Austin Rivers

January 22, 2012 – Allen Moll For opposing teams, coming into Cameron Indoor Stadium for a road game against the Duke Blue Devils is as daunting a task as any in college basketball. After all, Duke was riding a 45 game home win streak, 2nd to only Kentucky’s 47 at Rupp Arena, heading into a [...]

November 30, 2011 – Allen Moll With the 2011-2012 NCAA basketball season well under way and many teams in the midst of finishing off their non-conference schedules and closing out early season tournaments, it’s time to take a look at how some of college basketball’s top freshmen phenoms have fared through their initial month on [...]

October 25, 2011 – Allen Moll Is there any question that the Duke University Basketball program is the most hated hoops squad in all of college basketball? Maybe it’s all of the winning, Dick Vitale’s love affair with Coach K, or the seemingly squeaky clean recruits that parade from Cameron Indoor to the NBA on [...]

April 5th, 2011 – Allen Moll For those of you that missed the 2011 McDonald’s All American Powerade Jamfest, which features the very best high school ballplayers competing in the Skills Competition, 3 Point Shoot-Out, and the annual Slam Dunk Contest, we are here to get you up to speed. Last year’s entertaining dunk contest was [...]

March 31, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors On many occasions we have highlighted one of the Top High School recruits in the nation, Austin Rivers, who has committed to attending Duke next season. Under the tuteledge of Coach K, he’s sure to develop into one of the top scorers in the college ranks and definitely [...]

December 15, 2010 – Allen Moll Apparently, Austin Rivers,  the #1 ranked high school player in the 2011 Class doesn’t have much respect for his recent competition as he was caught on camera making a bold prediction that he would score 40 points in a game against Cypress Creek HS in Florida. Not surprisingly, Austin [...]

December 8, 2010 – Allen Moll As if the Duke Blue Devils weren’t already the most potent team in the collegiate ranks with both the National Preseason POY Kyle Singler providing leadership and outstanding freshman phenom Kyrie Irving running the point, Duke may very well get even better from the perimeter next season once elite [...]

September 20, 2010 – Allen Moll The recruitment of Austin Rivers, currently the newly #1 rated prospect in the 2011 HS Recruiting Class by Rivals, has been a bit confusing. After initially giving a verbal commit to play for Billy Donovan at the University of Florida early in his HS career, Rivers has officially re-opened [...]