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US U17 rolls past Lithuania 102-66
Despite tipoff coming 30 minutes after 12 noon, it was early lights out for Lithuania (1-1) as the USA Men’s U17 Team (2-0) ran over, around and through Lithuania Saturday and in the process collected a very impressive 102-66 victory in preliminary round play at the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship in Hamburg, Germany. It [...]
Irving helps lead USA to Gold
In a game that went down to the wire, the USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team (5-0) fought back to defeat Brazil (4-1) 81-78 and claim the FIBA Americas U18 Championship gold medal on Wednesday night at Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio, Texas. Earlier in the night Canada (3-2) defeated Argentina (2-3) 86-83 in [...]
Rivers leads USA past Canada
In a record-setting night, the USA U18 National Team (4-0) earned a berth in the gold medal game with a 122-89 semifinal victory over Canada (2-2) Tuesday night at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Men at Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio, Texas. “That’s the goal and that’s what we came here for,” said [...]
Featherston on Coach K, Team USA and recruiting
When you talk of the Duke beat in journalism, the first name that comes to mind is Al Featherston. BDN is happy to announce that Al is the newest member of our growing list of contributors. In his first effort, “Feather,” as he is known to his friends, goes into great detail about Coach K [...]
Coach K Audio from Media Call-in, Part 2
Here is the audio or part two of the media call for Coach K being named the 2012 Olympic Basketball coach. Simply hit play -
Duke Basketball’s Coach K will lead Team USA through the 2012 Olympics (Audio)
The Blue Devil Nation would like to congratulate Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski for being selected to lead Team USA through the 2012 Olympics. The following is Part I of Krzyzewski’s interview with the media. Simply hit play and turn the volume up. If you have a lap top, ear buds are suggested.