Duke is arguably the best team in the country … when it plays at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils have a net rating of plus-45.7 per 100 possessions at home, per CBB Analytics, and that was before a 25-point shellacking of Stanford on Sunday. For reference, that net rating places Duke in the 100th percentile.
Current BYU basketball assistant coach Chris Burgess has been on both sides of the state's best basketball rivalry; here's how he feels on the eve of the big game.
There will be plenty of movement in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll on Monday after a wild week of conference play across the country. Eighteen ranked teams took at least one loss, and two of them fell twice.
Duke men’s basketball's 12-game win streak has seen freshman phenom Cooper Flagg take massive strides on the offensive side of his game. In The Chronicle’s latest edition of Point-Counterpoint, our writers discuss how high they believe Flagg will fly in the NBA.
Midweek performances from high-profile college basketball teams ran the gamut from stunningly impressive to absolutely putrid as conference play ramped up during the first full week of the 2025 calendar year.
The Utah Jazz currently sit at 9-28, a record that would give them the fifth-best odds at obtaining Flagg with the first overall pick. It’s one of the reasons the Jazz were content to usher in a ...
Cooper Flagg could be the first freshman to win the Naismith Award since 2019 when fellow Duke player Zion Williamson won the award. The list of freshmen winners is small, with Kentucky’s Anthony Davis (2012) and Texas' Kevin Durant (2007) also winning the award.
The danger of knowing Mahoney is that you might end up unexpectedly enticed to run 13.1 miles with her at any moment. Mahoney, a Clinical Nurse for the ICU Float Pool at Duke University Hospital, is on a quest to complete 50 half marathons in all 50 of the United States before she turns 30. Her motivation is fairly simple.
Friday's night matchup between the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz started slowly for Zion Williamson. The two-time all-star picked up three first-quarter fo
That said, Cooper Flagg & Co.'s next opponent, Blue Devil alum Jeff Capel's Pitt Panthers (12-2, 3-0 ACC), now boasts the most votes among all unranked teams this week. So, the Panthers, riding a five-game winning streak, effectively stack up at No. 26 in the country.
Former Zag Domantas Sabonis gestures to fans during a ceremony to have his number honored before the first half of a college basketball game between Gonzaga and Santa Clara on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash. (Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review)
No. 7 Texas (17-2) beat Auburn 74-57. No. 8 Maryland (16-1) beat No. 24 Minnesota 99-92. No. 9 Ohio St. (17-0) beat Wisconsin 80-69. No. 10 TCU (19-1) beat UCF 90-81; beat No. 23 Utah 81-73.