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Duke volleyball defeats NC Central in ‘Battle for Bull City’ exhibition match

The Duke volleyball season won’t officially get underway until next Friday, but the Blue Devils swept NC Central in a Wednesday exhibition.

The Duke volleyball team looked as good as it could in Wednesday’s exhibition against NC Central, sweeping the Eagles in three sets as the Blue Devils tune up for the 2024 season.

The game, dubbed ‘The Battle of Bull City’ on social media since both schools are in Durham, took place in NC Central’s home arena, McDouald-McLendon Arena.

The Blue Devils got off to a 9-2 start in 2023, winning nine consecutive matches over schools like Creighton, Michigan, Michigan State, and West Virginia. They finished the year 19-10 after 10 wins in conference play, their first double-digit ACC slate since 2018.

The Blue Devils need to replace outside hitter Gracie Johnson, who co-led the team with 356 kills last season, and setter Emma Worthington’s team-leading 1,013 assists after both players exhausted their eligibility. Outside hitter Kerry Keefe (the other Blue Devil with 356 kills in 2023) returns for her junior season, though, and senior Rachel Richardson (157 kills in 2023) should be a major factor again.

The Blue Devils face Colgate on August 30 for the first official match of the year, the first of three consecutive days with a game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke battles Kansas on August 31 before playing South Carolina on September 1.

Video shows Duke football player doing ‘Bull City’ gesture in EA Sports College Football 25

A Duke fan shared a clip of a Blue Devils football player making the team’s iconic ‘Bull City’ hand gesture in EA Sports College Football 25.

EA Sports really put all the details a college football fan can think of in College Football 25.

Fans who preordered the Deluxe Edition can access the game a few days early, so the content was already hitting social media on Monday night. The game features the expanded 12-team playoff, ratings for individual players, and all the bells and whistles.

One Duke fan posted about getting to play as the Blue Devils on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter) and found an iconic detail.

In the brief clip shared to social media, Duke cornerback Joshua Pickett ran up to the camera and put his fists together with his thumbs sticking out on either side, forming the Blue Devils’ ‘Bull City’ gesture.

EA Sports already confirmed that the hand gesture, along with dozens of other specific celebrations for other fanbases, would be in the game earlier in the summer, but actually seeing it makes it so much more real.

Wallace Wade Stadium already appeared in the College Football 25 trailer for Duke fans’ first sneak peek, and the team posted a video revealing all of their uniform combinations in the game.

EA Sports confirms Duke fans will make ‘Bull City’ hand gesture in College Football 25

EA Sports released a list of the school-specific gestures in EA Sports College Football 25 on Wednesday and ‘Bull City’ will feature.

EA Sports reiterated over and over again that College Football 25 will be as authentic as possible, and they got one step closer on Wednesday.

During the game’s ‘Sights and Sounds Deep Dive’ release on Wednesday, the studio said the game will include dozens of school-specific hand gestures in the crowd to make the experience immersive. Among the list was Duke’s ‘Bull City’ gesture, a motion when Blue Devils fans stick two fists together with thumbs out to resemble bull horns.

The Duke football program already got a taste of its inclusion in the long-awaited game when the first trailer showed a split-second clip of Wallace Wade Stadium. The same Wednesday release also said that the developers recorded crowd noise from more than 40 different schools, including Duke.

The game will be released on July 19. Check out Duke Wire’s predictions for the five highest-rated players in the game here.