And it has been fun watching it all!
Congratulations to all the teams!
Duke wins ACC softball title.
Duke women get share of ACC T&F title
Duke women's golf advances.
Duke men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse and women's tennis win their NCAAT matches.
Duke baseball gets badly needed series sweep over Virginia Tech to clinch spot in ACC Tournament.
Lots of work to be done. But a pretty darn good week for Blue Devil fans.
And it has been fun watching it all!
Congratulations to all the teams!
Last edited by heyman25; 05-17-2021 at 02:59 AM. Reason: addition about softball
Yes I was not informed at the time I posted this earlier today. Maybe next season since Duke Softball has arrived.
I wonder how Duke would rank if they were still awarding points in the Director's Cup. (was it called the Learfield Director's Cup?)
We were a frequent top ten athletic program per their rankings. I guess that award was a casualty of the pandemic.
The Women's Track and Field team capitalized on Covid-related eligibility rules.
For example, the key 4 X 400 Relay team, which won the final event in school record time was comprised of:
Iman Soule -- grad transfer from Columbia
Elena Brown-Solder -- grad transfer from Penn
Jenna Crean -- Duke sophomore
Brittany Aveni -- Duke Grad Student in her 5th year
Good question--although Duke spring successes this year are impressive so far, those would likely be offset by zero points in football (a source of at least a few points in some recent years) and zero points in either men's or women's basketball (a source of points for the men virtually every year and for the women most years, if not the last couple).
Actually was able to watch some of that softball championship win. Masterful pitching performance. It helped that the Tigers were swinging at literally everything in the late innings; they must have felt the pressure.
Duke's only run came on a few fluke dribblers and some opportunistic baserunning. It was enough though!
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Duke now has more ACC Titles this year than any other conference member,
https://goduke.com/news/2021/5/17/at...pionships.aspx
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
Now, 3 on 3 soccer, that would be exciting!!
I know what you're saying. But the difference is hockey teams can and do funnel in fresh bodies every 30-45 seconds or so and soccer teams can't do that, short of a big change in overtime rules.
And in regular season, hockey OT is limited to five minutes before going to shootouts.
Some of us remember that Duke-Indiana men's title game back in 1982 that went eight overtimes. Obviously, that was a once-in-a-lifetime event but you just can't run the risk. And in anything short of a title game you run the risk of having a totally frazzled team winning in the third or fourth overtime or whatever and then squaring off against a much fresher team as a reward.
So, as unsatisfying as PK's are, I'm just not sure I see a viable alternative.
They already play two 10 minute overtime periods before penalty kicks. You could eliminate the offsides rule for the overtimes to increase scoring chances but that would completely change the game and would be vehemently opposed.
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
So I have a solution which is a youth soccer drill. For the “Shoot out” there are 3 offensive players in the goalie box and 2 defenders and a goalie. You play the possession until the ball is out of the box, there is a save or a goal. The offense starts at the top of the box. If the ball goes out of bounds as if it were a corner or goal kick the possession also ends. Each team gets 3 possessions
Duke rowing picked up an at-large bid to the NCAA championship.