Duke Blue Devils Women's Basketball News

If there was rust, it didn't show. After a 13-day hiatus for exams, No. 8 Duke cruised to an 85-66 victory Monday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium against Gardner-Webb.

UConn Vs. Duke University of Connecticut Huskies guard Caroline Doty, left, and Duke Blue Devils center Elizabeth Williams battle for a rebound during the first half.

Kianna Holland has made the decision to transfer from Duke, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Chronicle.

Alex Murphy is leaving the Duke Blue Devils after getting minimal minutes the past two seasons.

Duke's Marshall Plumlee battles for a loose ball with Michigan's Caris LeVert during the Blue Devils' 79-69 win at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Dec. 3. When asked what was at the top of the Duke Blue Devils' basketball team's to-do improvement list, assistant coach Jeff Capel laughed.

Duke is 72 and coming off an impressive win over Michigan. On the other hand, Duke has lost marquee games to Arizona and Kansas.

Caitlin Roorda finished with 15 kills, 10 digs, seven aces and two blocks, leading Herkimer to a 3-2 win over Dolgeville in a Center State Conference volleyball match Friday.

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.

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