AUSTIN, Texas – Senior Isabel Wakefield capped off a stellar performance in her first outdoor meet of the spring as she registered 5850 points to finish ...
The graduate student from Louisville, Ky., registered a personal best of 33:22.49 to finish fifth and shaved over four seconds off her No. 4 all-time Duke mark in the process. took the track for the first round of the 400m hurdles and booked her spot in Friday evening's final via a dazzling performance. Dillon shaved three seconds off his previous best and finished with a PR of 3:48.06. Up Next: Duke resumes competition at the Texas Relays Friday morning with 10 individuals set to compete across five events. Marsh finished in 2:16.98 for fourth and Wakefield took fifth after clocking 2:17.52. Hughes ran 2:23.04 to place 10th among the field. The Barnstaple, Devon, England native produced her third personal best of the two days on a throw of 41.07m (134-9 feet), improving her previous best by 50 centimeters. Marsh placed fourth behind her jump of 5.99m (19-8 feet) and Hughes tied for fifth via a measurement of 5.98m (19-7.50 feet). Marsh's third attempt was her best attempt as her hurl measured 36.71m (120-5 feet), while Hughes lobbed her javelin 32.73m (107-4 feet). On her second attempt, Wakefield flew out to 6.02m (19-9 feet) – good for third among the field. The Blue Devils also gear up for a busier day two of competition at the Raleigh Relays. Duke returns to the field at 9:30 a.m., for the men's high jump, while the team's track events commence with Sections 1-3 of the women's 5000m run at 10 a.m. capped the first day of competition at the meet for the Blue Devils with a solid outing in the women's 10,000m run. The trio kicked off the morning with the fifth event of the heptathlon in the high jump.
The Blue Devils defeated an excellent Red Raiders team thanks to one of Coach K's finer coaching efforts.
But this emotionally freighted journey through the latter stages of a legend’s career is no longer a burden, no longer in danger of being a disappointment. They just go, and the moment and the need take them to a place that a great player would love to be in, and that’s where he was. And Williams continued his sophomore flourish, providing a huge interior presence at both ends of the floor. “The resolve of Jeremy Roach was incredible,” Krzyzewski said. He followed a 15-point performance against the Tigers with another one against Texas Tech, making three big baskets in the final four minutes—none of them easy. The 6’10”, 250-pounder drove the ball with skill and daring and popped a pair of big threes. “Our guys really wanted that because it’s kind of like, cross the bridge to the brotherhood. What followed was a caucus of sorts, according to the head coach. Perhaps he presented the option to the players and they affirmed it. Going zone at a crisis point in a win-or-go-home game requires some stones, but also a willingness to bend to the situation and consider an alternative approach. That’s a preposterous number against what had been the best defensive team in the country. Duke’s “12 defense” is a 2–3 zone, something the avowed man-to-man adherent rarely uses—according to Synergy Stats, the Blue Devils have played zone for 4% of all their defensive possessions this season.
Duke Blue Devils beat Texas Tech Red Raiders Thursday in NCAA tournament Sweet 16 game. Duke basketball will face Arkansas Razorbacks Saturday in Elite ...
Roach gave Duke its first lead of the game, at 24-22, on a jumper in the lane with 7:47 to play. McCullar scored seven consecutive Texas Tech points as the Red Raiders built a 56-52 lead with 9:24 left. The Blue Devils unleashed a 9-1 run as Texas Tech went four minutes without a field goal. An 8-0 Duke run forced the first of five first-half ties. His free throw cut Duke’s halftime deficit to 33-29. “Paolo did a couple of things tonight that he has never done in his life, and he did it instinctually,” Krzyzewski said. With Duke struggling on offense, Texas Tech took a 33-29 halftime lead. Paolo Banchero scored 22 points to lead Duke, which hit its final eight shots from the field to shoot 70.4% (17 of 24) in the second half. “Those guys had momentum going into it the end of the game, and they took fully advantage of it, so just hats off to them. “The resolve of Jeremy Roach was incredible,” Krzyzewski said. “When you’re playing a team like Duke that has so much firepower on their offensive end and a lot of guys that can do a lot of great things on the floor one-on-one, it’s always going to be hard to stop,” said Texas Tech senior forward Bryson Williams, who led his team with 21 points. The Razorbacks (28-8) upset the tournament’s top seed Gonzaga, 74-68, earlier Thursday night.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski has spent more than four decades at Duke telling his players what to do, with championship-level results.
SAN FRANCISCO – No. 2-seeded Duke shot 71 percent in the second half and did not miss a field goal attempt over the final 8:53 of the game to defeat No.
The Blue Devils settled in, though, and answered with a 10-2 spurt of their own to knot it at 12. Duke finished the first half just 11-of-30 (.367) from the floor and trailed 33-29 at the break before shooting its highest field goal percentage in any half this season. Duke held a five-point lead with just under two minutes to go, but Texas Tech (27-10) did not go quietly.
Duke got all it could handle against Texas Tech in a game that featured 11 ties and 13 lead changes, but the Blue Devils won 78-73 to send Mike Krzyzewski ...
And they used it to secure the win and a trip to the Elite Eight on Saturday. Duke battled Michigan State in the second round to advance to the Sweet 16 and then needed a comeback in the second half of Thursday's game. With a minute to go, however, Banchero and his teammates slapped the floor in unison, a Duke tradition. So when you are doing that, you are not afraid of the moment as a team." His trust in them helped the program secure a trip to the Elite Eight and a matchup against Arkansas. Jeremy Roach (15 points, five assists) made clutch plays, including consecutive jumpers to extend the Blue Devils' lead in the final minutes, and kept the energy going when he verbally sparred with a few Texas Tech players. Texas Tech shot 33% from the field against the zone Thursday compared with 44% against man-to-man defense. Late in the second half, Duke freshman Paolo Banchero (22 points) countered Texas Tech guard Kevin McCullar's 3-pointer with a shot from beyond the arc that gave the Blue Devils a 69-68 lead with 2:57 to play. McCullar and Bryson Williams combined to score 38 points for the Red Raiders, but the defensive change made them think twice about every shot. Duke extended Krzyzewski's final season with key decisions and clutch plays down the stretch. "It was like a Catholic boys' choir," Krzyzewski said about his players' collective call for the second-half tweak. "It was a chorus.
Jeremy Roach and Paolo Banchero hit key shots down the stretch and the Blue Devils made their free throws in surviving a physical Red Raiders team.
“When you’re playing a team like Duke that has so much firepower on their offensive end and a lot of guys that can do a lot of great things on the floor one-on-one, it's always going to be hard to stop,’’ said forward Bryson Williams, who led the Red Raiders with 21 points. The defensive changes illustrated not only the dire nature of the moment but also Krzyzewski’s willingness to adjust and trust his players. The game pitted Duke’s usual collection of blue-chip prospects likely bound for the NBA after a brief college stop – tops among them Banchero and guard AJ Griffin – against an experienced Texas Tech roster featuring several transfers and five upperclassmen in the starting lineup. A 9-1 surge gave Duke its first lead of the second half, 49-47, when Paolo Banchero (game-high 22 points) hit a short baseline jumper at the 11:35 mark. Only one of Duke’s starters, junior forward Wendell Moore, has played more than two seasons of college basketball. The Blue Devils were fortunate the deficit wasn’t bigger, but it would surely grow if something didn’t change.