Area football fans watching Saturday’s NCAA Division II national championship game between Winston-Salem State and Valdosta State (1 p.m., ESPN2) will be familiar with many faces on the field.
Unlike the rest of her Duke teammates, Haley Peters wasn’t playing her first basketball game at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Seth Curry scored 23 points, big men Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly had double-doubles and No. 2 Duke beat Temple 90-67 in a matchup of unbeatens on Saturday at the Izod Center.
The words weren’t spoken when Mason Plumlee made his decision. They didn’t have to be.
Sophomore Elizabeth Williams had a career-high 25 points, along with 11 rebounds and six blocks, as No. 4 Duke defeated Georgia Tech 85-52 in both teams’ ACC opener at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke will complete a remarkable football season Dec. 27 at Bank of America Stadium. The work that landed the Blue Devils in the Belk Bowl, the school’s first postseason bowl game since 1994, began back in the Triangle earlier this year.
An athletics career that has taken him from coast-to-coast, with jobs from Maine and Tulane to Arizona State and Notre Dame, finally has landed Kevin White in a place to call home.
“That was one of the more attractive things with the Belk Bowl was a quality opponent like Cincinnati,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s something you have got to do. You have got to beat people like that. These are steps we are taking. It’s a big challenge.”
No. 4 Duke improved to 6-0 with a 77-63 win over visiting No. 10 California at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday.
The Blue Devils simply overpowered the Golden Bears early on and had four players score 11 points or more while shooting 47 percent from the field.
A series of games against highly ranked foes tested Duke early this men’s basketball season.
Longtime friends Chelsea Gray and Afure Jemerigbe meet on the basketball court today, which is fitting.
The job of building a quality NCAA Tournament résumé normally takes an entire season. This year’s Duke team has accomplished it in three weeks.
On Wednesday night, Rasheed Sulaimon experienced why he came to Duke for his college basketball career. After a scoreless first half, Sulaimon made 7 of 10 second-half shots, scoring 17 points to key Duke’s 73-68 come-from-behind win that kept the Blue Devils (7-0) unbeaten.
Sophomore Caitlin Ball wasn’t planning on playing soccer when she enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Freshman Hanna Gardner was recruited to UNC, but the coaching staff thought she was still a year or two away from playing.