I don't know if Burr is guilty of insider trading or not, nor do I care. However, the wearing of a mask with UNC on it is unpardonable. That alone ought to get him some time in jail. Sorry Richard, hope you wind up in a cell somewhere with a bunch of NCSt and Duke fans...Hey mods , if this is too political , just delete it.

Living in Illinois I have a lot of friends who root for the Illini, some of them are my best friends. Illinois plays a rotation of 8 guys now due to Johnson being out indefinitely with a broken wrist. The Illini are a young team with only having 2 upperclassmen in their rotation. The Illini are a live by the 3 and die by the 3 team this season with a handful of their players shooting between 33-35% on the season from 3 point land (Jakucionis, Tomislav Ivisic, Riley, Humrichous, and Davis). The Illini are Led by Projected Top 5 NBA Draft Pick Jakucionis, when he plays poor then the rest of the team plays poor. Boswell, a junior this season, who played for Arizona last season is the only player familiar with the Blue Devils.

I think this is how Duke will match up with Illinois on Saturday night,

Boswell - James
Jakucionis - Proctor
Riley - Knueppel
Humrichous - Flagg
Tomislav Ivisic - Maluach

Illinois' Reserves:

White - Guard
Gibbs-Lawhorn - Guard
Davis - Forward

I think we will witness Duke's Coaching Staff make it an Emphasis to shut down the Illini's 3 point shooting and they will force the Illini to try and score on them inside the paint. As long as Proctor and James do a great job in shutting down Jakucionis and Duke Succeeds in shutting down the Illini's 3 point shooting prowess I see Duke winning by at least 15 points. Illinois is not a team that makes comebacks, Duke HAS to defend the 3 point line very well on Saturday Night! If the Illini are cold early and Duke gets out to a fast start, this game will become a blow out and a long night for Illini fans as for some odd reason, Illinois tends to continue letting it fly from 3 even when they cannot shoot the ball into an ocean.

Great Opportunity to finish a tough non-conference game schedule in the regular season with a 3-2 record. A lot of Duke Fans should be present in NYC on Saturday Night.

Let's Go Duke!

📍 John Paul jones
📺 espn
⏰ 8:00

Duke heads north to play the feared defense of the Whooo cavaliers of Virginia.. jk they kinda suck this year, they are 13-12 and gotten blowout by every good team they’ve played. I expect the same

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Preview for this game isn't quite done yet.

But a separate story: On Maliq Brown's status moving forward.

Programming note (while I'm thinking of it): I'll have our NYC stringer, Michael Lewis, at this one.

Can someone stick this thread at the top.

This thread will be used to discuss former Dukies in the NBA.

Couldn't find the old thread for other games..

#13 Purdue beats #2 Bama 87-78. Rooting for Wisconsin to beat Zona.

New thread to discuss whatever movement/news/thoughts on Duke football during the early months of the preseason.

Starting with the schedule release.

Watched on HBO Max. Was about how the US select team beat the 92 dream team. Really good stuff. Duke guys doing their thing.

As ace flagg and Greensboro day beats Isaiah Dennis and Davidson day 45-39

GTHC GTH

Thread for Duke's baseball season -- and any other college baseball-related topics -- can start with Opening Day today.

Here's a recap of Duke's loss to Cincinnati in its opener.

And here's a general season preview for Duke.

Game preview can be found here.

Programming: I'll have remote coverage of this one. I kind of wish I was going ... but UVA has been terrible and since I don't stay overnight at these places, I don't want to be driving 3-plus hours back that late.

Predictions:

- Tyrese Proctor keeps his hot hand going, with 18 points or more.

- This is the one: Cooper Flagg gets a triple-double.

- Khaman Maluach catches another 4 lobs and has double-digit points.

- Isaac McKneely scores at least 18 points but takes more than 10 3-pointers.

Duke as the 3rd number 1 seed with Tennessee the highest #2 seed

How does Florida, the worst number 1 seed

Get rewarded with the worst 2 seed? While auburn gets the second best 2 seed either way the 1 overall? Make it make sense

Just a silly post game observations thread I am starting, with 10 bullet points. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. No Coors or hot dogs tonight. As the Joker says "and here we go."
1. Incarnate Word. Good Lord. Somewhere Jim Boeheim is saying "damn even I never played these guys."
2. Our offense seems to consist of 2 guys standing in each corner, unmoving. My junior high coach ran this play.
3. Mal must have heard my Casey Sanders comment, because he's taking over. Nice job Mal.
4. I like Sion but he might lead the nation in being burned on backdoor cuts.
5. Wow Sion must have read my #4 and gotten mad. 2 beautiful drives.
6. Nice to see Big Pat in there. Foster seems to love exceedingly difficult drives that sometimes goes in.
7. Evans heating up. He is key to us this year. He's Dynomite! (You have to be old to get that)
Ehhh I can't even come up with 10 points. It's Incarnate Word. We won, but looked kind of ho-hum. It's finals week coming off 2 big games. We don't always seem like a cohesive unit. 34% from 3 for the year needs to improve for us to make a deep run. Get Brown back ASAP. George Mason in a week. I commented before the ACC seems so boring this year. Where are the stars? I can hardly name any other ACC players other than UNC and our transfers. Other than Duke the ACC needs to up its recruiting, NIL, and portal transfer game. The SEC challenge painfully drove that point home; that football money is helping those schools. Now get off my lawn you crazy kids. Good night from the beautiful(but cold and dark at 4:30) Pacific Northwest.

Have learned a few things today on the basketball recruiting front:

-- J.P. Estrella is going to visit in the next month, dates just haven't been finalized. Duke wants to find a big in the 2023 class to pair with Sean Stewart and it feels like it'll either be Xavier Booker or Estrella.

-- The top priority in 2024 class is Tre Johnson.

-- Another "big one" in '24 class is Asa Newell. Obviously the Montverde pipeline to Duke has been fruitful and this would be the next snag from there.

📍 Cameron indoor
⏰ 4:00
📺 ABC

We welcome mediocre Stanford to Cameron to give us a back to back California homestead. Stanford is 16-9 with exactly 0 impressive wins on the season unless you could Blake’s beating UNC which was fun. We are currently a 19.5 point favorite

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I know some of us follow Kenpom so I think we need a running thread in our levels there as it’s been historically a good indicator of March success-

After our “bad D game” and all Saturday games we are sitting at

2 overall 7 on offense and 2 on defense

Auburn is still somehow 1 with 1 on offense and 17 on defense

Houston, Iowa state and Florida round out the top 5

The next closest ACC team is Pitt at 27 followed by Clemson at 29 and UNC at 30

Illinois will give us the opportunity for a nice win coming in at 12

Preview for tomorrow's game can be found here.

Programming: I'll be there with full coverage.

Predictions:

- Cooper Flagg scores at least 25 points.

- Duke makes less than eight 3-pointers.

- Maxime Raynaud has a double-double.

so two huge things today. austin parker our punter/field goal kicker dismissed for academic reasons and OL coach marcus johnson hired to miss state. ouch!!!!!!!!!

Hey Guys,
My wife bought me tickets for my bday for the Duke/Wake game on March 3rd. I've never been to Duke/Cameron before. Any recommendations on where to stay, eat, cool things to see, etc. Flying from Iowa the day of the game and leaving Durham the next morning, so it's a quick trip. Thanks!

I expected this thread up 30 seconds after the State game…😂

Seems like an interesting topic that other boards have. What are you currently watching? Recommendations? Recently I saw Wicked and really enjoyed it. I am also binging American Horror Story and am on season 5; Hotel. I also like British cop shows like Prime Suspect, Cracker, and the Level. Also Inspector Lewis is a good British cop show. Inspector Morse is the original. I liked Yellowstone and 1923 as well.

📍 cameron
📺 accn
⏰ 9:00

We welcome the 12-12 cal bears to Cameron for what should be a beat down. We are a 23.5 point favorite currently and I don’t particularly have any thoughts outside of destructiin

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Something new this season.

Because it's inevitable this comes up, I'll post and pin this thread to track how Duke's transfers are playing this season. It's going to be heavily focused on guys who were on Duke's roster last season because, well, do you really think of Jaemyn Brakefield and Henry Coleman III as former Duke players? (before you ask, yes, they're still playing college basketball)

So, here's the list of the transfers out of Duke from last season's roster and where they're playing this season, broken up by conference:

Jeremy Roach - Baylor
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Mark Mitchell - Missouri
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Christian Reeves - Clemson
Jaylen Blakes - Stanford
Jaden Schutt - Virginia Tech
TJ Power - Virginia
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Sean Stewart - Ohio State

Preview for this game is still a day away from being ready.

Getting this thread fired up now with a Mason Gillis update. Jon Scheyer said this morning that Gillis is "slowly but surely" getting better; Gillis is expected back at practice today and "we'll see how he's doing."

I'll have another story up later in the day about Duke's defensive breakdowns.