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2 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. The Duke Blue Devils entered March Madness as the top-ranked team in the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball coaches poll, but Saturday's Final Four loss against Houston prevented them from ending the season in that same spot. The Blue Devils dropped two spots to No. 3 in the postseason coaches poll released on Tuesday, dropping below the national championship-winning Florida Gators and the Cougars.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueridgenow.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke women's basketball team rattled off nine consecutive wins near the end of its season, taking home the ACC Tournament title and reaching the Elite Eight in the process, and the Blue Devils finished No. 7 in the USA TODAY Sports women's basketball coaches poll as a result.
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2 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
Freshman superstar Cooper Flagg and the Duke Blue Devils need just two more wins to win the school's sixth national championship, but the three best teams in the nation stand between them and glory. Each of the four No. 1 seeds reached the Final Four, the first time that's happened since 2008, and it's lined up a murderer's row of national semifinal showdowns.
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3 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team needs just two more victories to hang the sixth national championship banner in program history, but freshman superstar Cooper Flagg and his teammates will have their hands full against the Houston Cougars.
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3 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
The Houston Cougars beat the Tennessee Volunteers 69-50 to capture the Midwest region of the men's NCAA Tournament on Sunday, setting up a Final Four battle against Cooper Flagg and the Blue Devils. The Cougars dominated their SEC counterparts from the opening whistle, allowing just 15 points in the first half to open up a 19-point advantage.
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3 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke women's basketball team gave South Carolina all it could handle during the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, but the defending national champions prevailed 54-50 to keep the Blue Devils inches short of a Final Four appearance. The Gamecocks have won three of the last eight national championships, including two of the last three, and they bullied the Texas Longhorns in the SEC Tournament Championship Game earlier this month.
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3 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer has already accomplished so much in his first three seasons at the helm. He's won an ACC regular-season conference title, a pair of ACC Tournament titles, and reached the Elite Eight twice. By the time the NBA draft rolls around, he'll almost certainly have produced his first No. 1 overall pick in freshman superstar Cooper Flagg, and he could rattle off two more top-10 selections with Kon Knueppel and Khaman Maluach. But he's never made the Final Four.
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3 weeks ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
The Duke Blue Devils entered the 2025 NCAA Tournament as heavy favorites for the East region, and through three rounds of March Madness, they've given no one a reason to doubt their status as national championship favorites. Duke beat the fourth-seeded Arizona Wildcats 100-93 during the Sweet 16 on Thursday night, setting up an Elite Eight showdown with the second-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide for a spot in San Antonio.
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1 month ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils can reach the Sweet 16 of the men's NCAA Tournament for a second straight season on Sunday, but they need to beat the Baylor Bears for a chance to get there. After the Bears ended the season in the Big 12 Conference Tournament quarterfinals, their 10th loss in their last 18 games, many fans presumably expected the eighth-seeded Mississippi State Bulldogs to await the Blue Devils instead.
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1 month ago | 
swtimes.com | Ryan Haley
With the first game of the men's NCAA Tournament tipping off on Thursday afternoon, everyone's brackets are officially finalized, and the nation is riding with the Duke Blue Devils more than any other team. With the 2025 ESPN Men's Tournament Challenge officially locked, 25.0% of fans picked Cooper Flagg and the Blue Devils to win the program's first national championship since 2015. Only one other team, the Florida Gators, drew more than 11% of the vote.
