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A meeting between Duke and North Carolina often has implications on national rankings, and certainly has a big impact on Atlantic Coast Conference standings in nearly all seasons. While neither the Blue Devils and Tar Heels are ranked in the Top 25 this season and they aren’t at the top of the ACC standings, Saturday’s […]

Duke basketball star Dariq Whitehead won’t be available to play against North Carolina on Saturday because of a leg injury. The Blue Devils had been hoping for a positive Dariq Whitehead injury update. Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer indicated earlier in the week that the standout freshman might be ready to make his return […]

The rivalry between Duke and UNC is being mentioned in the same breath as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox ahead of Saturday’s much-anticipated college basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.  Saturday’s game is the first Duke vs. UNC matchup since the ACC teams met in last year’s Final Four. ESPN’s Seth Greenberg […]

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (14-8) visit the Duke Blue Devils (15-6) on Tuesday night. Action tips off at 7:00 p.m. ET. Below we continue our College Basketball odds series with a Wake Forest-Duke prediction, pick, and how to watch. Wake Forest has lost three straight games but still sits at 6-5 and in eighth […]

Duke basketball legend Coach K and former star player Kyrie Irving shared a heartwarming reunion on Saturday ahead of the Brooklyn Nets-New York Knicks game, per Jomboy Media. Kyrie and Coach K pre game 💙 pic.twitter.com/tflNSFzquN — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) January 28, 2023 Coach K is one of the greatest college basketball head coaches of […]

If you look around the NBA, there are Duke alumni everywhere. In fact, 25 players from the Blue Devils are currently in the Association, including Orlando Magic phenom Paolo Banchero, who is surely a lock to win Rookie of the Year. And as Banchero explained recently to Basketball News, the Duke brotherhood played a huge […]

College Basketball action continues on ESPN as the Duke Blue Devils (14-5) travel to Blacksburg to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies (11-8). Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke-Virginia Tech prediction and pick. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has become the most hotly-contested conference in college hoops. Nine teams sit within three […]

The Duke Blue Devils take on the Clemson Tigers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke Clemson prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Duke vs Clemson. The Clemson Tigers have become an unexpectedly big story in this college basketball season. They are 6-0 in the ACC, leading Miami by one […]

The Pitt Panthers take on the Duke Blue Devils. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Pitt Duke prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Pitt vs Duke. The Duke Blue Devils have to decide what kind of team they want to become this season. This journey has been a predictably rocky […]

The Duke Blue Devils got punched in the mouth Wednesday by the NC State Wolfpack, with Duke basketball suffering an embarrassing 84-60 loss to the unranked hosts. If that sounded like a type of loss the Blue Devils had not absorbed before, it’s because it is. In fact, it’s the largest loss of a ranked […]

The Duke Blue Devils take on the NC State Wolfpack. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke NC State prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Duke vs NC State. The Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina State Wolfpack have similar records: Duke is 11-3, NC State 11-4. Yet, the two […]

The Duke Blue Devils take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke Wake Forest prediction and pick. Duke is going to be without two starters for this game. Just hours before tipoff, it was announced the Dereck Lively and Dariq Whitehead will miss this game. Coach […]

The Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Duke Blue Devils in New York. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Iowa Duke prediction and pick. Iowa basketball has shown the ability to continuously produce NBA-level players under coach Fran McCaffery. Luka Garza has had a limited NBA career because of his lack of defensive […]

The Boston College Eagles take on the Duke Blue Devils. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Boston College Duke prediction and pick. Duke has had an eventful, up-and-down season under new coach Jon Scheyer, who is taking the reins from Mike Krzyzewski. You knew this would not be an easy transition for […]

The No. 17 Duke Blue Devils were not going to allow themselves to drop two games in a row to Big Ten teams, as they clobbered the No. 25 Ohio State Buckeyes Wednesday night at home, 81-72. Before that, Duke basketball lost to No. 24 Purdue Boilermakers last Sunday, 75-56. A major key to the […]

The Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Duke Blue Devils. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Ohio State Duke prediction and pick. The Purdue Boilermakers crushed Duke on Sunday at the Phil Knight Legacy event. Duke was greatly outclassed by a Big Ten opponent, which provides the backdrop to this game, part […]

The Duke Blue Devils take on the Purdue Boilermakers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke Purdue prediction and pick. The Purdue Boilermakers lost Jaden Ivey to the NBA. When a team loses a top-five NBA draft pick — which is what Ivey was and is — that is generally supposed to […]

No. 8 Duke Blue Devils avoided an upset Thursday, escaping their meeting with unranked Oregon State Beavers with a 54-51 victory. Duke basketball had a hard time pulling away from the Beavers, which many expected the Blue Devils to do. One huge reason for that was the Blue Devils’ historically atrocious accuracy on offense. As […]

The Duke Blue Devils suffered their first loss of the 2022-23 college basketball season Tuesday night at the hands of the reigning national champions Kansas Jayhawks at the Champions Classic to the tune of a 69-64 score. Despite the loss, Duke must have gotten more respect for going toe to toe against the higher-ranked and […]

The Duke Blue Devils take on the Kansas Jayhawks. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke Kansas prediction and pick. The Kansas Jayhawks are the defending national champions. This game is the first true measure of their form and fitness, and how much fortitude they have. Last season’s team played its best […]

Kansas basketball has reportedly self-imposed a 4-game suspension for head coach Bill Self and assistant coach Kurtis Townsend, per Jeff Goodman and Stadium. This means that Kansas will be without Self against Duke in the Champions Classic showdown scheduled for November 15th. The suspension dates back to a 2017 incident. Goodman reports that Kansas basketball will […]

Orlando Magic rookie Paolo Banchero is a bona fide superstar. He already was one even before he played his first minute in the NBA, but the fact that he’s been so good so early on has only catapulted his fame to a whole new level. At this point, the 19-year-old has gotten used to life […]

The Duke Blue Devils fell short of winning the National Championship last season when they lost to archrivals North Carolina Tar Heels in the Final Four, and Duke basketball might again be losing again this time around on the recruitment front, particularly in their pursuit of Andrej Stojakovic, the son of former NBA All-Star and […]

Jayson Tatum helped the Boston Celtics climb within two wins of an NBA Championship this season. Ultimately, Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors ended that dream, winning in six. But the former Duke Blue Devils product still had a fantastic season, earning NBA First Team All-Pro honors. On Friday, Tatum must have been reminiscing […]

AJ Griffin is headed to the NBA. The sharpshooting wing from the Duke Blue Devils was picked No. 16 overall in the 2022 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. Griffin, who turns 19 in August, entered this season as the 29th player in his class, per the ESPN Top 100. He became a key player […]

After a great season with the Duke Blue Devils, Paolo Banchero is heading to the NBA. The Orlando Magic selected him with the No. 1 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. Banchero was one of the top players in his class coming into last season, ranking 4th on ESPN’s top 100. He proved that he […]

The scope of NCAA Basketball is changing drastically with the recent implication of the NIL. Similarly, the Duke Blue Devils are going through a lot of changes, starting with the retirement of longtime head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Tuesday morning, Duke announced that Coach K’s successor, Jon Scheyer, hired Rachel Baker as the organization’s general manager. […]

The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, rocked the country last week, bringing the need for gun safety to the forefront of everyone’s mind. Mike Krzyzewski, the former Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball team head coach, joined the chorus of athletes and coaches in calling out the lack of leadership in the United […]

New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson didn’t play a single game in the 2021-22 season because of his foot injury, but it was clear by the end of it that he was getting pretty close to full health again. Zion was seen on multiple occasions throwing down dazzling dunks in warmups and practice, leaving some […]

The rich just got richer. The North Carolina Tar Heels, who made it to the NCAA championship game this past season, just made recruiting waves on Wednesday. Five-star recruit GG Jackson, who was also considering the rival Duke Blue Devils, has announced his commitment to the Tar Heels, as reported by 247 Sports. #BREAKING: 5⭐️ […]

The 2022 NBA Draft is slowly approaching as the playoffs are officially underway. However, many scouts around the league are doing their due diligence on scouting the incoming rookie class. The Duke Blue Devils have some notable names eligible to enter the league and Wendell Moore has made his final decision. According to Jon Rothstein, […]

Paolo Banchero shined in his lone season with the Duke Blue Devils. He helped lead the team to the Final Four in Mike Krzyzewski’s last season while winning the ACC Rookie of the Year Award. The Seattle-born forward entered the 2021-22 college season as a top prospect in the 2022 NBA Draft and will leave […]

Longtime Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski signaled the official end of an era when he announced retirement plans following the 2021-22 season. Krzyzewski naturally impacted the lives of many student athletes and others involved in the program during his 42 seasons pacing the sidelines. On Thursday, the longtime Blue Devils coach took the […]

North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Hubert Davis couldn’t be any prouder of his team after they took down Mike Krzyzewski and his Duke Blue Devils in their Final Four rivalry game on Saturday. The Tar Heels got big performances from star guard Caleb Love and forward Armando Bacot to stave off Duke, 81-77. Love […]

It wasn’t supposed to end this way for Coach K and Duke. The Blue Devils were hoping to send off their long-time coach on a high note: by winning him another NCAA trophy. After all, Mike Krzyzewski announced earlier that this season will be his last one coaching for the team. The least the team […]

The North Carolina Tar Heels handed Mike Krzyzewski a disappointing end to his time with Duke, as UNC took down the Blue Devils in their Final Four showdown on Saturday. Of course it sparked plenty of reactions from the NBA world, with former Tar Heels like Vince Carter and Danny Green among the first ones […]

The UNC Tar Heels may have won a huge game against the rivals Duke to advance to the championship game, but it came with a few heart attacks. Most notably, star center Armando Bacot was helped off of the floor in the second half after spraining his ankle. Bacot eventually came back to the game, […]

Top NBA prospect Paolo Banchero and his Duke Blue Devils saw their season come crashing down on Saturday night following their heartbreaking defeat to North Carolina, 81-77. After the game, most of Duke’s players headed straight to the locker room without even congratulating their opponents. Here’s a clip of the sad scenes at the Caesars […]

Nothing like a little referee drama to spice up an instant classic rivalry matchup. The Final Four game between Duke and UNC was going down to the wire, with the Tar Heels leading by three points with less than a minute left. Suddenly, a foul was called on Duke’s Trevor Keels as he was going […]