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It’s a Shame, but Jerry Sloan Had to Go

February 11, 2011   Terence Moore   No comments

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Players get sick of your voice. They really do. So the surprising thing isn’t that Jerry Sloan quit as the Utah Jazz coach with two months left in the season, but that he lasted this long.

Twenty-three years?

With the same team?

And by using an approach — on and off the court — that hasn’t changed since he first grabbed a whistle?

That’s not happening anymore, not since the attention span of modern athletes resembles that of young people throughout the rest of society, as in fleeting. As in, what was it like near the end of Bobby Cox’s nearly three-decade run as a major league manager, including his 25th and final year with the Atlanta Braves last season?

 

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Mike Krzyzewski’s Eldest Daughter Recovering From Mild Stroke

February 01, 2011   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

DURHAM, N.C.(AP) — The oldest daughter of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a mild stroke several weeks ago.

The school said in a statement Monday night that Debbie Krzyzewski Savarino is back at work as the assistant director of Duke’s Legacy Fund and director of external relations for the Blue Devils’ basketball office.

According to the statement, Savarino is recovering from a vertebral artery dissection that resulted in a mild stroke. School spokesman Jon Jackson says Savarino’s recovery is progressing “extremely well.”

 

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NCAA Basketball Power Rankings: Ohio State No. 1 A.D. (After Duke)

January 13, 2011   Matt Snyder   No comments

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For the first time of the 2010-11 college basketball season, the Duke Blue Devils are not the consensus best team in the nation. They fell Wednesday night at Florida State, 66-61, and will have to give up the perch they’ve had all season — the No. 1 spot in nearly every poll out there. It goes without saying that shift takes place atop FanHouse’s power rankings, as the Blue Devils tumble to No. 4.

Ohio State slides into the top spot, but it wasn’t unanimous. Two of our panelists voted for the Buckeyes to be No. 1, while two liked Kansas. A single rating point separates the top slot from second here. With conference play kicking into high gear, we’re finally about to see some shuffling in a top five that had been stagnant for quite a bit.

Ballots were tallied from college basketball editor Ray Holloman, editor Matt Snyder, national college basketball writer Terrance Harris and blogger Evan Hilbert. Points, listed in parentheses, were given in reverse order of rankings (16 points for a first place vote, 15 for second, etc.).

 

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Florida State Drops No. 1 Duke Again

January 12, 2011   Jim Henry   No comments

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Nolan Smith leaned forward and exhaled. It has been 10 months since Duke‘s locker room had been this quiet, this somber. Players undressed in silence, while Florida State‘s celebrating fans remained at center court in a repeat of history against the Blue Devils.

The Seminoles pulled off their latest upset of No. 1 Duke, snapping the Blue Devils’ 25-game winning streak with a 66-61 victory here Wednesday night before a sold-out crowd of 12,100 and a national television audience.

It was the third time since 2002 that the Seminoles beat a top-ranked Duke team at home. The Blue Devils (15-1, 2-1), who hadn’t lost since a 79-72 setback on March 3, 2010, at Maryland, didn’t have to look very far for an explanation. They were stymied by the Seminoles’ rangy and physical defense that made life miserable nearly every possession.

Duke missed its first 10 3-point attempts and shot 31.1 percent overall, ending their dreams of a perfect season.

 

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Florida State Hopes History Repeats a Third Time Against Defending Champ Duke

January 12, 2011   Jim Henry   No comments

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — At least Florida State has home history on its side against top-ranked Duke.

The Seminoles must recapture that past magic — in addition to finding an offense — if they want to beat the undefeated and defending national champion Blue Devils Wednesday night and steady their footing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Slumping FSU has suffered back-to-back road losses to Auburn and Virginia Tech as it returns home for the first time in a month.

“In the past 10 or 15 years they’ve been as consistent as anybody in the league,” FSU coach Leonard Hamilton said of the Blue Devils.

 

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Next Play: Mike Krzyzewski Continues Quiet Climb Up Wins List

December 29, 2010   Ray Holloman   No comments

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — After 35 years and 880 wins, Mike Krzyzewski tinkered with the buttons on the front of his suit jacket, then clapped and waved politely at the throng of Duke fans that remained at the Greensboro Coliseum long after the outcome of the Blue Devils’ 108-62 win had been decided, a sort of reserved celebration that might seem at home in the clubhouse at Augusta or before the Royal Box at Wimbledon.

The victory put Krzyzewski ahead of former North Carolina coach Dean Smith, a man with whom his professional rivalry was so well known that images of Smith dotted the Coliseum, some 13 years after the North Carolina coach retired.

Yet, you see more of a reaction when a defensive lineman stops a play for a 2-yard gain.

Heck, you might see more of a reaction filling in a crossword clue.

On the night of a coaching lifetime, Krzyzewski’s celebration was simple, reserved and authentic.

Then it was on to the next game.

Next play.

Just as the coach would’ve wanted it.

“I don’t want to make it sound less than what it is, but number of wins, you have to be healthy, you have to have really good players, you have to have commitment from your school,” Krzyzewski said. “So, I don’t know if that’s as much an achievement as much as the result of having all those things. And so I’m not going to look at this as an achievement. When you win a championship … those are achievements. The number of wins, you have to win a certain number of games — especially the last one — to get an achievement.”

 

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Mike Krzyzewski Once Again Measured Against Dean, and Vice Versa

December 29, 2010   David Steele   No comments

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Dean Smith was all over the Greensboro Coliseum Wednesday night.

Yes, in memory, legacy and history, on the night that Mike Krzyzewski supplanted him on the all-time college basketball coaching victory list, in the very building where Smith’s North Carolina teams fought to maintain the upper hand over Krzyzewski’s Duke squads in a rivalry that takes a back seat to no one. Statistically, with the Blue Devils’ 108-62 rout of UNC-Greensboro, Krzyzewski did in fact take the upper hand.

 

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FanHouse Roundtable: College Basketball Pre-Conference Awards

December 23, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Most college basketball teams are between 1/3 and 1/2 of the season being completed and we’re a just over a week until everyone dives fully into conference play.

What better time, with the Christmas holiday looming and so many readers sitting at home looking for some reading material, to assess where we are. Everyone has thoughts on the best team, player and freshman in addition to the surprises and disappointments we’ve seen from college basketball in the latter few months of 2010. Three of those people — FanHouse college basketball blogger Evan Hilbert and editors Ray Holloman and Matt Snyder — submitted a selection in eight categories and provided some storylines to watch for the remainder of the season.

 

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Coach K Ties Dean Smith as No. 1 Duke Cruises to Win Over Elon

December 20, 2010   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Singler scored 24 points to help No. 1 Duke beat Elon 98-72 on Monday night, moving coach Mike Krzyzewski into a tie for second place on the all-time wins list.

Nolan Smith added 22 points as the Blue Devils (11-0) gave their Hall of Fame coach his 879th win in 36 seasons at Duke and Army. Krzyzewski is now tied with Dean Smith, who spent 36 seasons at rival North Carolina before retiring in 1997 as the winningest coach Division I history.

Krzyzewski can pass Smith by beating North Carolina-Greensboro at the Greensboro Coliseum on Dec. 29. That would leave only Bobby Knight ahead of him, as Knight passed Smith with 902 wins before retiring almost three years ago.

Andre Dawkins scored 17 off the bench for Duke, which took control with a 14-0 first-half run but couldn’t put away the Phoenix (4-7) until the final 6 minutes.

Coming off a nine-day exam break, Duke looked flat and a step slow against a program that had never played the nation’s top-ranked team since moving to Division I in the 1999-2000 season. In fact, outside of that 14-0 spurt that gave the Blue Devils a 21-8 lead on Singler’s 3-pointer with 12 1/2 minutes before halftime, Elon – currently 0-3 in the Southern Conference – played Duke even over the next 26 minutes and trailed just 75-62 on a pair of free throws from Chris Long with 6:34 to play.

The Blue Devils finally closed it out with an 8-0 spurt led by Smith, who sat for about 9 minutes of the second half after picking up his fourth foul. First, he rebounded a missed jumper from Ryley Beaumont and led the break before finding Dawkins for a 3 from the right wing while drawing a foul from Long.

Dawkins made the free throw, then Seth Curry added a pair of free throws before Smith capped the spurt with a jumper that made it 83-62 with 5:32 left. Elon got no closer than 17 points the rest of the night, with Duke getting three straight 3s from Dawkins, Smith and Ryan Kelly to make the score look a lot more lopsided than the game actually was.

Duke has now won 21 straight games dating back to last season’s run to the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA tournament titles, and 29 of 30 overall.

Jack Isenbarger scored 19 points to lead Elon.

 

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Backcourt Duel Headlines Top College Hoops Games This Week

December 20, 2010   Evan Hilbert   No comments

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Marcus Denmon Demetri McCameyA bit of a short week looms as we head into the holidays, but there are still a batch of solid games featuring teams in search of redemption. It’s all about how some teams bounce back this week, because there is not much time before conference play starts.

The eight best:

8. Elon (4-6) at No. 1 Duke (10-0), Monday, 7 p.m.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is again poised to reach yet another coaching milestone in college basketball as he will (probably) get his 879th career win, which would pull him into a tie with longtime UNC coach Dean Smith. Elon, as you might expect, hasn’t really been very impressive this year, but they do have a 7-footer! He barely plays, but he’s seven feet tall!

If Duke doesn’t lose this season, Coach K will tie Bob Knight’s record after the ACC Tournament Championship. Just sayin’.

7. Drexel (8-1) at No. 5 Syracuse (11-0), Wednesday, 7 p.m.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, and, no, there are no milestones to be reached in this game. This one may actually be close. Syracuse has played most everyone close — except for Michigan State — and the Orange are coming off a narrow win over Iona Saturday. Plus Drexel is no slouch, and the Dragons proved that last week when they handed Louisville its first loss of the season. Plus, Syracuse will be playing its third game in five days, something that could have an effect on its play Wednesday.

6. Washington State (8-1) vs. Mississippi State (7-3) in Honolulu, Wednesday, 3 p.m., ESPNU

Mississippi State, now featuring big man Renardo Sidney, could really use a positive outing after getting pasted by Virginia Tech over the weekend. Sidney, who made his career debut against the Hokies and scored 12 points, was a McDonald’s All-American before being suspended for the entirety of last season and nine games this year for receiving improper benefits. Chemistry, apparently, is something of a problem for the Bulldogs.

The Cougars avoided an embarrassing loss themselves, narrowly beating Santa Clara Sunday night.

 

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