Monday Musings – Duke Basketball and Football tidbits

Welcome to another edition of Monday Musings Blue Devil Nation!  Duke Athletics had another full weekend slate and we’ll take a look back and ahead on the latest edition of Watzone’s Monday Musings. Enter Goliath! In the pre season Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski joked about during the annual ACC Media Day about how Duke became known […]

Stats Update: Duke runs over Virginia

I remain convinced a team must successfully run the ball to consistently compete to win. After rushing 45 times for 142 yards in the win at Navy, Duke followed up by rushing for 230 yards on 45 attempts with six rushing touchdowns in Saturday’s 55-48 victory over the Virginia Cavaliers. So far in 2010, through […]

Stats Update: Sean Renfree has record setting performance in win over Navy

Duke beat Navy 34-31 on the strength of a record setting performance by Sean Renfree and a strong first half by the entire offense; however, the defense played great and acknowledging true freshman linebacker Kelby Brown’s 12 tackles, along with Abraham Kromah’s 11 tackles, and Matt Daniel’s huge tackle on 4th down is appropriate. The […]

Stats Update: Red Zone Miscue, Big Plays Sink Blue Devils

With 4 minutes and 38 seconds left in the second quarter, Duke failed inside the red zone for the first time this season when on third and eight from the Maryland 17 yard line Sean Renfree threw an interception. The mistake ultimately proved fatal. If Renfree’s pass had been incomplete instead of picked off, Will […]