Duke University NCAA News

Also invited: Wake's Devin Thomas, former State guard Rodney Purvis, Tech's Robert Carter and Marcus Georges-Hunt and Duke targets Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow.

Top Triangle contenders: Duke – Curtis Beach , Austin Gamble , Cydney Ross , Erica Brand .

Andre Dawkins has mostly kept out of the public eye during his year off, but with his recent announcement that he will return to the Duke basketball team, he's beginning to open up and discuss his year off, his return, and what he's learned .

Brendan Fowler won more than 55 percent of his faceoffs and scooped up at least 34 ground balls in each of his first two seasons at Duke, but still was not making much of a dent in terms of playing time.

The New Orleans Pelicans have the potential to become one of the hottest, most popular teams in the NBA .

At 72, you can't really expect Larry Brown to embrace the technology revolution currently sweeping through basketball .

When he was at Maryland, Greivis Vasquez developed an interesting relationship with Cameron, sort of a love-hate thing.

The last outstanding piece of Duke's 2013-14 roster was settled Monday, when Memphis transfer Tarik Black chose to take his services to Kansas next year instead of Duke and Oregon.

Apparently Kyrie Irving has been around long enough to generate some sort of angst about his game .

We're not smart enough to foresee exactly how the digital side will develop, but most people who have paid attention for the last 10 years or so understood that video was moving to the Web.

The top five teams, one of whom will pick first, will be Orlando , Charlotte , Cleveland , Phoenix and New Orleans .

Looks like the Steve Alford program hasn't gone quite as well as UCLA A.D. Dan Guerrero had hoped: the LA Times ran an article Guerrero found so negative that he felt obliged to respond with a statement: "It is unfortunate that Chris Foster's Los Angeles Times article on UCLA men's basketball Coach Steve Alford focuses only on issues and opinions ... (more)

Oklahoma has never been an easy place to live. You can go down the list: the Trail of Tears, the land rush, the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the boom and bust cycle of the oil business and last but certainly not least, being right in the middle of Tornado Alley.

Duke lacrosse is back in the Final Four for the seventh straight time - that's an amazing accomplishment.

Duke target Theo Pinson is set to announce on Wednesday . He's down to Georgetown, North Carolina, Duke, Louisville and Indiana.

It's oddly exciting to think of the Charlotte Hornets returning . Let's face it - the Bobcats never really fully took hold here.

This is pretty cool: Blue Devils Tricia Liston and Alexis Jones have been named to the 2013 USA Basketball Women's U19 team.

Joe Giglio looks at the upcoming ACC - the new ACC race we should say - and sees Duke way ahead of everyone else.

Apparently after a good break Coach K is reconsidering and may go back to coach the U.S. team one more time .

He visited Georgetown and was to visit Duke Monday and Kansas on Tuesday . No word from him or anyone on whether Andrew Wiggins' commitment to KU is a good or bad thing from his perspective.