The 2024–25 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented

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during the

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. The Blue Devils were led by third-year head coach

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and featured the first Duke roster with no regular rotation players from the

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era. The Blue Devils played their home games at

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, as members of the

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(ACC). The Blue Devils started the season ranked seventh and comfortably defeated

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and

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to open the season. They lost to nineteenth-ranked

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in the

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before holding Wofford to 35 points in a fifty one-point victory. The Kentucky defeat saw them fall to number twelve in the rankings, where they defeated seventeenth-ranked

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69–55. They then lost to top-ranked

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75–72 in the Vegas Showdown. They rose to ninth for the

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where they defeated second-ranked Auburn. This victory was the second in what would be a sixteen-game winning streak for the Blue Devils. They rose from eleventh in the rankings at the start, to second in the rankings over the sixteen wins. Twelve of the wins were conference wins and all the victories were by double-digits except a 63–56 victory over Wake Forest on January 25. The streak was broken by a 77–71 loss at Clemson on February 8. That loss would be the Blue Devils' only ACC loss of the season as they won the rest of their regular season games. They finished the season on an eight-game winning streak, with all their wins coming by at least thirteen points. Their regular season included a two game sweep of

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. Duke did not play a ranked opponent during the ACC regular season, and finished the regular sesaon ranked first in the polls. The Blue Devils finished the

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28–3 and 19–1 in ACC play to finish as regular season champions for the twenty-first time. As the first seed in the 2025 ACC tournament earned a bye into Quarterfinals where they defeated eighth seed

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78–70. In the Semifinals they faced fifth-seed North Carolina for a third time this season. The Blue Devils won the closest rivalry game of the season 74–71. In the Final, they defeated second seed and thirteenth-ranked

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73–62 to win their twenty-second ACC tournament title. The Blue Devils received the ACC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. They were an one-seed in the East region. They defeated sixteen-seed Mount St. Mary's 93–49 in the First Round, nine-seed Baylor 89–66 in the Second Round, and won a rematch with four-seed and twenty first-ranked Arizona 100–93 in the Sweet Sixteen. They faced two-seed and seventh-ranked

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in the Elite Eight and prevailed 85–65 to advance to the Final Four. There they were bested by the Midwest region top seed and second-ranked

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70–67. The finished the season with a 35–4 overall record.

Previous season

The Blue Devils finished the 2023–24 season 27–9 and 15–5 in ACC play to finish in second place. As the second seed in the ACC tournament, they earned a bye to the quarterfinals where they were upset by in-state rival and tenth seed

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. They received an at-large bid to the

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where they were the fourth seed in the South Region. They faced

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in the first round. They won this matchup to move onto the round of 32, where they routed 12th seed

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. Duke then faced the number one seed,

, whom they defeated 54–51, advancing to the Elite Eight for the first time under head coach Jon Scheyer. There they were upset by 11th-seeded and ACC rival

to end their season.

Offseason

Departures

Incoming transfers

Recruiting class

2024 recruiting class

2024 overall class rankings

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from the class of 2026 to 2025 in committing. 2025 overall class rankings

Roster

Lucas' final game as Duke assistant coach was the March 8, 2025 regular-season finale against North Carolina. Lucas then left the program to become the head men's basketball coach at the University of Miami.

Depth chart

Schedule and results

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Rankings

References

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