Next up for Duke is Florida State in Tallahassee, and while Duke lost in Durham, most unfortunately, you should remember that Florida State won on a last-second shot after a very tight game. That could easily happen again, or not. Duke has grown up a bit since then.

You have to feel a bit bad for State: after the Duke loss, after feeling persecuted in the face of the Karl Hess, they shoot for the moon. They line up a reunion to honor the 1989 team, featuring Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani, whip the crowd to a fever pitch, and hang in there for the first half…all before succumbing, 86-74.

Here’s a nice piece about Coach P and her daughter, Maddie, who is evidently more than capable of charting her own course.

Anyone who’s ever sat close to the court at a college basketball game knows that officials hear obscenities hurled their way every night.

Little about NCAA eligibility rules is simple or straightforward, let alone readily transparent or unarguably fair to student-athletes

By AL FEATHERSTON Just to follow up on my story about N.C. State’s paranoia from yesterday’s DBR, I was looking at a breakdown of the ACC’s free throw stats. It sheds some interesting light on the mantra that “Duke gets all the calls.” I looked at in-conference stats to avoid the confusion caused by the [...]

On Monday, the ACC announced a reprimand to Karl Hess for his handling of the incident at N.C. State. Hess had this to say:

We’ll have a column up tomorrow by the Playcaller giving us his take on Karl Hess.

Wow, check out this article on UConn’s fall – it’s pretty surprising to see just how bad things have gotten.

Wow … it was a bad week to be an N.C. State fan.