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DURHAM, N.C. -- Wake Forest and Duke have been getting it done on defense.The instate Atlantic Coast Conference rivals meet Saturday in their league opener, and both have defenses that have been overshadowed by offenses that were at opposite ends of the spectrum during their openers.Neither team allowed a touchdown in opening-game victories, with Wake Forest beating Tulane 7-3 and Duke taking care of North Carolina Central 49-6.The challenge is twofold, Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said. Weve got to get better (on offense) from Week 1, and weve got a challenging group to do it against.The Demon Deacons (1-0) were strong on defense , allowing Tulane a field goal on its opening drive and nothing else. The 280 total yards they gave up was misleading because they didnt get much relief from an offense that struggled to stay on the field -- especially in the second half, when the offense ran just 26 plays and gained three first downs.Duke (1-0) put up even better numbers against a Championship Subdivision opponent. The Blue Devils gave up just 112 total yards -- the fewest ever surrendered by a David Cutcliffe-coached team -- and both field goals by the Eagles came after Duke turnovers. Central didnt have a drive longer than six plays or 21 yards.But that was against a low-level opponent. The stakes go way up this week, because this earlier-than-usual result will show up in the league standings.You learn quickly the lesson of intensity, Cutcliffe said, so were anxious to see if we practice and play with an ACC intensity.---Some things to know about the Wake Forest-Duke rivalry:- QB CONCERNS: Clawson is sticking with his two-quarterback system , starting junior John Wolford but bringing in sophomore Kendall Hinton. Neither one was particularly sharp in the opener, with Wolford throwing for 79 yards and Hinton rushing for a team-best 24 yards with the games only touchdown. He says their numbers would have been better had the Demon Deacons receivers pulled in some catchable balls against Tulane, adding that the bottom line is, we didnt make those plays and as a result, we were not as productive on offense as we need to be.- KEEP UP WITH JONES: Duke QB Daniel Jones is coming off one of the best debuts in Duke history. He threw for 189 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for another score while amassing a passer rating of 216.51 -- a school single-game record for freshmen.- STREAKY SERIES: Its been Dukes turn to dominate this Tobacco Road rivalry. The Blue Devils have won four straight in the series, including last years 27-21 decision in Winston-Salem, after the Demon Deacons reeled off 12 wins in a row from 2000-11.- CAM CAN, CANT HE? Wake Forest needs to get its best player the ball more often. TE Cam Serigne managed just three catches for 15 yards against Tulane. Serigne entered the season with 100 catches during the past two years, leading the team with 54 in 2014. Maybe facing Duke will help -- he has 11 career receptions and two touchdowns against the Blue Devils, and his only 100-yard game -- a five-catch, 135-yard effort -- came in last years meeting.---Follow Joedy McCreary at http://twitter.com/joedyap. 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Cheap Jerseys From China . -- Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings was selected Monday to his second straight Pro Bowl, while guard Kyle Long made it after a solid rookie season.Dozens of Pat Summitts former Tennessee players and coaches descended on Knoxville over the weekend, making the basketball pilgrimage to say their final goodbyes to the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history.Summitt, who died Tuesday morning at age 64, was much more than just their coach. She was a role model, a second mother, a friend, a mentor.WNBA stars Candace Parker and Tamika Catchings knew they had to see her one more time. So they flew in over the weekend between WNBA games.Shes touched so many lives in the game of basketball and has grown the game, Parker said. Shes changed the way womens basketball is played. Shes changed the nature of womens basketball. She changed the way I looked at life.Shes not a person that just talks the talk, she walks the walk as well.Catchings said the biggest thing that Summitt taught her was integrity.Have integrity in everything you do, Catchings said Tuesday.I was blessed to have the opportunity to have such an amazing role model and such an amazing mentor, sister and friend, she added. To have the opportunity to be around someone like her (was special).Summitt came to watch Catchings win her only WNBA title in 2012. It meant the world to Catchings as she embraced her coach after the series clinching game.Catchings went with her mom to see Summit toward the end of last year. She knew she had to see her one more time before she died.Selfishly, I wish she was here, Catchings said. When I think about it, Im glad that she is free.Basketballs, orange and white balloons and flowers were left in front of her statue on Tennessees campus Tuesday. Summitts family plans a private funeral and burial but will hold a celebration of her life July 14 at Thompson-Boling Arena, where the court is named after the former coach.Shes the most important figure in the history of the sport, former Tennessee player Kara Lawson said. Her impact, she forever changed the sport, and her impact will always be felt by any player tthat plays the game.dddddddddddd Anybody that loves the game of basketball owes a debt of gratitude to her. You think of how far the womens game has come, how normal it is to watch women play on TV, how normal it is for a young boy to look up to a young woman. That wasnt normal.Summitt helped grow womens basketball as her Lady Vols dominated the sport in the late 1980s and 1990s, winning six titles in 12 years. She made people care about the game.I think she brought the womens college game from the back page to the front page, Los Angeles Sparks coach Brian Agler said. Tennessee was the foundation that the modern era of womens basketball was built on.In 1995 when she played UConn in a national televised game, the AP held its womens basketball poll until the game ended -- the first and only time thats happened in the polls 40-year history. Tennessee and Connecticut had the best rivalry in the sport over the next dozen years before it ended. UConn coach Geno Auriemma put Summitts impact succinctly when he said Monday:Our sport is synonymous with Pat Summitt, and Pat Summitt is synonymous with womens basketball.Tennessee -- the only school she coached -- won NCAA championships in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996-98 and 2007-08. Summitt, who won eight NCAA championships overall, had a career record of 1,098-208 in 38 seasons, plus 18 NCAA Final Four appearances.But a stat that was really important to the Hall of Fame coach during the 38 years she coached at Tennessee: graduation rate.It was huge for her, said Holly Warlick, who took over for Summitt as coach of Tennessee and also played for her. You were not going to step on the floor if you missed a class, her rules were very simple. We still use them today.You sit in the first three rows. If you miss a class, you miss a game. ... She never wavered. We still have a 100 percent graduation rate. ' ' '