Duke Blue Devils NCAA Basketball News

Setting The corner of 7th Avenue and 32nd Street will be hopping this evening when the Duke Blue Devils take on the University of Connecticut Huskies in the finals of the NIT Season Tip-Off. Plot For the first time in NCAA history, coaches with 800 or more victories do battle when Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Calhoun square off.

Duke's Jon Scheyer is named Most Outstanding Player in NIT Tip-Off tournament with 19 points and five assists in Blue Devil's 68-59 win over UConn.

Coach Mike Krzyewski and Duke will take on Connecticut at the Garden for the preseason NIT championship.

For about 30 minutes on Wednesday night, the ASU mena TMs basketball team gave No.

UConn -Duke. If you're a college basketball fan, that probably has a pretty nice ring to it.

Sylven Landesberg did his usual thing with 20 points Wednesday night, and once-seldom-used junior lefty Will Sherrill emerged for a career-high 18.

It couldna t get any more big-time than this. The worlda s most famous city, the worlda s most famous basketball arena and college basketballa s premier program as the opponent.

23 5:34 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/44898/ GREENSBORO, N.C. Nolan Smith of Duke and Derrick Favors of Georgia Tech captured the weekly honors in Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball, while North Carolina's Cetera DeGraffenreid and Virginia's Simone Egwu earned the women's honor.

Published: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. It's been smooth sailing for Duke this season.

Nothing tastes much sweeter than a UNC loss . For the Cameron Crazies, they got a dose of both this past weekend.

DURHAM, N.C. a ' Duke guard Nolan Smith was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday as announced by the conference office.

Radford , Va., Nov. 20 -- Radford University issued the following news release: Following back-to-back home wins to begin the 2009-10 men's basketball season, Radford plays the first of five straight games on the road on Saturday when the Highlanders travel to No.

The Blue Devils of Durham and the Tar Heels of Chapel Hill were named co-favorites to win the ACC during the preseason.

This is the continuation of a series profiling Duke's basketball players and what they hope to contribute to this year's team.

Charlotte never had a chance as Smith celebrated his season debut with a career-high 24 points in a 101-59 rout at the hands of the ninth-ranked Blue Devils in the second round of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Duke and North Carolina continued to be well above the curve in the Graduation Success Rate numbers released Wednesday by the NCAA .

Duke showed that it is a considerably more dangerous team with Nolan Smith on the floor.

This marks the first in a series of profiles on Duke's Basketball players and what they can hope to contribute to this yeara s team.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:48 p.m. Read more: College , NCAA Basketball CCU Sports Release DURHAM, N.C. a ' The Coastal Carolina University mena TMs basketball team started out strong in both halves, but the Chanticleers shot just 28.6 percent from the field and had an over-seven minute scoring drought in the first half in a 74-49 loss to #9/8 ...

The second round of the NIT Season Tip-Off pits the Charlotte 49ers against the ninth-ranked Duke Blue Devils, one of the host teams of this event.