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Profiles
by Bill
Glovin
Jason Williams. Carlos Boozer.
Mike Dunleavy. Chris Duhon. Dahntay Jones.
These 2001-02 Blue Devil names will rank among the
greats whose stories are recalled each season. Four
Duke players past—Jim Spanarkel ’79, Brian
Davis ’92, Bobby Hurley ’93, and Carmen
Wallace ’97—have been profiled by writer
Bill Glovin.
What comes after Cameron? Fame, sometimes.
Fortune can smile. But sometimes, as Glovin discovered,
the way is not as clear as the jog through Cameron from
the locker room to the fabled floor.
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The Numbers
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in a row. A fourth consecutive ACC Tournament championship
for the men's basketball team. Four NCAA Tournament games
in a row for the women, and a spot in the Final Four.
Three stellar freshmen in Daniel Ewing, Monique Currie,
and Wynter Whitley. The third consecutive regular-season ACC
championships for the women, along with a third straight tournament
title. Three new banners waiting to be hung in Cameron--an
ACC championship banner for both teams, a Final Four banner
for the women.
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The men's
basketball team has been ranked number one at the end
of the regular season for four years in a row, a feat
not matched by any other school.
The women's
basketball team became the first ACC school to go undefeated
in a season of conference and tournament play. Their
final record of 31 victories is a school record, as
is the 22-game winning streak.
For more
on the men's and women's teams, visit www.goduke.com
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Eight players on the women's team, after the December departure
of two sophomores who wanted more court time. Those who stayed--Alana
Beard, Monique Currie, Krista Gingrich, Vicki Krapohl, Michele
Matyasovsky, Sheana Mosch, Iciss Tillis, and Wynter Whitley--showed
strength, stamina, and determination as they won a record
twenty-two games in a row before losing the last game of their
season to Oklahoma, at the Final Four.
Some numbers seemed ever-changing. The number of Player
of the Year honors for Jason Williams kept rising--the Naismith,
AP, ESPN, and Chevrolet awards, the U.S. Basketball Writers
Association Oscar Robertson Trophy, a unanimous choice for
first-team All-American--new ones falling his way each day
at season's end.
Alana Beard's numbers piled up as well. A first-team AP
All-American, she became only the third Blue Devil to be named
a Kodak All-American (following Michele Van Gorp and Georgia
Schweitzer), finding her name on the first-team list in just
her second year of college. She was named Most Outstanding
Player in the East Region, and her fifteen points in the effort
against Oklahoma earned her the school's single-season scoring
record with 694 total points.
The season didn't add up to a final Number One. But it did
add up to records, success, experience, and high hopes. Krista
Gingrich is the only senior on the women's team, which returns
the rest of its stellar cast. Mike Dunleavy and Chris Duhon
will share captain's duties next season, as Dahntay Jones
and Daniel Ewing help set the pace for one of the most highly
touted incoming recruiting classes in basketball history.
Two. Two of the best basketball programs in the country.
--Kim Koster
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