The Blue Devils’ drive stalled on the 1-yard line as Duke turned the ball over on downs after a failed completion. Instead of running the offense through the post with a player like Jahlil Okafor, the Blue Devils will have to rely on a perimeter oriented offense. Over under has seen the Pittsburgh Panthers go a 3-4-1 so far, while the Duke Blue Devils go 2-6.
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Marquis Wright had 20 points for Siena. In fact, the Saints haven’t been back to the tourney since they were bounced out in the first round in the 2009-10 season.
“That’s what it is, an experience”, Siena head coach Jimmy Patsos said during a teleconference Wednesday. He’ll have a chance to construct a successful team that only lost two seniors from last season. The Wounded Warrior Project seeks to “raise awareness and elist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members”, among other things. We talked to them about getting comfortable and contributing in other ways than just scoring.
What Duke ultimately does will likely boil down to how big Ingram is willing to play. Sometimes it’s as simple as that.
“It’s a one-game tournament”, Bustin said.
The fifth-ranked Blue Devils, however, seemed to pick things up pretty quickly in the opener.
Case in point: Matt Jones’s performance Saturday in Duke’s 113-75 win over Bryant.
In those three losses, the Blue Devils have allowed averages of 514 total yards and 42 points.
But for Duke to have success, especially early this season, the veteran corps of Allen, Jones, Amile Jefferson and Marshall Plumlee are going to have to be steady and occasionally shoulder most of the load. A group of us courageous souls formed the Kentucky Chapter of the Duke Alumni Club, but to avoid being subjected to the insolent taunts and ridicule, our meetings have generally taken place in private, someone’s home or the back rooms of seedy bars.
Grayson Allen had his elevator shoes on tonight in Durham. Oh, do you want more? Three of those guys were freshmen. One year after poor point guard play and wayward outside shooting doomed Memphis to an 18-14 season, the Tigers appear to be in jeopardy of missing the postseason for a second straight year. The battle of two of the youngest teams in college basketball should be an intriguing one, but with the game being so early in the season for both teams, I would expect an ugly, but glorified high school game in which the names of the new faces, as well as the prominence of the schools will drive viewership on television. He averaged 12.5 points per game on 43 percent shooting.
Duke is 9-1-1 against the spread in their last 11 road games vs. a team with a losing home record. What’s Going To Happen? .
Today’s Duke Blue Devils vs Pittsburgh Panthers college football game has a start time schedule of noon eastern time and airs on TV channel EPSNEWS. All in all, this is a very even game that could go right down to the last possession. Marksman guard Luke Kennard only made one 3-pointer, that coming in the second half, and struggled to get space to shoot.
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Pinkel made national headlines this past week for supporting his players’ decisions to boycott football activities.
