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Morning Five: 12.30.11 Edition

nvr1983 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:00:04 +0000

For a freshman who had minimal impact in his one semester on the court Khem Birch is making quite a bit of news. Birch, who decided to transfer from Pittsburgh at the end of the fall semester, has released the list of the schools that he is considering: Florida, UNLV, Gonzaga, Washington, Xavier, and New Mexico State. Birch also attempted to clear the air on his departure saying that he “didn’t think it was the best place” for him and that his departure was not due to disagreements with Jamie Dixon or what people around him were telling him to do. One school that [...]

September 15th Will Be “Mike Krzyzewski Day”

nvr1983 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:34:36 +0000

The past two years have been very good for Mike Krzyzewski. In addition to taking Duke back to the top of the college basketball world last April, he also led Team USA back to the top of the international basketball world (not that there was any doubt as long as we brought the “A team”) in Beijing. An inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001, he has won almost every title (four NCAA championships, 12 ACC championships in both the regular season and conference tournament, and an Olympic gold medal) and received almost every award [...]

Breaking Down ESPN’s Prestige Rankings

nvr1983 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:41:40 +0000

Ed. Note: Don’t like ESPN’s Prestige Rankings? Provide your comment on how to improve them here. We’re going to take this information and create a new set of rankings based on additional factors (and getting rid of the moronic NIT appearance = NCAA appearance (1 point) criterion).

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that ESPN was trying to fill the dead space between the NBA Finals and the Olympics with yet another list. Normally I wouldn’t have even bothered to look at it because ESPN’s lists have been getting progressively more ludicrous (hitting its peak–or nadir–when John Hollinger [...]

Tommy Amaker: Coach and Savior

rtmsf — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:38:09 +0000

In one of the more shocking developments of our nascent blog’s young life, we’ve noticed that a mid-April entry deriding Tommy Amaker‘s arrival at Harvard as some sort of savior is regularly in the blog’s Top 10 posts every month. Now, we don’t know who is behind this peculiar phenomenon, but we can posit a few guesses.

Are Michigan fans so disgusted with Amaker that they’re still spitefully searching for him only to piss on his virtual grave?

Are Harvard fans so enamored with him… wait a minute, there are Harvard fans?

Are Duke fans so unapologetically overzealous for Coach K to sprout a successful coaching tree [...]

Is Duke losing its cachet?

rtmsf — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:00:51 +0000

With the news Wednesday that Duke whiffed on PF Patrick Patterson (who opted for Kentucky over Duke and Florida), combined with yesterday’s news that Roy Williams has extended his contract with UNC through the 2014-15 season, we started to wonder if we’re seeing an unusual blip in Durham, or if last season and the presumed immediate future signal a larger problem there.

Be-Deviled?

The last time Duke had such a blip was in the mid-90s. In 1995, with Coach K’s back hurting and Pete Gaudet at the helm for two-thirds of the season, Duke went 13-18 (2-14) and [...]