The news that former Memphis basketball player Tarik Black has opted to transfer to Kansas instead of Duke means really one thing for the Blue Devils: They’ll be small, very small. Black the 6-foot-9 big man graduated from Memphis and opted to transfer for his final year of eligibility. Apparently he found a home in
The expectations for the Duke 2013-2014 Blue Devils men’s basketball team are sky high, but their opportunity to meet those expectations could be limited. The Blue Devils return a solid nucleus and will surround them with an exciting recruiting class, but as often is the case in this day and age it might be a
The 2012-2013 Duke men’s basketball season was one that started with a great deal of uncertainty and ended with one big disappointment but all in all it was a successful season. It was not a great season, Duke did not win the ACC regular season or tournament championships, and they failed to make the Final
If the NCAA Tournament got some exciting games over the last two days, the Duke-Creighton game was not one of them. Duke managed to hold off the Blue Jays in their first ever meeting winning 66 to 50 for their 2000 victory as a school and more importantly it is a victory that will send them to
For weeks analysts, fans and even the Duke coaches have been talking about the Blue Devils getting Ryan Kelly back and re-integrating him back into the lineup. The thought was that with Kelly back, Duke would surge back to the top of the college basketball world. It appears that Kelly, whose return was a 36-point
It is understandable that after Ryan Kelly’s 36 point performance, one head coach Mike Krzyzewski called a performance “for the ages,” that many would be in a frenzy. The excitement in the Duke fan base is palpable, but some members of the media also have taken Kelly’s re-emergence and subsequent performance to say that Duke
After Duke’s 89-68 victory over Boston College, much of the talk wasn’t necessarily about how strong a performance the Blue Devils had. It wasn’t about how freshman Rasheed Sulaimon strengthened his case for being the ACC freshman of the year or how Mason Plumlee recorded another double double. That was all ho hum compared to
