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By Bermuda Bob Duke Sports Blog Contributor Earlier this month, the National Association of Basketball Coaches Board of Directors held their annual off-season meeting and, with only one dissenting vote, decided to suggest to the NCAA a change in the transfer rules. The change would essentially do aw…

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High school phenom Andrew Wiggins recently ended all the speculation about what college he would attend by selecting the Kansas Jayhawks. The recruitment for the No. 1 player in the country dragged on months longer than most top prospects, thus leading to additional media attention. Experts have bee…

Mason Plumlee is not going to be an easy player to replace for the Duke Blue Devils. How they will make up his production is beyond me, but it is not impossible. Duke will have some of the best guards next season in the ACC, thanks to Rasheed Suliamon and Quinn Cook coming back for [...]…

This is the first of what will become a weekly blog for me. I will always post when I release a new blog, on my twitter @dukebasketball7 The focus of this weeks blog is the 2013-14 Duke basketball starting five. I know a lot is still up in the air, most importantly Tarik Black’s decision [...]…

Fansided is looking for a new editor to run their Duke Blue Devils site, Ball Durham. Fansided is looking for someone that is very motivated to not only write a lot but to also recruit other writers around them. This editor will be responsible for the content on the site and the writers under them.

Vegas knows best, right? Um…maybe not. Vegas Insider has released the early odds to win the 2014 championship. Obviously, Kentucky is the odds on favorite at 5/1. They seem to get that right, but when you look at some of the odds in the ACC, I’m starting to wonder if Vegas is paying atte…

Really excited to announce that Tommy Eames, (@dukebasketball7) is joining DukeOfHoops.com.  He will be doing a weekly blog until the season starts, and then post more frequently once things get crazie! For easy access to his posts, please be sure to click on the Analysis tab in the menu. Tommy is…

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Last month, we gave away a $300 worth of Sports Memorabilia…This month, FanSided and Ball Durham have teamed up with Deals2Buy.com to give away a LG Electronics 42-Inch LED TV!!! This LG Electronics 42-Inch LED TV is provided by Deals2Buy, a leading website for deals, discounts and close-out i…

EPSN’s Joe Lunardi has out the first post-Andrew Wiggins decision Bracketology. The 1 seeds are obvious, Kentucky, Michigan State, Louisville and Arizona. Kansas sneaks into the two-seed, despite a lack of upperclassmen. I think Oklahoma is a little low at three, while Stanford and Iowa are pl…

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You can bet I was following the Andrew Wiggins announcement to Kansas today! :) ...with that said....Meanwhile on Franklin Street.... [...]…

What is it with Duke University surgeons…are they getting paid by the player? Josh Hairston becomes the fourth Blue Devil to go under the knife since the end of the 2011-12 season. He joins Ryan Kelly, Seth Curry and Marshall Plumlee. Hairston had surgery to repair ligament damage in his right…

Jabari Parker was the No. 1 overall prospect from within the class of 2013 prior to Andrew Wiggins‘ decision to reclassify from 2014. Despite four consecutive state titles at Simeon Career Academy in Chicago, Parker was bumped from the top spot in favor of Wiggins. The two have hit the court i…

And with one tweet, it was official. Andrew Wiggins will be attending Kansas — Grant Traylor (@GrantTraylor) May 14, 2013 Proving once again we all knew absolutely nothing, Andrew Wiggins decided to take his talents to Kansas. Word was starting to spread that the Jayhawks were coming on strong, bu…

Ryan Kelly may have been a very important player for the Duke Blue Devils in the 2012-13 college basketball season, but he finished the season on a disappointing note. First off, when Kelly was in the lineup, Duke only lost two games on the year. The only problem is that those losses may have been […

Go ahead and add Georgia Tech’s Brandon Reed to the list of transfers leaving the ACC. Counting mid-season departures, the list is up to 14. Obviously with 300+ players changing schools this year, I guess we can say the conference is getting off easy. Reed, who is expected to graduate and wil…

Players…they come and then they go. Starting lineups feature new stars. The roles players play are always in flux. Welcome to the world of college basketball. It’s time to look at the 2013-14 Duke Blue Devils and see who starts, who sits and who will barely sniff the court. Below you wil…

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Although the Duke Blue Devils will be losing their three starting seniors, who were the top three leading scorers on the team, Duke will not skip a beat. All the rave is about Jabari Parker joining the team and transfer Rodney Hood could play a big role, but let’s focus on Duke’s best fr…

It’s only May and I’m already psyched about next season’s BIG TEN/ACC Challenge, so it’s a good thing they finally released the schedules. Currently, the ACC leads the all-time series 10-3-1. The ACC dominated for a long while, winning the first ten of these babies, but then…

It’s very hard not to love Tyler Thornton. Not only does he bring a toughness to the Devils that is occasionally lacking on the court, but what he does off the court is much more impressive and important. This article by Sports Illustrated underscores Thorton’s reach and we all need to s…

With the 2012-13 season over, it’s time to look ahead at the most important position in basketball, the point guard spot. If you came looking for experienced floor generals, then I suggest looking elsewhere, because in the ACC, the point is a young man’s profession heading into 2013-14.

After taking a few minutes to turn the page on the 2012-13 basketball season that was, intrepid basketball fanatics Alex and Bart return from the Boo Williams invitational with a full report of which players were most impressive, who they'd most want to see in a Blue Devil uniform in the future, and…

Okay, I’ve taken care of the seniors, the juniors and the sophomores, now it’s time to tackle the new kids on the block. Back in the good old days before players bolted early for the NBA, when I talked about freshmen, I was talking about the future. However, the future is now because tod…

Duke recruit 6’3 Shooting Guard Jalen Coleman courtesy of PrepHoopsTV.

Some tidbits… Firstly, after investigating the Lance Thomas jewelry situation, “The NCAA has found no evidence of a rules violation in this situation based on the information available, and both the NCAA and Duke consider the matter closed.” A settlement was reached in the case between…

The expectations for the Duke 2013-2014 Blue Devils men’s basketball team are sky high, but their opportunity to meet those expectations could be limited. The Blue Devils return a solid nucleus and will surround them with an exciting recruiting class, but as often is the case in this day and a…

For most players, they start to “get it” between their sophomore and junior years. However, for the special ones, it takes just one year of college ball for “it” to click. The top-five sophomores in the ACC next year, they all will have the “it” I’m talking abou…

It is amazing how we could throw insurmountably high expectations on a player most of us have not seen play. Instead of actually watching some tape ourselves, we rely on second or sometimes even third-hand accounts of why some guys are awesome. That is not to say they are not “awesome”,…

Before athletes become brands they are a lot like regular folk. They too put on their pants one leg at a time, use multiple layers of toilet paper and have favorite teams for which they root. Duke Blue Devils commit, Grayson Allen, cheered for the team in which he is about to join. In fact, [...]…

After announcing he will attend Duke University to play basketball starting this fall, Jabari Parker has made the Blue Devils a team to look out for next season.  Parker made his decision four months ago, but he has now made it official as he signed his letter of intent yesterday. The No. 2 recruit…

Bart : The power forward is a tough position to parse. Duke has 3.5 of them in Jabari, Amile, Josh and Semi. Jabari is a classic stretch 4, while Amile and Josh are classic low post bangers. so, much like the SF position, the look and style of the team on the floor will drastically change when Jabar…

Duke and its coaching staff appear to be in a full-court press for former Memphis big man Tarik Black, but I’m not entirely sure why that is. I can see the appeal, Black who graduated from Memphis is 3 years is looking to transfer for his final year of eligibility and play right away. At 6-fo…

via ny2lasports.com C Elijah Thomas 6'9" 240 Strength : 17 Dexterity :17 Speed : 14 Intelligence : 17 Leadership 11 Special Ability : Hands : If any part of his hands touches the ball, it's his ball until he decides what else to do with it. This is a country strong yet agile big ( and I mean big…

With the off season finally here, I have had time to go back through probably over 1,000 photos I took or was a part of this past Duke basketball season and narrow it down to what I think were some of the best!  The Duke photos section of this website is finally updated!  No surprise but s…

  Duke Blue Devils Mason Plumlee should crack the top 10 of the 2013 NBA Draft. Although it is not that simple and this draft will have plenty of talent in it, Plumlee was one of the best players in the 2012-13 college basketball season and he deserves to be picked in the top 10. [...]…

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