Duke Blue Devils Women's Basketball News

The Duke basketball team has been struggling in this young season, with games that have been subpar for any Blue Devils team.

Playing for a marquee program in a major conference under a Hall of Fame coach is usually enough to get an elite NBA prospect noticed, but that's somehow not the case for Duke's Rodney Hood.

The Duke Blue Devils have been ranked in the top 10 all season. In fact, they have been ranked in the top ten for 223 games now.

North Carolina, Duke and East Carolina were all selected to play in postseason bowl games on Sunday.

The Sooners hung tough with the Blue Devils for the first few minutes of Sunday's game, trailing only 18-17 after senior point guard Morgan Hook scored with 9:42 remaining in the first half.

Sunday evening, the Chick-fil-A Bowl announced its selection for its Dec. 31 matchup: Texas A&M vs. Duke.

Rasheed Sulaimon had an inconsistent freshman season at Duke; some games were great but in others looked like he got lost.

After playing just over six minutes per game as a redshirt freshman, Duke forward Alex Murphy saw the task of earning more minutes become even tougher in 2013-14.

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CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM - Ten minutes before tip-off of the Duke-Michigan men's basketball game-a herky-jerky contest the 10th-ranked Blue Devils won with relative ease, 79-69-the Wolverines, ranked #22 in the nation, gathered territorially at center court, as if to claim Cameron as their own.

Put all of those things together, and it's easy to see how big Arizona's 72-66 win over Duke in last Friday's NIT Season Tip-Off championship game was.

To get a better sense of what Michigan is facing tonight in Cameron Indoor, I talked to David Aldrige of The Duke Report about this year's Blue Devil team.

Duke University is one of the finest private research universities in the United States.

Basketball purists emphasize the team game, although it helps to have somebody on a squad who can flat-out get buckets.

Duke is going back to bigger lineups that include either Amile Jefferson or Josh Hairston to help improve a struggling defense.

For the second consecutive game, the Blue Devils controlled the paint and used a huge run late in the first half to get an easy win at the Paradise Jam.

The No. 4 Arizona Wildcats and No. 6 Duke Blue Devils, two of the country's top college basketball programs, will meet in the NIT Season Tip-Off final on Friday, and both teams are fortunate to be there.

Shots were falling and sixth-ranked Duke was cold as an early lead emerged. Then the two factors Alabama could least afford became reality.

Behind a stellar performance from senior libero Ali McCurdy, the 15th-ranked Duke volleyball team clinched a share of the 2013 ACC Championship Wednesday, defeating N.C. State 3-1 in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Losing to Kansas is certainly acceptable, especially so early in the season with a number of new faces still finding their footing, but East Carolina and Vermont were not supposed to have the Cameron Crazies on the edge of their seats in the waning moments.