tobacco Road rival UNC. Below are some photos of what is arguably the best fan base in college basketball. After a month and a h..
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3/7 Baby Blue Looks Black and Blue
Wow. Wow. Wow. It's the only word I can come up with. I alm0st had pity on the Tar Heel players…almost. The Duke Blue Devils wrapped up a perfect season (17-0) in Cameron Indoor Stadium, by crushing North Carolina, 82-50. It was the greatest ass-kicking of Carolina i..
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3/6 No. 4 Duke puts away North Carolina to clinch top spot in ACC tourney
DURHAM, N.C. — (AP) Kyle Singler scored 19 of his 25 points in the decisive first half and No. 4 Duke routed North Carolina 82-50 on Saturday night. Jon Scheyer had 20 points in his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Blue Devils (26-5, 13-3), who earned their..
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3/6 Duke Destroys the Lighter Blue 82-50
Congrats to the Devils for grabbing that ACC regular season crown in impressive fashion. Rivalry or not Duke came out on a mission and never really allowed the Heels any space to operate. One tweet described it as UNC getting smoke-monstered by Duke. I would agree with that..
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3/6 Blue Devil Seniors Exorcise Demons
by Ray Holloman Filed under: Duke , North Carolina DURHAM, NC -- When Jon Scheyer was finally finished, after 36 grueling minutes of his brand of basketball, bouncing his wiry frame off everything on the court like a cue ball ball in a billiards game, he hugged everyone with..
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3/6 March to Victory
Jon Scheyer always seems to play well against the Tar Heels. We need another great shooting performance from Jonny on his senior night. (courtesy DukeBluePlanet.com) Tonight is an opportunity. Duke can break a tie with Maryland for first place in the ACC and potentially gra..
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3/6 Duke-UNC Clash Means More Than Usual Tonight
Tonight marks the 229th time that the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils will be opponents on the basketball court. Both teams have had different paths this season, Carolina has struggled mightily after losing the core of their national championship team, while D..
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3/6 UNC-Duke: Recounting the Best of the 2000s in Sports' Greatest Rivalry
To me, North Carolina-Duke will forever remain the greatest sports rivalry on earth—amateur and professional sports included—no if's, and's, or but's attached. Now, I know and understand one could arguably make a legitimate case for a handful of rivalries across ..
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3/6 Duke Seniors Restore Legacy of Leadership
by Ray Holloman Filed under: Duke In the final game of the regular season, in the final home game of their careers, in a rivalry that, along Tobacco Road where the complete first words of the Almighty are long understand to be, "Let there be light ... blue and dark blue," ma..
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3/5 Turning of the Tide, Study of Speculation
Can you hear it, can you feel it? It’s the sweat dripping on the floor, the trash talking between shades of blue; it’s the infamous punch, the half court buzzer beater, and the bloody nose. It’s the speedy guards and bruising bigs, the sweet three point shooting and precis..
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3/4 Bubble Trouble Finds Wake Forest, ACC
by Jim Henry Filed under: Clemson , Duke , Georgia Tech , Maryland , Virginia Tech , Wake Forest , ACC , March Madness , Florida State For the rest of the world, February is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. For Wake Forest head coach Dino Gaudio..
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3/4 March Madness Appetizer: Tricky Terrapins Upend Duke Blue Devils
For the Duke Blue Devils, walking into the Comcast Cole Center had to feel like walking into college basketball's version of an ambush. Or a dojo full of crabcake eating ninjas, hurling three-quarter court traps and matchup zones like they were Chinese stars…or Greivi..
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3/4 Duke/Maryland…Best Ever? Not Even Close
Over at the ">Testudo Times (one of the better Maryland blogs by the way), they asked a good question… Was Maryland-Duke the Best Ever in Comcast? God no, right? But then I re-read the question and the short answer is actually yes. Why? Because they're careful to add..
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3/4 Terps Outshoot Devils 79-72
Congrats to the Terps for taking it to the devils and withstanding the duke runs. Duke battled an emotional Terps team on senior night, and nearly pulled it off. I don't think this will hurt Dukes chances at a 1 seed. This was a game that the Terps had to have and one Duke ..
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3/4 Devils Come Up a ‘Terp' Short
Duke blew it. It's as simple as that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to take anything away from Maryland, but the Blue Devils, and in particularly Jon Scheyer, threw this one away at the end (more on that in a minute). In the end, the Blue Devils will get some love from ..
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3/4 ACC PLAYER OF THE YEAR IS…
It's not Jon Scheyer. Sorry. Instead, the award belongs to Greivis Vasquez. I've said all along, the award was Scheyer's all season long. He was clearly, for a long time, the best player in this league, but over the last month, things began to slowly change. Scheyer got col..
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3/4 Duke Basketball: Thoughts, Concerns, and A Question For Maryland Fans
March is officially here and if Wednesday night's game at Maryland is any indication, those with weak hearts best turn their TVs off. With the loss Duke falls to 25-5 and into a tie for first place in the ACC. If both Maryland and Duke win out this weekend the ACC will have..
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3/3 Time for Duke Blue Devils To Evolve?
Mike Krzyzewski has amassed over 800 victories at the collegiate level; three of those have secured national championships. An Olympic gold medal in 2008 has further cemented his place among the greatest coaches of all time, be it at any level. But perhaps his most rem..
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3/3 Duke Comes Up Short at Both Ends
by David Steele Filed under: Duke , Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- No college basketball program in the nation is unbeatable this season, and Duke is no exception, despite having won eight straight games before arriving at Comcast Center Wednesday night to face Maryland . So ..
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3/3 In Beating Duke, Maryland Proves a Point
by David Steele Filed under: Duke , Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Gary Williams couldn't resist, and he shouldn't have had to. A little over a year ago, when it seemed that his team couldn't do anything right, couldn't reach the end of the season without sweating out an NCAA..
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3/3 Maryland Live Blog – Only On Twitter
Tonight, Big Duke Balls (i.e. me) will be live-blogging the Duke/Maryland game on Twitter. This is a first for me. Sure I've lived blog a couple of Duke/North Carolina games before on this site, but never on Twitter. Ironically, the wife likes it when I live-blog games. Nor..
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3/3 ACC Hoops: Duke Blue Devils vs. Maryland Terrapins: How It Plays Out
Much like the huge Big East battle between Syracuse and Villanova last Saturday night, the game between Duke and Maryland in College Park will be played with a conference championship and No. 1 national seed on the line. In the first game between these two ACC powerhouses, ..
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3/3 Stakes Sizzling as Duke Meets Maryland
by David Steele Filed under: Duke , Maryland , ACC COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The sexy sound bite of the week from Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was, "I don't look at any of our games in the ACC as a rivalry game'' -- two days before his team was to play at Maryland with the conferen..
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3/2 Recruits At The Duke-UNC Game
The Duke-UNC game is this weekend and recruits are finalizing plans to attend the grueling matchup. Due to extra pre-season practices held by St. Patrick's Head Coach Kevin Boyle, the Celtics are not allowed to participate in the state tournament. This bad news does mean tha..
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3/2 The G-Man Vs Air Jordan, Who You Got?
If you missed it, soon-to-be majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats and former Tar Heel, Michael Jordan, challenged our own Gerald Henderson to a game of H.O.R.S.E. Word is, Jordan likes to come to practice and talk trash during the shoot around. He's Jordan, he can do tha..
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3/1 Duke Takes it to UVA
Without their leading scorer UVA really never had a chance in this game. It's unfortunate because watching Sylven Landesberg play is a treat. He is a star in the ACC and would have put some good pressure on Dukes defense both off the dribble and from distance. So really thi..
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2/27 Boom Goes The Dynamite: 02.27.10 Edition
Now it's getting serious. College basketball teams across the country now fall into one of four camps: bored, because they know their NCAA bid is secure; resigned, because they've known for a long time that they're out; relieved, because they think they've played their way..
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