March 3, 2010

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 107

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SACS renews University’s accreditation

Al Gore will lecture at Nich school

A hymn for Haiti

by Christine Chen

from Staff Reports

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The University has been granted reaccreditation, officials announced Tuesday.

The process has been a year in the making, as the University submitted its Quality Enhancement Plan last January for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

The QEP states how the University can improve, and Duke’s document emphasized the University’s commitment to internationalization efforts despite the effects of the recession.

“Accreditation is an essential aspect for any institution of high education,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Accreditation allows the University to award baccalaureate, masters, doctorate and professional degrees to its students. It also gives Duke the ability to offer services such as financial aid.

Institutes seek reaccreditation every 10 years from the SACS. President Richard Brodhead and Judith Ruderman, former vice provost for academic and administrative services, headed the QEP committee.

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Two singers perform at the benefit concert for Haiti in Reynolds Theater Tuesday night. The concert featured performers from DUI, Out of the Blue, the Pitchforks, Rhythm and Blue and Sabrosura.

See accreditation on page 5

Al Gore, former U.S. vice president and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver the Duke Environment and Society Lecture April 8.

The event in Page Auditorium at 6 p.m. is free, but a ticket is required. The Nicholas School of the Environment sponsors the lecture.

“Since the beginning of his career, Al Gore has been relentless in his quest to bring the truth about global warming to the world, even when the world wasn’t listening,” Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, said in a statement Tuesday. “But the world can hear him now. We are fortunate and thrilled to have him bring his message to Duke.”

Gore won the Nobel Prize in 2007 for his environmental advocacy work with scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global warming committee of the United Nations. Gore was the 45th vice president and a candidate for president in the 2000 presidential election. The same year, Gore wrote “An Inconvenient Truth,” a book on global warming and possible solutions to it.

The book was a best-seller and inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary film in 2007.

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College Park, Md. • Wednesday • 9 p.m. • ESPN

ACC title on tap at Comcast

by Scott Rich THE CHRONICLE

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Brian Zoubek and Duke crushed Maryland at home a few weeks ago, but the Blue Devils can expect a stiffer test at the Comcast Center tonight.

Just more than two weeks ago, Duke played what many deemed its most important game of the season against a surging Maryland team with the lead in the ACC standings hanging in the balance.

When the two rivals meet again tonight at 9 p.m. in College Park, the stakes will be the same. The venue, though, couldn’t be any more different.

This time, the No. 4 Blue Devils (25-4, 12-2 in the ACC) will carry their slim one-game conference lead over the No. 22 Terrapins (21-7, 11-3) into the hostile Comcast Center. Gone will be the raucous Cameron Crazies who cheered the team to a 77-56 victory over Maryland earlier this season in the celebration of head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,000th game; instead, that sea of blue will be replaced by a hostile red-clad crowd, sporting Scheyer faces and its definitive vulgar rhetoric.

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“It took 200 years to get the Crusaders out of the Middle East. That’s the kind of mentality they have.”

­—CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen on the Taliban. See story page 3

A road victory will secure the ACC regular season title for Duke. A loss would leave a tie atop the standings heading into the season’s final weekend.

“We’re definitely ready for it,” junior Nolan Smith said following Duke’s victory Sunday night at Virginia. “We’re ready for the test.… There’s a lot at stake in this game coming up, and I’m ready.”

The Blue Devils are arguably playing their best basketball of the season as the calendar turns to March. The team is riding an eight-game winning streak that includes four straight road victories, as well as convincing home wins over both Maryland and fellow ACC contender Virginia Tech.

The same could be said, though, for the Terrapins, who have themselves won five straight since that loss in Cameron, including a double-overtime victory over the Hokies in Blacksburg Saturday night.

Men’s Basketball: It’s the D! Columinst Alex Fanaroff busts out the stats again to show that Duke’s defense, not its offense, gets worse as time goes by, PAGE 6

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Freshman Wigrizer takes over in goal, Page 6

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US to train Indonesian unit

Obama proposes adding Brown enters CA gov. race GOP ideas to health bill SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Brown, the California attorney general who was twice elected governor in the 1970s and went on to become Oakland’s mayor, said Tuesday that he is running to succeed Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The announcement makes Brown, 71, the only prominent Democrat to seek the party’s nomination in the 2010 race for California’s top elected office, allowing him to conserve cash for the general election in November. On the Republican side, former eBay Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman and the state insurance commissioner, Steve Poizner, are vying for the nomination in the June primary.

Brown said his long experience in Sacramento will help him lead a state frequently hobbled by political gridlock.

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An honest man is always a child.

— Socrates

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Democrats on Capitol Hill prepared a risky effort to muscle sweeping health-care legislation to final passage, President Barack Obama on Tuesday made a last gambit to split Republicans on the issue, proposing to incorporate a handful of GOP ideas into his signature domestic initiative.

Obama plans to call on Congress Wednesday to bring the year-long debate to a swift close, and congressional leaders expect him to signal support for a strategy that includes a special budget maneuver known as reconciliation. Under that strategy, the House would adopt the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve and approve a separate package of fixes to reflect a compromise worked out between Democrats in the two chambers.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1903: North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — As President Barack Obama prepares to travel to Indonesia, his administration is seeking to reverse a 12-year-old ban on training an elite unit of the Indonesian military whose members have been convicted of beatings, kidnappings and other abuses.

The administration is floating a plan to test a training program for younger members of the Indonesian Komando Pasukan Khusus, or Kopassus. Four members of the force, including its commanding general, Maj. Gen. Lodewijk Paulus, are in Washington to discuss the proposal, several sources said.

“The details are still being worked out,” said a spokesman for the Indonesian Embassy. After a meeting with the chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Robert Willard, in Jakarta in February, Indonesia’s defense minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, predicted that collaboration between the United States and Kopassus would resume.

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Online Excerpt “Michael Jordan has promised to make his mark as the new majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, and even joined in the team’s shootaround Monday.

After the workout, Jordan challenged former Duke guard Gerald Henderson to a friendly game of H-O-R-S-E. Despite what would seem to be an intimidating matchup with the former NBA and UNC Tar Heel legend, Henderson rose to the occasion by defeating Jordan not once, but twice.’”

— From The Sports Blog sports.chronicleblogs.com

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At a U.S. regional center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Afghan police officers and prosecutors learn how to put up crime-scene tape, find evidence and take fingerprints and footprints. Near the end of one such course, a prosecutor from Takhar province said,“Afghans are used to torturing suspects. In this course, we’ve learned to stop because it’s illegal. If we have a suspect in custody, we’ve learned how to treat him.”

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Bergen breaks down Middle East conflicts

by Alejandro Bolívar THE CHRONICLE

In its ninth year, the war on terror has had its successes but still has a long way to go.

The Afghan economy is strengthening and the security situation has stabilized since 2001, when the United States invaded the country in the aftermath of 9/11 and overthrew the Taliban government, said Peter Bergen, a CNN national security analyst and senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Iraq, however, is much more violent than Afghanistan and faces a risk of civil war, Bergen noted.

“Terrorism isn’t going to be abolished, al Qaeda will not disappear but we’ve reached the point where they’re a secondorder threat and not an issue of national security,” he said during the first Steel Family Lecture at the Sanford Institute Tuesday night, in a speech titled “Obama’s War on al Qaeda and its allies.”

Bergen said one of the greatest accomplishments of the war on terror has been transforming Pakistani public perception of al Qaeda. Pakistanis have become more supportive of the United States’ military actions against al Qaeda, he said.

Al Qaeda has also been hurt by an increase in drone attacks, Bergen said. Last year under President Barack Obama’s administration, U.S. forces conducted 53 drone attacks. During the administration of former President George W. Bush, however, fewer than 40 drone attacks occurred.

The popularity of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda’s leader, has been decreasing globally and the group’s goals are poorly defined, Bergen said.

“We know what they’re against, but we

don’t know what they’re for,” he said.

Still, Bergen said bin Laden’s death would be a major victory for the West because al Qaeda depends on a cult of personality centered on bin Laden.

Bergen also discussed al Qaeda’s relationship with allied terrorist groups.

Among al Qaeda’s allies are other terrorist groups that it has ideologically or directly taught. One of those groups was the Taliban government, which began to behead hostages and use video propaganda, just as al Qaeda had done. These groups all take a long-term view of the fight in which they are engaged.

“It took 200 years to get the Crusaders out of the Middle East,” Bergen said.

“That’s the kind of mentality they have.”

Still, Bergen said the Afghan situation is improving. A January BBC poll shows that 70 percent of Afghans are optimistic about the future, up from 40 percent last year.

Bergen added, however, that this is due in part to the country’s past. He noted that Afghans have endured a Soviet invasion, a civil war and the Taliban government over the past 30 years.

He noted that more than 4.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to the country and millions of children, including girls, are now able to go to school.

“Afghans don’t care about how corrupt their government is,” Bergen said. “What they want is security.”

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CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said the United States’ work in Afghanistan has stabilized the nation and lowered the threat of al Qaeda. He warns, however, that Iraq is on the verge of a civil war.

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Duke University Union

Union plans to revamp committees

by Ray Koh

THE CHRONICLE

Duke University Union is looking into two possible structural reforms within the Major Speakers and Special Projects committees.

At their meeting Tuesday night, DUU members discussed combining Major Speakers and LiveEnt into one committee. A separate reform proposal was to split Special Projects into two committees—Innovation and Annual Events.

“Even though none of this is official yet, these are the changes we are looking into for improving DUU,” said President Zach Perret, a senior.

Perret said several LiveEnt members are going abroad next semester and the committee’s role diminished after the Durham Performing Arts Center opened. He added that it seemed logical to combine LiveEnt with Major Speakers to create one large, effective group. Each committee had a budget of $60,000 this year, and will likely have approximately $90,000 if merging gets finalized, saving DUU almost $30,000.

The new committee’s mission will be to bring live performances in accordance with DUU’s overall mission such as speakers, plays, musicals and other stage performances, said Vice President of CommuniSee duu on page 5

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Rock singer Browne GPSC bans affiliation receives LEAF award with OSAF organizations Graduate Professional Student Council

by Caitlin Guenther THE CHRONICLE

Jackson Browne has received many awards and recognitions throughout his career as a singer and songwriter, including an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It is his role as an ecological advocate, however, that the Nicholas School for the Environment wants to recognize.

Browne has been named the recipient of the second annual Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts, officials announced last week. He will visit campus April 17 to accept the award in Page Auditorium.

Browne will be accompanied by artist Dianna Cohen, who is Browne’s girlfriend.

Cohen uses plastic shopping bags as her primary artistic medium.

The executive committee of the Nicholas School’s Board of Visitors selected Browne for this year’s award because his body of work reflects an advocacy for the planet and the link that exists between people and the natural world, according to a University news release.

“This is an award for artistic work,” Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, said. “The artistic work makes a statement about the environment and connects people to the environment through that medium. We picked someone who writes songs where the environment is depicted in a way that causes people to connect to it.”

Actor Robert Redford received the first LEAF honor last year. The award was established to honor artists whose works have in-

spired others to help create a more sustainable future, according to the news release.

“People are not being connected up to the environment in a certain emotional, visceral way,” Chameides said. “Artists play a really important role in helping to make that connection. So the purpose of the award is to first recognize that role and then bring attention to that so that other artists will understand that it is an important area to express themselves.”

Browne has been actively involved in ecological work since the 1970s, when he founded Musicians United for Safe Energy with Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and John Hall to protest nuclear energy.

Browne was also identified by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the most influential musicians of his generation, the news release states.

“Browne embodies somebody who is engaged in a struggle for a cleaner, greener world,” Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page research professor of literature and Latin American studies and adviser to the Nicholas School’s Board of Visitors, said. “He brings such concerns into his art itself.”

During the weekend of April 17, Browne’s visit to the University will also coincide with an exhibition of Cohen’s artwork, which will be on display in Perkins Library.

“Part of the discussion was to make this an award that includes the participation of Dianna,” Dorfman said. “She uses plastic as a form of art installation, so part of the celebration of Jackson will also be a celebration of her work.”

by Carmen Augustine THE CHRONICLE

The Graduate and Professional Student Council will no longer affiliate with groups associated with the Office of Student Activities and Facilities.

During its weekly meeting Tuesday, GPSC voted on an amendment to follow OSAF’s request to no longer affiliate with groups connected to OSAF. This means groups can no longer affiliate with both GPSC and the Duke Student Government, as they could before the amendment was passed. With the amendment in place, GPSC will be able to fund events that groups affiliated with either DSG or GSPC predict will draw a crowd composed of at least 30 percent graduate and professional students.

Preference for funding will be given to groups affiliated with GPSC. “There are groups that would have received funding in the past but can no longer receive funding because of OSAF’s

request,” GPSC Vice President Adam Pechtel, a third-year law student, said.

OSAF made the request because it wanted to clarify how the chain of responsibility runs from each group to OSAF, Pechtel said.

The bylaw previously required that a group be affiliated with OSAF to receive funding from GPSC. “I think it sort of opens the doors to fund any event that would add to graduate student life,” said Caroline Yeager, a medical student.

Justin Ward, a fourth-year history Ph.D. candidate, proposed that another sentence be added to clarify the notion that groups will be prohibited from affiliating with both DSG and GPSC. The general assembly moved to include the sentence, “Affiliation with the Council or DSG will be required for consideration for group funding.” Groups that are affiliated with neither See gpsc on page 5

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At the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s meeting Tuesday night, members discussed and passed an amendment to prevent student groups from affiliating with both GPSC and OSAF.

ThE FUTURE OF ThE PaST, ThE FUTURE OF ThE PRESEnT:

The historical Record in the Digital age WEDnESDay, MaRCh 3, 2010 5:00–6:30 pm SOCIaL SCIEnCES BUILDIng ROOM 139

Jonathan Zittrain Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Co-Founder/Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society GaminG history: the Battle for narrative Control in the Digital age The Internet has been rightly seen as a vehicle for freedom; each day there is more information available to more people than the day before.

What are the factors that could slow, halt, or even turn the tide of access and contribution to knowledge? How do we create and hide our digital tracks? What impact will ubiquitous human computing have on the enterprise of recording and establishing history?

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duu from page 3 cations Karen Chen, a junior. She noted that merging would not be difficult because both groups have similar responsibilities and have already co-sponsored events in the past. The committees are relatively small as well, with LiveEnt currently having about six active members.

DUU members also discussed dividing the Special Projects committee into Innova-

tion and Annual Events committees.

“We wanted to have separate groups for holding annual events such as Duke Royale and another one group exploring new possible ideas,” Chen said.

Perret said the Innovative committee would carry out new programs and establish these events as annual traditions before transferring them to an appropriate committee.

In other business: Ticket sales for the April 1 Cameron

Rocks concert began 9 a.m. Monday morning and sold approximately 2,000 tickets by noon, said Major Attractions Director Liz Turner, a senior. By the end of the day, almost 2,500 tickets were sold.

“The sales for general audience begins tomorrow and we expect to sell out,” Turner said. “It will be awesome.”

Sales are available at the Duke Box Office and also online. Students can purchase tickets for $25.

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At the group’s meeting Tuesday night, Duke University Union members discuss plans to combine the Major Speakers and LiveEnt committees.

gpsc from page 4 may not apply for funding from GPSC. “The point is to benefit graduate and professional students whether they’re participating in DSG-sponsored events or GPSC-sponsored events,” said President Yvonne Ford, a fourth-year nursing Ph.D. student.

In other business: Student Health Insurance Manager Anna Salinas told the general assembly about changes that have been made to the health insurance policy. Two ultrasounds for pregnant spouses or students will now be covered under the policy. A third ultrasound is

not covered, but sometimes clients can appeal to get it covered, Salinas said, adding that it may be covered in the future.

Salinas said students’ health insurance continues until July 31, after graduation, and they should contact her to cancel their coverage if they are covered by their employers after graduation. Students can also choose to continue coverage for an additional $74 per month for up to six months.

After that, students may continue with a United Healthcare plan or find another health care provider.

Rolando Estrada, a computer science student, told the general assembly about the options for a new GPSC Web site.

The Web site committee proposed two options for Web site renovations. In the first,

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Duke Web Services­—a private company that works within the Duke community—could develop a new site or revamp the current one, which would cost between $2,000 and $7,000. In the second, GPSC could work with the Duke Innovative Design Agency, a student-run design agency that works with student groups, to enhance the Web site.

The latter would be free but would restrict the committee in terms of the site’s design, Estrada said.

The general assembly will vote on these options at its March 23 meeting. Students testified that the Web site is currently not user-friendly.

“Anything might be better,” said Laura Johnson, a graduate student in evolutionary anthropology.

accreditation from page 1 To be accredited, a school must adhere to the standards outlined by the “Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement” and the policies and procedures of the Commission on Colleges. Last January, Duke was found noncompliant in 10 areas, including competency and qualification of faculty. The University then submitted a second report and underwent an on-site review last March.

Schoenfeld said the reaccreditation process is very broad and covers a range of issues.

“There are always particular issues that the University pays attention to, but overall the end result is accreditation,” he said.

As part of Duke’s commitment as stated in the QEP, the University implemented the Winter Forum, held the week before the start of Spring semester. Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, told the Academic Council last month that 95 percent of participants said they would recommend the experience to other students.

Schoenfeld said the Winter Forum was received positively by the SACS review.

He also noted that the University takes the review very seriously, and that the accreditation process is not merely routine.

“I expect what an accreditor looked for 10 years ago is different from today,” Schoenfeld said.

SACS is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education, and accredits schools located in the southern states. It also accredits some institutions in Latin America and other international areas, according to the SACS Web site.

Other members of the SACS include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Sports

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It’s the defense, stupid

Two weeks ago in this space, I made the case that the performance of Duke’s basketball team has historically declined as the ACC season progressed. Like a good scientist, I declined to speculate in print about the causes behind that decline.

Of course, I had my hypotheses, and in the two intervening weeks, I’ve been back in the lab (read: on kenpom.com and statsheet.com) working on The Unified Theory of Alex Duke Basketball Performance (At Least Over the Past Six Years Or So).

I took as my starting point one of the most common criticisms of Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, and one that is particularly relevant this year: He plays his star players too many minutes, causing them to tire and collapse down the stretch. Defenders of this theory have ample anecdotal evidence to back up their point—most recently, J.J. Redick’s perceived slump to end the season in 2006 and Kyle Singler’s decline last year. And with Singler, Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith each averaging more than 35 minutes per game this season, it’s a pressing concern.

So I looked at the last nine years, and divided all the Blue Devil starters into two groups—high-minute players and lowminute players. High-minute players were defined as guards that averaged 34 minutes per game or more over the course of the season and forwards that averaged 32 minutes or more. Over the past nine years, 12 individual seasons have met this definition: Shane Battier (2001), Mike Dunleavy

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The Blue Devils host Xavier today at 4 p.m. at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, one of three home parks they will use this year

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Men’s lacrosse

A freshman between the pipes

Fanaroff

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Pennsylvania native Dan Wigrizer started the very first game of his freshman season, against then-No. 19 Bucknell last month, and has held onto the starting role.

by Danny Vinik THE CHRONICLE

For freshman goalie Dan Wigrizer, it’s all about keeping the game simple. Stay poised, stop the ball and clear it.

“I don’t let anything get to my mind,” Wigrizer said. “I don’t look around [or] look at the crowd. [I just] keep focused.

[It’s] just like playing another game, just like another day in the office.”

So far so good for Wigrizer, who is first in the ACC in saves per game to this point. In the Blue Devils’ 12-11 overtime victory over then-No. 19 Bucknell to open the season, Wigrizer made 17 saves and kept Duke in the game throughout.

“He deserves credit for winning us the Bucknell game,” defenseman Parker Mc-

Kee said. “Coming in freshman year, first time playing with the squad and he makes 17 saves. That’s a hell of a job. That’s above and beyond his call of duty.”

Wiggy, as his teammates call him, stands at just 5-foot-11 and 190 pounds, significantly smaller than last year’s starter, fifth-year senior Rob Schroeder. What the freshman lacks in size, though, he makes up for in natural ability and hard work.

“Schro[eder] was a bigger presence in net, because he was like [6-foot-1], 230, but Wiggy brings the unexpected presence to the net,” McKee said. “He’s a freshman and he’s small so you don’t expect him to bring much to the table, but it’s not the size of the dog, it’s the

heart inside of him. [The] kid has a lot of heart and he’s very talented.”

A graduate of the Haverford School in Haverford, Penn., Wigrizer was a three-year starter who earned both firstteam all-county and first-team all-state recognition three times. His junior season, Haverford went 17-7 with Wigrizer in net and lost in the league semifinals.

He was selected as an Under Armour Junior All-American and was named a U.S. Lacrosse High School All-American.

In his senior year, though, Wigrizer became one of the elite high school goalies in the country and earned Haverford a 16-8 record and a league championship.

See wigrizer on page 7

Men’s golf

Duke takes 3rd in Ponte Vedra

by Ryan Claxton THE CHRONICLE

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J.J. Redick did not fade offensively as the season went on, but the statistics show Duke’s defense did.

What started as a sunny February trip to Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. took on a bit of a sour note Tuesday, as Duke posted a 16over 304 on the last day of competition to fall back to a thirdplace finish at the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational.

The Blue Devils put together two solid rounds Sunday and Monday at Sawgrass Country Club, posting scores of 294 and 291, respectively. Those scores put Duke in second place overall at 9-over par for the tournament heading into day three—only three shots off the lead.

Wind gusts of up to 30 miles per hour and a Louisiana State team that posted a 3-over 291 on the day dropped the Blue Devils to third place behind the Tigers and tournament host North Florida, despite Duke placing four golfers in the top 25. The Ospreys won the tournament with a 12-over 876 team score.

“Anytime you’re in position to win a tournament going into the back nine on the last day—it’s an enviable position a lot of folks would like to be in,” head coach Jamie Green said. “Unfortunately, we just didn’t really close the deal. North Florida played exceptionally well on the back nine when the wind picked up to a really high level.”

Duke’s struggles were concentrated on that back nine. The Blue Devils held a two-stroke advantage over Louisiana State with three holes remaining and all of the Tigers in the clubhouse. The par-three 15th proved to be Duke’s biggest obstacle to a second-place finish, though, as only one of the five Blue Devils—freshman Adam Sumrall—managed to make par. The other four Duke players combined for two bogies and two double bogies on the hole.

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wigrizer from page 6 Wigrizer was selected as an Under Armour Senior All-American and county Player of the Year along with earning his second U.S. Lacrosse High School All-American selection. With high school over, however, Wigrizer has had to transition to the college game, specifically the quicker pace.

“The ball moves a lot faster just around the field as a whole,” Wigrizer said. “People are faster, the shots are faster and they are better-placed shots. It’s tough to get used to. In one second, the ball can [move] from one side of the field to the other.”

The speed of the game may have increased, but with the guidance of assistant coach Pat DeBolt, the freshman is trying to remain focused and keep his anxiety from affecting his game.

“He gets very anxious sometimes, but he’s done a great job having poise, making big saves and moving the ball up the field and into the appropriate spots that he needs to,” DeBolt said. “When I first came in here, I used to always tell him, ‘Just take a big breath. Take a big breath.’ If you ever watch us during warm-ups, I’ll say, ‘Wiggy, just take two big breaths for me and just relax.’”

The transition has been made easier by the fact that Wigrizer is playing under two great coaches in DeBolt and head coach John Danowski.

“Throughout the first three games, I feel like I’m a ten times better goalie than I was when I stepped onto the field in the beginning of the season, let alone when I stepped onto the field at the beginning of fall,” Wigrizer said. “There are even times during the game when Coach DeBolt will call me over and give me more pointers and more hints. It’s just awesome having their support throughout the entire time.”

Wigrizer’s luck does not stop at his

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Senior defenseman Parker McKee played with two veteran goalkeepers, Dan Loftus and Rob Schroeder, before freshman Dan Wigrizer took over in net this season. coaching staff, as he is fortunate enough to be playing in front of the experienced defensive group of McKee, junior Michael Manley and senior Dan Theodoridis.

Wigrizer said the defense’s experience and talent has helped him keep his composure in the crease, and added that he expects his defensemen to allow only shots from beyond 12 yards out, a distance he is expected to make saves from.

DeBolt echoed Wigrizer’s comments in that playing behind such skilled, veteran defenders takes the pressure off the freshman goalie and allows him to focus purely on ball-stopping, rather than both ball-

stopping and communication. “[The] defense has been together long enough that they know how to communicate to themselves and not depend upon the goalie necessarily,” DeBolt said. “I tell the defense, ‘You guys are going to have to talk more and to depend more on yourselves rather than your goalie.’”

Even with the great coaching and strong defensemen in front of him, Wigrizer knows that he cannot sit back and expect those around him to carry him. Instead of being known as a freshman goalie, he wants to be known as the goalie of a national contender.

“I want to be able to walk out onto the

field and [have the other team] worry about the goalie in net [instead of them saying,] ‘It’s only a freshman goalie. Take a lot of shots.’” Wigrizer said. “As long as I’m able to save the ball, I feel like that can build my reputation and people won’t look at me as the freshman goalie anymore, but instead as the Duke goalie.”

While one of Wigrizer’s goals is to earn respect from his opponents, his top priority echoes the main target for the rest of his team: He wants to win a national championship.

And to make it to the championship game in Baltimore this May, all he has to do is keep it simple.

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terps from page 1 Maryland’s rush to the top of the ACC standings and into the Top 25 has been keyed, as expected, by ACC Player of the Year contender Greivis Vasquez. The senior, who is averaging 19.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 6.4 assists per game this season, scored 41 points against Virginia Tech.

“Vasquez is playing lights-out,” Krzyzewski said. “I think teamwise, they’re one of the best teams in the country because they really know how to make use of one another. And in Vasquez, they have a guy who has a motor that can match anybody’s motor in the country. He’s got a great will.”

If the Terrapins are to spring the home upset, however, they will need Vasquez’s supporting cast to come through, something that has been an issue at times this season.

While senior Landon Milbourne is averaging 13 points per game, no other Maryland player averages more than 11.

Opponents have exploited this weakness in the Terrapins’ losses, like the one in Durham, where only Vasquez and reserve Cliff Tucker scored in double digits. No other Terrapin scored more than eight points.

Maryland’s lack of height—the team only has three players listed taller than 6-foot-9—could exacerbate this is-

sue by allowing Duke’s own role players down low, led by the resurgent Brian Zoubek and defensive stalwart Lance Thomas, to have a major impact on the contest.

But beyond the game’s obvious meaning in the ACC race, a victory could have far-reaching implications for the Blue Devils. After losing star Robbie Hummel to a torn ACL last week and then falling to Michigan State at home Sunday, Purdue has seemingly lost its grip on the fourth No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, leading many experts to predict Duke could claim that position if it wins its remaining games.

The Blue Devils, though, maintain they are focused on the present rather than what is largely out of their control. “[The No. 1 seed] is not even on the radar. It is not talked about for one second—we have Maryland and North Carolina coming up,” Krzyzewski said.

Indeed, before Duke fans can even begin to dream of a possible NCAA Tournament run, the Blue Devils will need to survive a gauntlet of a last week that includes both of their major rivals.

“It’s going to be hectic,” Thomas said of the stretch run. “We have a crazy week ahead of us, but we’re ready for it. We’ve worked to get to this point and we want to finish it off right.” maya robinson/Chronicle file photo

Senior Adam Long’s 5-over finish was Duke’s best of the week.

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Greivis Vasquez got his points against Duke Feb. 13—he scored 17 of them—but the Blue Devils won that game to take control of the ACC title race.

“Fifteen and 16 are pretty tough holes generally,” Green said. “Even without a breath of wind you still have to hit really solid golf shots and get your work done on the green…. Fifteen is a par-three over the water where basically you have a situation where you just have to step up and hit it. You don’t know how the wind is going to affect the ball—you just have to hold your breath a little bit when you’re in that kind of wind.”

Freshman Julian Suri had an especially tough time on the back nine, shooting 5-over par down the stretch.

Despite a birdie on 11, Suri bogied holes 13 and 18 and carded back-to-back double bogies on 15 and 16.

Even with these day three struggles, Suri provided some excitement for the Blue Devils on day two as he was among only 12 competitors under par on the round, netting a 2-under score of 70. Unfortunately, Suri never got comfortable on the leaderboard, as he carded an 8-over-par 80 on day one and finished with a 6-over 78 on day three. “[Suri is] certainly a terrific player,” Green said. “Our guys are all very competitive. It’s going to be a good thing for us down the stretch as we move on through the season, getting our guys a little taste of how well they can play. Even if they don’t quite get there each time or in as many rounds as they’d like, if they get a little taste and just realize what they’re capable of, we should be able to go out there and shoot for par.”

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Communication is leadership The role of the modern cupies less of the president’s university president is impos- schedule, delegation can sibly broad. They must man- only go so far. In all of this, age faculty, staff and students, the president must remain oversee admissions and alum- a central figure and actively ni relations and ensure finan- maintain responsibility for cial sustainabildelivering core ity—all while messages to editorial presenting a vithe university’s sion for growth and adhering diverse stakeholders. to the fundamental values of To this task, every univeran academic institution. sity president brings a unique The rapid growth in the style and set of talents. Presiscope and function of Ameri- dent Richard Brodhead’s is can higher education, how- professorial in nature. He ever, has only increased these speaks eloquently, employs pressures and demands. In theoretical language and response, university presidents seeks to develop a strong conhave reasonably tasked legions nection with his audience as of vice presidents and adminis- if he is engaging in academic trative assistants to keep their dialogue. Brodhead is not a institutions up and running populist president, and stuand continue their expansion. dents or faculty are not likely But as the day-to-day op- to see him rubbing shoulders eration of the university oc- on the quad.

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This approach has served him well during his presidency’s few times of normalcy. Although we wish he had made more public statements across constituencies during his first term in office, Brodhead used his communication skills to define a university committed to “knowledge in the service of society” and build relationships with separate stakeholders.

But in times of crisis, like our current hour, the importance of presidential communication is heightened.

Brodhead must recognize that—more than any vice president or public relations official—his voice is most recognizable, most legitimate and carries the most weight.

Since the financial crisis hit last Fall, Brodhead has sought to keep the Universi-

ty community abreast of decisions after they are made.

While it is understandable to avoid drumming up hysteria by sending a constant barrage of messages, communication should also be made during the decisionmaking process.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni do not need to know all of the financial details, but they must be reassured that the administration is up to the challenge. During times of uncertainty, this responsibility falls squarely with the president.

In recent weeks, Brodhead has actively fulfilled this role. On Feb. 10, he delivered a State of the University address to the faculty, and the following Tuesday, he spoke candidly to em-

ployees about the University’s plan to combat budget shortfalls head on. Both speeches were suitably tailored to their audiences and delivered a salient message.

This level of communication with the public should continue, and it should not exclude the student body.

Although students have yet to tangibly feel the effects of budget cuts, as financial stakeholders in the future of the University, they deserve to know how Duke is progressing under financial uncertainty.

Brodhead himself should deliver this message.

As the administration continues to pinches pennies and cut budgets, Brodhead must do what he alone can—reassure the University community that its future is strong.

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received a hilarious e-mail recently, and I’m including a part of it here with the sender’s permission.

“Why has there been a dearth of interesting e-mails sent to this listserv of late? Entertain me, please. I’m a poor guy who sits in front of his computer figuring out code all day long. Every time my Thunderbird bird pops up at the bottom right daniel wong of my screen and says, ‘You have new loving life, mail,’ I swear my loving lives heart skips a beat.

It’s like something really exciting is about to happen—something which will jar me from my otherwise miserable existence. Also, I don’t know how many of you use Thunderbird, but dang it, the bird reminds me of a stork delivering a baby to soon-to-be parents. It’s like a little bundle of joy.”

I think that most of us can identify—to some extent, at least—with my friend’s sense of anticipation at receiving a new e-mail. Sure, all of us complain about receiving 50 e-mails a day, but there’s always hope that the next one will tell you that you won a prize or that you just landed your dream job or that your three-hour lab is canceled this week.

E-mail has certainly revolutionized the way we communicate, and none of us would question its usefulness. Yet despite its convenience, there are many dangers associated with it.

Like most of you readers out there, I’ve personally received and sent thousands of e-mails— which I guess is a fair amount of e-mail “experience.” I decided to list down some of the things I’ve learned so far, and you can feel free to disagree. Most of my learning points stem from the fact that e-mails are often misunderstood because you can’t properly convey emotions. And once you, as the recipient, have decided what you think the sender intended to say, you respond— frequently even before you’ve had a chance to clarify the ambiguous parts of the message. So here’s the list I’ve come up with: 1. E-mail should only be used to communicate “neutral” or “positive” messages, and not “negative” ones.

E-mail should be used to share information, ask questions, accept offers and give compliments. These are all “neutral” or “positive” things.

In some of these cases, however, a phone call or a face-to-face conversation might still be more appropriate.

E-mail should never be used to criticize or to tell people off, nor should it be used as a platform to vent frustration or to express anger. I’ve even seen e-mail employed as an instrument of emotional blackmail— and it wasn’t pretty how things turned out. Some people I know have even found out that they’ve been kicked off a team or organization via e-mail. That’s like being fired from your job via e-mail!

2. The “Bcc” function should be used when appropriate.

My friend and I once applied for a summer program where spaces were limited. When I received the e-mail telling me that I was through to the interview round, the sender did not Bcc the recipients. I could see exactly who else had been selected—and my friend was not on the list! That certainly made for some awkwardness. (I didn’t make it past the interview round, which helped to mitigate the sticky situation.)

Like me, you probably receive far too many sensitive e-mails which should be Bcc-ed instead of just sent “To” the recipients.

3. Do not reply or forward a personal e-mail to a group of people.

We craft our e-mails differently if we think it will be read by one person, compared to if we think it will be read by a group of people. On a number of occasions I’ve made inquiries over e-mail to a single person. The recipient, however, replied not just to me, but to other people who might have had the same question as me—without deleting my initial e-mail from the thread. I was left feeling slightly embarrassed: I didn’t know that my question (which now seemed extremely foolish) would be read by so many people!

4. Before you even start writing an e-mail, ask yourself if it wouldn’t be more effective to just make a phone call.

I’ve certainly been guilty of not adhering to this guideline. I’ve arranged meetings and study sessions by e-mail; I’ve given advice and performed counseling by e-mail; I’ve made apologies and tried to mend friendships by e-mail. Yet I think that a phone call or in-person conversation would have been a better option in many of those instances.

As a concluding remark, I’ve heard it said that we ought to strive for efficiency with things and effectiveness with people. At the heart of it, communication is about people, not merely information and details. Admittedly, e-mail is an efficient form of communication, but it is not necessarily the most effective. Let’s pause the next time before we click “Send” to ask ourselves if that “bundle of joy” might turn out to be a “bundle of terror” instead.

Daniel Wong is a Pratt junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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lettertotheeditor Unfounded skepticism Rather than focus on the obvious practical need for a unified group of independents, people like Bradford Colbert in his March 2 column, “Independent thinking,” have spent more time getting hung up on the definition of “independent.”

Here’s what he should get hung up on: Independents comprise an overwhelming majority of Duke’s undergraduate body, but an overwhelming minority in decisions regarding housing and campus culture.

Take the recent Residential Group Assessment Committee, for instance. Five groups on Section and Conduct probation were allowed to remain on West Campus. The Panhellenic Council and a fraternity were granted sections on Central Campus. Without great consent, independents donated those housing options to these groups.

When the selectives were dissatisfied with the “menu” of housing options available for them to dine upon, they successfully lobbied to bring themselves closer to common rooms. Those common rooms are now going to be dominated by selectives, and will thus be less attractive and practically inaccessible to independents.

These decisions were made primarily by greeks and SLGs. RGAC was composed of four Interfraternity Council delegates, four Selective House Council delegates and three Campus Council delegates. Campus Council’s newly elected executive board includes four greeks and one independent.

Campus Council cannot appreciably promote independent interests without a better understanding of independents’ desires; that is where the Group of Duke Independents comes in.

I’m not sure why none of this is as disconcerting to GDI’s nay-sayers as it is to the ever-growing membership of GDI. If Colbert can wave his magic wand and solve the campus culture issues that cause unaffiliated students to be disjointed, we encourage him to do so. Until he does, we need to have a lobbying organization that ensures independents are involved in the discussions that bring those solutions to fruition. Absent GDI, those discussions will continue as they have for the past several decades, namely with representation disproportionally in favor of selectives. Oligarchy, I think the Greeks call it.

Joe Catapano President, Group of Duke Independents Trinity ’11

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Four-letter words

he call to curse was strongest in the fifth grade, when my classmates were convinced they had discovered the words and sought to spread them to the furthest reaches of the playground.

Once, while we pressed our noses to the chain-link fence that separated gossip hour and gym class in the agonizingly long minutes before lunch, my friend realized that julia love she had never heard the trendy new words a love story pass my lips.

“Just whisper it to me,” she reasoned. “No one will hear.”

She was instantly proven wrong. A crowd of tweens formed around me, clamoring for me to say the word.

“F-U-C-,” I began, each letter punctuated by a question mark. My friend asked me to say the word, but I could only bring myself to spell it. Thankfully, before I could finish, I was saved by the bell.

I could type the word over and over in this column, but I think my editor might have a heart attack— she knows me too well. I can imagine how gratifying it must be to stub your toe and pierce the air with an expletive yelped at full volume. But the truth is, I’ve never really been moved to curse, even under my breath. Besides, the words never really sounds as they are intended to when uttered with a smile and a giggle, and I know no other way to say them.

There’s really nothing stopping me—my parents certainly aren’t the type to wash out a foul mouth with soap. My father is a columnist who tests the limits of his newspaper’s censors each week. Once, when recounting a botched driver’s exam to my father, I searched to find the right words for my sour instructor.

“What a jerk-off,” my Dad chimed in with an expletive. (What would be the plural form of this insult? Jerkers off?) The question I debated growing up was not whether I could get away with cursing, but how I could make the act feel honest.

I cannot deny this truth about myself when I am at Duke or in my hometown. My sense of self is grounded by friends and family who know me almost as well as I do, well enough to spot a schizophrenic shift in my performance. There is something comforting about this weight, and yet it can be hard to shoulder year after year. We can be anything we want to be,

within the realm of who people think we are.

I am convinced that this phenomenon contributes to the Junior-Year Diaspora. The ostensible reason for going abroad is to see sights you can never see at Duke, but that’s not all. In these distant places, we fancy that we can finally flaunt aspects of ourselves that only we see—and the new collection of friends we have selected will be none the wiser.

An opportunity to re-imagine myself arose unexpectedly during study hour with my 6-year-old host sister. Sometimes it takes two to read a novel. Sitting side by side at the foot of my bed, I underline the Spanish words I do not know and Teresita enlightens me with a language that has elements of Spanish syntax but consists mainly of hand puppets and sound effects.

When I was at a loss for the Spanish word for cave, my study buddy shut off the lights, shrieked and approximated the flight of a bat. When I stumbled over the word for concussion, she banged her skull against the headboard with so much enthusiasm that I felt a little guilty.

Yet this study session, there was one phrase that rendered Teresita both mute and immobile. Finally, she leveled with me: “I do not know how to explain it. I think it is a very dirty word.”

After reading the novel, I made a flashcard for the word that had stumped us, as I try to do with all new Spanish vocabulary I encounter. If I could commit the word to memory, master its diverse parts of speech and nail the pronunciation, maybe I could use it convincingly in conversation, I thought to myself.

With eight weeks left in the semester, there’s hope for me yet. Perhaps large portions of what I say will soon have to be bleeped out. You may not want me within 10 feet of your mother come Parents’ Weekend next year.

We are young, not yet set in our ways, and at times it seems we can mix and match parts of our persona to form a new and more appealing whole, if we can only escape those who know better. Yet with each passing day here in Spain, this transformation seems less and less plausible for me. I am slowly realizing that even in the most exotic of environs I am always, irrevocably, myself.

I can introduce myself as Carmen at a bar, stain my lips a shade of red and cuss out any man who looks at me the wrong way tonight if I like. But it doesn’t mean a thing if I don’t believe it.

Julia Love is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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f you went to anything like a typical American high school—it may have been parochial, private or public, big or small, just as long as it has a football team and a badly ignorant principal—there’s a good chance you’re familiar with a particular kind of malaise.

No, this has nothing to do with Jimmy “Malaise” Carter. I’m referring to the overwhelming feeling connor southard that you were a prisoner dead poet of the place and the moment. It’s as if going to high school were actual incarceration—once senioritis kicked in, your rhetoric took on terms like “serving out a sentence,” and there was a reason for that. You felt as though you were caught in the vice-grip of circumstance. Where you were seemed to hold a great deal of sway over what you were, or at least what you could do.

It was bloody eff-ing frustrating. Good thing you had college to look forward to.

A few years on, you may start to notice some curious parallels between that earlier dissatisfaction and whatever it is that’s eating you now (which is probably something, since Duke often seems to be a community that coalesces best around our shared complaints about this, that and the dining plan). For starters, there’s the recur-

ring temptation to look at circumstances—now colored blue and white and requiring you to pass two quantitative studies classes—and say “I’ll soldier on through this place and its [insert issue(s)] and reach the other end and then I’ll feel more fulfilled.”

It’s the rhetoric of the bloody eff-ing frustrated. It would take too much time to catalogue all the reasons for this half-new, half-familiar sense of unrest, but there’s a general tone of restlessness and a general theme of at times feeling trapped and over-obliged. Sometimes it doesn’t feel as if you’re playing the game of college life; it feels like the game is playing you.

But the frustrations of the past need not be the frustrations of the present. You should probably be a little bit pissed off at yourself if college feels nearly as imprisoning as high school. It’s entirely possible that, far from fighting too hard, you’re not fighting hard enough. Attending college does entail any number of obligations, ranging from the petty to the mildly serious, but we’re probably old enough now to know that we can handle some responsibilities without being actually imprisoned by them. A little intellectual combativeness is in order.

We have a tendency to feel—and talk, and act—as if we’re put upon in a way that mimics the worst excesses of our college admissions-obsessed high school years.

Or, rather, we don’t conceive of our burdens (whether academic pressure, professional fears, etc.) as something we’ve chosen to shoulder; we feel them shoved on top of

us. “Put upon,” once again, as if we’ve been sentenced.

We take it all in stride—or we at least take it—because we feel the insecurity of the un-established: we’re strivers, we’re aspirants. We’re afraid because we don’t yet have much to our names—as of yet, we’ve got nothing.

We’ve also got nothing to lose.

If you ever feel like you’re in prison, watch a good prison movie: “Cool Hand Luke.” You may have seen it, and if you have you’ll remember Paul Newman (Luke) at the prison poker table, the stoic, cavalier new guy, bluffing his way into a pile of cash. When queried about what he was doing playing against a strong opponent with no poker hand to speak of, Luke replies, “Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.”

We’ll never again be totally obligation-free, but we really do have less (to worry about and protect) now than we’ll ever again have. That’s not just reason to worry about how we’ll get something; that’s also reason not to fear taking a few lumps along the way. Don’t be put upon any more: stonewall the hell out of whatever circumstances are betting against you, and break them down whether you’ve got the cards or not.

If that sounds especially obvious and bland, then I envy your heroic composure. But, quick question: If you’ve already got your “Cool Hand Luke” act down so well, can you also eat 50 eggs?

Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore His column runs every Wednesday.

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fanaroff from page 6 (2002),Chris Duhon (2002-2004), Daniel Ewing (2005), Redick (20052006), Shelden Williams (20052006), Josh McRoberts (2007), and Singler (2009).

To measure performance, I used individual offensive rating, a tempo-free tool that essentially measures how many points a player individually creates per 100 possessions. Field goals, free throws and offensive rebounds are point-creating events; turnovers and missed shots go down as wasted possessions.

When I graphed individual offensive rating over the course of the ACC season for high-minute and low-minute players, I found a surprising result. High-minute players did not experience a significant decline in offensive performance over the course of the season. Low-minute players actually did have a slight decline, but for both groups, the date explained less than two percent of the decline in individual offensive performance. Furthermore, no single high-minute player experienced a significant decline or rise in offensive performance over the course of the year.

At this point, I was at a loss.

If Duke was declining over the course of the season, but none of the individual players showed any signs of decline, then how could it be happening?

Then, quick as a Brian Zoubek hook shot, it hit me. It’s the defense, stupid!

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I repeated my scatterplots from two weeks ago, comparing efficiency to progression through the ACC schedule, except this time, instead of subtracting defensive efficiency from offensive efficiency to arrive at efficiency margin, I kept the two factors separate.

Not surprisingly, given the stability of individual offensive players’ performance over the past six years, offensive efficiency remained constant over the course of the season. However, Duke’s defense allowed 0.01 more points per possession every game. And that difference adds up. Assuming 67-possession games (the national average), Duke’s defense has historically yielded nearly 13 more points per game in the last game of the conference season than the first (0.01 x 67 x 19 = 12.7).

I now knew that Duke’s lateseason slides could be almost wholly attributed to a decline in defensive performance; still, I was no closer to determining whether this decline was due to fatigue or some other factor.

Unfortunately, there’s no statistical magic bullet for measuring fatigue. So instead I got to thinking: When I play basketball, what sorts of defensive things do I stop doing as well once I get tired? I don’t box out, don’t get in passing lanes to steal the ball, don’t challenge shots as effectively and I reach in rather than moving my feet on defense.

Fortunately, these are things that one can measure statistically, by looking at the percentage of

an opponents’ missed shots that a team rebounds (defensive rebound percentage), the percentage of opponents’ possessions that end in steals (steal percentage), the percentage of opponents’ shots that are blocked (block percentage), and the frequency with which an opponent gets to the free throw line (free throw rate). You could argue that the percentage of shots an opponent makes could also be tied to fatigue—in that an opponent will have more uncontested and lightly contested shots— but this could also be due to a number of other factors, most prominently, better offensive execution.

I ran more spreadsheets, this time comparing defensive rebound percentage, steal percentage, block percentage and free throw rate to time point in the ACC schedule over the last six years. Of all four “fatigue-related” statistics, only steal percentage showed a significant decline— Duke stole the ball less often as the season went on. Defensive rebound percentage, block percentage and free throw rate were essentially constant.

Still, that significant decline in steal percentage was intriguing, especially given its obvious tie-in with fatigue. I looked further into the data, and found that opponents’ effective field goal percentage (same as field goal percentage, but a made threepointer counts for 1.5 points) also increased significantly over the course of the season.

Of course, the problem with

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effective field goal percentage is that there’s no true way to know whether an opponent made more shots as a result of lax defense or better offensive execution.

However, I reasoned that opponents’ assist rate (percentage of baskets that are assisted) could provide a clue: Better offensive execution is (generally) characterized by better passing. And when I crunched the numbers, I found no significant increase in Duke’s opponents’ assist percentage over the course of the season.

Objectively speaking, the decline in Duke’s defensive performance over the course of the ACC season can be attributed only to a decline in steals and improved shooting by opponents. Tellingly, opponents are not passing the ball better, only shooting better, making improved offensive execution by

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the opposition an unlikely cause of Duke’s late-season defensive woes.

The combination of data paints a picture of a team worn out on defense late in the year, unable to athletically contest shots or steal away passes. Of course, a team can tire for many reasons, either for lack of depth, a coach’s insistence on playing star players for too many minutes or overly rigorous practices. This analysis is incapable of differentiating between those causes.

Still, while it’s too early to draw any conclusions from this season, Duke’s defensive efficiency has actually improved so far, and its steal percentage and effective field goal percentage allowed have remained close to constant. So far, keeping Scheyer, Singler and Smith on the court hasn’t hurt the Blue Devils at all.

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