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1 week ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
Duke basketball sits third in 247Sports recruiting rankings after final prospect board247Sports released its final player rankings for the 2025 men's basketball recruiting class on Wednesday, and with the prospect placements finalized, the Duke Blue Devils officially have the third-best recruiting class in the country. Head coach Jon Scheyer only has three signees in the incoming freshman class (as of now), but all three future Blue Devils finished within the top 25 of the final rankings.
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1 week ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
ACC moving back to 18-game men's basketball conference schedule, per reportAccording to CBS Sports senior writer Matt Norlander, the 20-game conference schedule era is already over in the ACC. Norlander reported on Wednesday that the conference athletic directors elected to return to an 18-game men's basketball conference schedule, a decision that the longtime college basketball insider said partially stemmed from the fact that only four league members made the March Madness bracket in 2024-25.
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1 week ago | 
dukewire.usatoday.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball program picked up a second transfer-portal commitment on Wednesday morning with former Rice center Ifeanyi Ufochukwu, according to multiple reports. 247Sports' Matt Zenitz and Chris Hummer shared the news first. Ufochukwu redshirted last season, but he played 25 games across his first two campaigns with the Owls.
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1 week ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke Blue Devils women's lacrosse team won 12 of its 17 games during the 2025 regular season, earning them a place in the NCAA Tournament bracket for the 22nd time under head coach Kerstin Kimel. The Blue Devils will face the James Madison Dukes in the first round on Friday night, hoping for the first of five victories that separate them from a national title.
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1 week ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
Duke baseball appears to be rounding into form at the perfect time. With two weeks left in the 2025 regular season, the Blue Devils have won eight of their last nine games on the strength of their bats.
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1 week ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
Manny Diaz won nine games in his first season with the Duke Blue Devils, taking the College Football Playoff-bound SMU Mustangs to overtime and building a double-digit lead over Heisman Trophy finalist Cam Ward and the Miami Hurricanes, and yet he's consistently ignored among the best at his position in the sport.
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1 week ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
Few college football programs exceeded expectations in 2024 quite like the Duke Blue Devils. Head coach Manny Diaz won nine games in his first year with the program, erasing a 20-point deficit against the North Carolina Tar Heels and sweeping the program's three in-state rivals for the first time in more than a decade, and he kept the momentum rolling by securing a commitment from Tulane quarterback Darian Mensah out of the transfer portal.
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1 week ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
Duke Blue Devils women's golf star Andie Smith put together a stellar junior campaign in 2024-25, winning the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational among three top 10s in eight tournaments, and she was named to the Women's Golf All-ACC Team on Saturday as a result. Smith finished in a tie for 23rd and a tie for 18th in her first two events of the year, but she rattled off rounds of 68, 66, and 69 for a 7-under 203 in Chapel Hill to win by a staggering five shots.
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1 week ago | 
dukewire.usatoday.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball program will dominate the headlines for the 2025 NBA draft, and the list of combine invites only further emphasizes how many professional teams kept an eye on Durham this past season. The NBA released a list of 75 prospects invited to this month's showcase out in Chicago, including six Blue Devils and one incoming transfer who already committed to Duke.
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1 week ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
Manny Diaz exceeded the most optimistic of expectations in his first year with the Duke Blue Devils. The new football coach on campus won nine games, including a 20-point comeback against the North Carolina Tar Heels, the first victory over the Florida State Seminoles in program history, and a walk-off touchdown on the final play of regulation against Wake Forest.
