In the good news department, 6'2" guard Riley Nelson, rising sophomore from Maryland, is transferring in to Duke. She was regarded as a top-tier shooter in her high school days, but didn't really demonstrate it in limited action last season for Maryland. Her last game was on January 9th when she suf...

Softball falls from 3rd to 6th in the polls after the double-header loss on Saturday. Here's hoping they win out to keep a hosting spot.

Hello, Maliq!

devildeac wrote: ↑

April 6th, 2024, 10:09 pm

Friday softball:

cheaterettes 4
Duke 6


Saturday softball:

cheaterettes 0
Duke 8

Also worth mentioning the Sunday softball:

Cheaters: 1
Duke: 6

I'm not "scared", the rest of the season is all gravy to me. We've made it further than I expected, so I'm just enjoying the ride from here on. That being said, UCONN is beatable. Syracuse proved it, they could have won that game. It was only a 3 or 4 point game under two minutes. The problem for t...

lawgrad91 wrote: ↑

March 26th, 2024, 2:47 pm

One of our current inmates just got this from his mama: “Just got home from the doctor and he took a lot of fluid off my right liver.”

I mean, thank goodness the doc didn't take fluid off the wrong liver!

Duke will be facing UCONN on Saturday. They are 100% beatable, and have been five times this season. Bring 'em on. :happy-bouncyblue: I'm not optimistic, I'm afraid. But UConn only has two losses since mid-December, and those came to Notre Dame and South Carolina, neither of whom we could beat, eve...

CameronBornAndBred wrote: ↑

March 24th, 2024, 3:54 pm

Forty one smiles, one for each point that the Blown Out Bangharts lost by!

To do that would take forty-seven smiles, not a mere forty-one.

More than double, clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!!!!

It's not every day that you see a team post a 18-point turnaround when it matters most. Keep dancin', ladies!!!

The uNC ladies fall with a whimper to South Carolina, 88-41. Meanwhile, Duke is dancing on to Portland!!! I think the second part makes me happier, but it's close.

Duke survived a horrendous 2nd quarter (scored 5 points) to overcome Richmond 72-61 and advance to face Celeste Taylor and Ohio State on Sunday. My own feeling is that the horrendous quarter was the first one. We allowed 26 points in that one quarter. That's a pace to allow 104 points in a full gam...

Duke Hall of Famer and Miami head coach Katie Meier is calling it a career. Katie Meier, who led the Miami women's basketball team to 10 NCAA tournaments and guided the Hurricanes to the Elite Eight last season, announced her retirement from coaching Thursday. https://www.espn.com/womens-college-ba...

Absolutely brutal selection for Duke. We're off as a 7 to play 10 seed Richmond. Assuming we get past them, we then will likely be saying hi to Celeste Taylor and two seed Ohio State on their home court. IF we get out of the weekend, we also have #1 USC, #3 UCONN, #4 VT, and #6 Syracuse all in our ...

CameronBornAndBred wrote: ↑

March 17th, 2024, 7:28 pm

Vermont won't be an easy win, and Wiscy/JMU winner won't be either.

I won't be shocked if we are not Sweet Sixteen bound this year.

I'm fairly confident about that first one. Less about the second. But I still think our chances of making the Sweet Sixteen are better than 50:50.

What a sad morning...in a good way!

Duke played a nice game, but some bad shooting and bad decisions gave State the game today. Now we wait to find out where we'll head for our NCAA tourney journey. It is, unfortunately, a long wait for the women. For reasons that escape me, even though the women finish a week before the men, they an...

Not a loss yet, but I fully expect a "miraculous," referee-fueled comeback by the cheats as the first half as already demonstrated with a 10-0 FT difference in favor of the home team. I'm gonna have a heart attack and die of non-surprise. Dishonest bastards. Well, I almost hate to say it, but Ustby...

I enjoyed watching the first half with Flip sitting almost all of it out. Seeing everyone else step up and show how they could play together was truly fun. Ryan must have set a personal record for minutes played in a single half. I think at one point, Proctor was our only starter on the court. And ...

CameronBornAndBred wrote: ↑

March 5th, 2024, 1:56 pm

Both Jayla Wright and Jonathan Santucci were named the ACC's Pitcher of the Week. (Wright's second of the season)

Ooo, nice. I haven't been following softball as closely as I have in past years. Busy times.

Duke will play their first tourney game Thursday night at 5 against the winner of Pitt/GT. Given that one of those will be our opponent, we should move on to Friday, where we'll face the Wuffies again. We split with them, losing by a lot in Raleigh and winning by a lot in Durham. Any path we'd have...