Posts Tagged ‘ACC Basketball’

This Is How Duke Does It

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

This, my friends, is Duke basketball’s attempt to “hip their program up and sell it to the young folk,” if I may borrow from David Cross. It’s a not a bad video, although, it seems to be a subconscious acknowledgment from the program that they understand the public perception of Duke outside of ESPN [...]

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Tar Heels Back On Top

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Something should be said for finishing the season the way you started, especially if that consists of starting and finishing in first place in the rankings. The team that started as the preseason number one finished the regular season back at the top of the ranking pile and as you can see in the [...]

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Jeff Teague Has A Parting Gift for Dave Neal

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

It’s senior night around college basketball this week. Time for the universities to show gratitude and respect to the players that stuck around and played out their eligibility. Such was the case at Maryland last night. One of the players the Terrapins were honoring was Dave Neal, a bit player forward who [...]

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Jon Scheyer’s Busy Day at Virginia Tech

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

It was a busy day for the Scheyer face in Blacksburg, VA, when Duke traveled — Scheyer too — to Virginia Tech, looking for another road win. The Blue Devils got the victory, 72-65, but it was not without some controversy. First, there was the elbow-to-the-throat incident that went uncalled or, apparently, unnoticed [...]

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Gerald Henderson Helps Duke Flush Maryland

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Duke went into hostile territory and with the help of Gerald Henderson, the Blue Devils dispatched a Maryland Terrapins team that had just beaten North Carolina. Henderson led his team with 19 points and a nasty, nasty tomahawk jam in the second half (45 second mark). It was a big win for the [...]

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Corey Maggette Learned To Travel at Duke

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, a video of Corey Maggette traveling six times in one play hit the tubes, helping reinforce just how poorly the traveling rule is enforced. Thanks to Duke’s game against Wake Forest this weekend, we now know where Maggette learned to walk with the ball with such flair: Duke [...]

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