They say the devil is in the details. But in Durham, the Blue Devils are in the details and numbers.
Five
With 4:37 left on the clock and 59-54 on the scoreboard, freshman center Kyle Filipowski’s third consecutive double-double effort gave the men’s basketball team another victory in the Champions Classic against Kansas on Tuesday. But the writing was on the wall for the Blue Devils, who could only react by five points to the Jayhawks’ 15 after Kansas scored on five consecutive possessions. . With his 3-pointer from Jeremy Roach and an alley-oop to Grady Dick, the score was 63-62 for him. The Jayhawks did not look back and maintained their lead in the final minutes, ending the game with a score of 69-64.
twenty four
At the NC .State Invite, it seems that Duke’s swimming and diving goals were not only to rewrite the record books, but also to destroy them completely. The program saw his past top 10 times broken 24 times in just three days of competition, and the invitational capped off with his NCAA B cut of 18. Junior Sarah Foley smashed her school record in the 200-yard breaststroke to take the lead, just after breaking her own program record in the 100-yard breaststroke by 0.23 seconds.
88
Even in the second half, after a tough battle with no goals scored by both teams, Women’s soccer beat Texas 1-0 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, scoring their only goal in the 88th minute. Alumni midfielder Mackenzie his plucked corner assisted by his kick, junior his defender Katie his Groff headed his shot into the net, making his team into the Sweet 16 for the third year in a row I hit a ticket for The Blue Devils made a total of 20 shots and scored 5 goals. Plack’s corner kick was his ninth of the game. He also defeated South Carolina 2-1 in the Sweet 16 to advance to the Elite Eight.
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If good things come in threes, twos stop quickly. After scoring a touchdown with just 47 seconds left on the clock, the Duke footballs were unable to complete the game-tying two-point conversion and the score was 28–26 in a loss to Pittsburgh. The defense, which established a pattern of winning turnover battles, was able to record two takeaways, interceptions by grad student Datron Young and redshirt senior Shaka Hayward, but neither converted into points. It was not possible.
40
Duke’s women’s basketball scored 40 points in the paint against Texas A&M on an opponent’s sharp shot that head coach of scoring strategy Carla Lawson called “it mattered on a night when the shot didn’t fall.” countered. In her 71-52 victory over the Aggies, only four of his 24 shots for the Blue Devils were from outside the paint. The Aggies, on the other hand, took the opposite approach. Duke scored just 18 points in the paint while she tried to close the gap with six of her 3-pointers to 1.
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Audrey Wang is a sophomore at Trinity and a college news editor for Volume 118 of The Chronicle.
