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Duke Basketball Recruiting Update – the weekend visitors
Durham, N.C. – This weekend marked the first time Kyrie Irving had been to a game at Duke this season and what he saw made him want to stay. Irving will be here soon enough, July to be exact as will his future teammate Josh Hairston who also attended the Blue Devils blowout win over [...]
Duke Basketball Recruiting Update – Irving, prospects come to Cameron (Updated)
The list of visitors is incomplete for Saturday’s game but here is who we feel you can look for – Shabazz Muhammad, Sorry, but you must become a premium subscriber to view the rest of this post.
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BDN Premium – Amile Jefferson talks recruiting
One of the top players in the class of 2012 is Amile Jefferson of Philadelphia, PA, Friends Central High School. Jefferson stands 6-6 and weighs in around 190 pounds. Jefferson’s versatility and upside has college coaches jockeying for position as he starts to take a serious look at the process. In a our conversation, Jefferson [...]
High School Hoops 2010 Edition No. 9
Here is another edition of High School Hoops for Blue Devil Nation premium members. This edition takes a look at Duke’s three 2010 committed players: Kyrie Irving, Josh Hairston, and Tyler Thornton; as well as the other players Duke is looking at in the Class of 2010 and beyond. Sorry, but you must become [...]
One on One with prospect Desmond Hubert
BDN Premuim – Desmond Hubert is a 6’9” young man from New Egypt, New Jersey. In early November, he visited the Duke campus and took in an exhibition game as part of a series of unofficial visits. In front of coaches from UConn, Pittsburgh, and Villanova, the thin, junior big man played in the closing [...]
One on One with Future Blue Devil Kyrie Irving
BDN Premium -Since formally making the announcement that he was going to commit to Duke University on ESPNU, the nearly 6’3” point guard from West Orange, New Jersey has acted in a production of “High School Musical,” seen his aspiration of a mythical national championship vanish in a last second missed free throw against a [...]
BDN Premium Duke Basketball Recruiting Update
As our members know, as the college basketball season goes into its final weeks recruiting talk heats up, for AAU ball is less than two months away. It’s been a bit busy around here where we have been covering basketball and spring football, which caught everyone off guard with an early start.
I had originally planned [...]
Veteran talent analyst Tom Konchalski talks Duke Basketball Recruits
At 6’6,” Tom Konchalski would stand out in any crowd, but, even among the pituitary cases dotting the hardwood courts, he is revered and respected for his candor, integrity, kindness, and eye for talent. His vise-like handshake and words of encouragement are a rite of passage for nearly every major U.S.-born high school basketball player. [...]
BDN talks Duke Basketball Recruiting with Prep Stars’ Rob Harrington
I sat down with Prep Stars’ Rob Harrington to get his thoughts on Duke Basketball Recruiting. In our conversation, Rob breaks down what he likes about the kids Duke already has locked in with verbal commitments and covers prospects as well. We talk about Kyrie Irving to Quincy Miller and Austin Rivers and then backtrack [...]
BDN chats with future Duke Blue Devil Kyrie Irving
Springfield, Mass – The Blue Devil Nation’s Andrew Slater was on hand to cover the HoopHall Classic in Springfield, Massachusetts this past Monday where Kyrie Irving and company were participating. Irving, of course, is Duke’s point guard of the future and Blue Devil fans anxiously await his arrival in late July when he [...]
Future Duke Footballer Nick Sink plays a good game of basketball
Coach David Cutcliffe and staff are looking forward to working with Nick Sink who has been recruited to play tight end for the Blue Devils. But before he concentrates on football, Sink will finish out his senior basketball season with Forsyth Country Day. BDN caught up to Nick during the Glaxo Invitational where he scored [...]
BDN’s Duke Basketball Recruiting Update
With all the questions surrounding where Duke will seriously look to fill another spot in the class of 2010, I decided to break it down as it stands today. First off Roscoe Smith is a Sorry, but you must become a premium subscriber to view the rest of this post.
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