The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents

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and competes in the

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(ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is currently coached by Jon Scheyer. Duke has won five national championships (tied with

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for fifth all-time behind

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and UConn), and appeared in 11 national championship games (third all-time) and 18 Final Fours (third all-time). Duke has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been named the National Player of the Year, and 71 players have been selected in the

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. Additionally, Duke has had 36 players named All-Americans (60 total selections) and 14 players named Academic All-Americans. Duke has been the Atlantic Coast Conference Champions a record 23 times, and also lays claim to 21 ACC regular season titles. Prior to joining the ACC, Duke won the

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championships five times. Duke has also finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP poll eight times and is the all-time leader in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 145 weeks. Additionally, the Blue Devils have the third longest streak in the AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007, trailing only Kansas' 231 consecutive polls from 2009 to 2021, and UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966 to 1980.

Team history

Early years (1906–1953)

In 1906, Wilbur Wade Card, Trinity College's Athletic Director and a member of the Class of 1900, introduced the game of basketball to Trinity. The January 30 issue of The Trinity Chronicle headlined the new sport on its front page. Trinity's first game ended in a loss to Wake Forest, 24–10. The game was played in the Angier B. Duke Gymnasium, later known as The Ark. The Trinity team won its first title in 1920, the state championship, by beating the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State) 25 to 24. Earlier in the season they had beaten the

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19–18 in the first match-up between the two schools. Trinity college then became Duke University. Billy Werber, Class of 1930, became Duke's first All-American in basketball. The Gothic-style West Campus opened that year, with a new gym, later to be named for Coach Card. The Indoor Stadium opened in 1940. Initially it was referred to as an "Addition" to the gymnasium. Part of its cost was paid for with the proceeds from the Duke football team's appearance in the 1938 Rose Bowl. In 1972 it would be named for Eddie Cameron, head coach from 1929 to 1942. In 1952, Dick Groat became the first Duke player to be named National Player of the Year. Duke left the

to become a charter member of the

in 1953. The Duke team under Vic Bubas made its first appearance in the

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1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

, losing 94–75 to Loyola Chicago in the semifinal. The next year, Bubas' team reached the national title game, losing to the Bruins of UCLA, which claimed the first of that program's 10 titles in the next 12 years. Bob Verga was Duke's star player in 1967.

Bill Foster (1974–1980)

The basketball program won its 1000th game in 1974, making Duke only the eighth school in

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history to reach that figure. In a turnaround, Coach Bill Foster's 1978 Blue Devils, who had gone 2–10 in the ACC the previous year, won the conference tournament and went on to the NCAA championship game, where they fell to

. Gene Banks,

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('80) and Jim Spanarkel ('79) ran the floor.

Mike Krzyzewski (1980–2022)

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was at Duke from 1980 to 2022. :*5 National Championships – 2nd most all time, the last being in 2015 :*13 Final Fours as well as five in a row from 1988 to 1992 :*17 Elite Eights :*26 Sweet Sixteens and nine straight from 1998–2006 :*36 NCAA tournament berths :*101 NCAA tournament wins (most ever) :*14 No. 1 seeds :*28 conference titles (13 regular season, 15 tournament), 10 of the 13 ACC Tournament Titles from 1998–99 through 2010–11 :*15 30-win seasons :*36 20-win seasons :*Number 1 AP ranking in 17 of the past 28 seasons :*8

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Awards :*9 National Defensive Players of the Year Awards :*26 AP

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ns :*14 consensus first team All-Americans :*11 NBA top-10 picks: T-1st :*23 NBA Draft first round picks :*1,202 career wins Krzyzewski's teams made the Final Four in 1986, 1988,

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1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

and

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

1986 Duke v Kansas - Johnny Dawkins drive against Cedric Hunter

In Krzyzewski's first season, the Blue Devils would finish the season with a 17–13 overall record and 6–8 record in ACC play. The team would later play in the NIT tournament advancing to the quarterfinals. Despite having a good record the previous season, the Blue Devils would struggle during the next two seasons finishing with 10 wins in 1982 and 11 wins in 1983. The 1984 team, led by Tommy Amaker & Johnny Dawkins, would bounce back in strong fashion finishing 24–10 and was ranked the No.14 in the AP and Coaches poll, but lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament to the Washington Huskies (having earned a first-round bye). In 1985 Duke defeated Pepperdine in the first round of the NCAA tournament, for Krzyzewski's first tournament win, but lost to Boston College in the second round 74–73. The next season the Blue Devils made their first

under Krzyzewski. They beat Kansas to advance to the title game against Louisville, where they ultimately lost 72–69. Duke upset the heavily favored UNLV Runnin' Rebels 79–77 in the Final Four in 1991, a rematch of the 1990 final in which Duke lost by 30 points. The team, led by Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley,

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, and Thomas Hill, went on to defeat Kansas 72–65 to win the university's first NCAA Championship. Ranked #1 all season and favored to repeat as national champions in 1992, Duke took part in a

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"acclaimed by many sthe greatest college basketball game ever played," according to

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. In the Elite Eight, Duke met the

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-led Kentucky Wildcats. It appeared Kentucky had sealed the win in overtime when guard Sean Woods hit a running shot off the glass in the lane to put Kentucky up by one with 2.1 seconds left on the clock. After a timeout, Duke's Grant Hill threw a full-court pass to Christian Laettner. Laettner took one dribble and nailed a turn-around jumper at the buzzer to send Duke into the Final Four with a 104–103 victory (The Shot). Duke went on to defeat sixth-seeded

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, led by the Fab Five as freshmen starters including

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and Juwan Howard, 71–51 to repeat as national champions. Following the successful repeat, Laettner was the only collegiate player to be chosen for the Dream Team that won Olympic gold in Barcelona, while Krzyzewski was an assistant coach under Chuck Daly of the

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in a precursor to his becoming Team USA coach in 2006 and coaching them to two gold medals. They would later meet Kentucky for another classic regional final game, but blow a 17-point second half lead in losing to the Wildcats. The Blue Devils would lose the 1994 title game to Arkansas and their "Forty Minutes of Hell" defense. The next two seasons would see them fall to just 31–31, though they made the 1996 tournament with an 18–12 record, 8–8 in conference play. They would also fall in the 1999 title game, this time to Jim Calhoun and the UConn Huskies. Duke defeated Arizona 82–72 to win its third NCAA Championship in 2001, becoming one of a handful of teams in NCAA Tournament history to defeat all of their tournament opponents by double digits. Krzyzewski was inducted into the

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later that year. On April 5, 2010, Duke Men's Basketball won their fourth NCAA Championship by defeating Butler 61–59. On April 6, 2015, Duke's Men's Basketball won their fifth NCAA Championship by defeating Wisconsin 68–63. Coach K announced that the 2021–22 season would be his last coaching for Duke. Making it to the Final Four one last time, Duke fell just short of the championship game losing to the

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81–77 in the first ever meeting between the rivals in the NCAA Tournament.

Jon Scheyer (2022–present)

On June 2, 2021, Scheyer was named as the next head coach at Duke following Krzyzewski's retirement at the end of the 2021-22 season. On March 11, 2023, he became the first person to win an ACC tournament title as both a coach and a player. Former Duke stars such as Jim Spanarkel, Gene Banks, Alaa Abdelnaby, Johnny Dawkins, Cherokee Parks, Bobby Hurley, Antonio Lang, Roshown McLeod, William Avery, Trajan Langdon,

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, Christian Laettner, Kenny Dennard, Brian Davis, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Carlos Boozer, Chris Duhon,

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, Dahntay Jones, Daniel Ewing, JJ Redick, Shavlik Randolph, Shelden Williams, Corey Maggette,

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, Josh McRoberts, Gerald Henderson, Andre Dawkins, Austin Rivers, Lance Thomas, Kyle Singler, Miles Plumlee,

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, Bob Verga, Quinn Cook, Nolan Smith, Jason Williams, Jabari Parker, Rodney Hood, Seth Curry, Kyrie Irving, Matt Jones, Amile Jefferson,

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, Tyus Jones, Justise Winslow, Grayson Allen,

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, Luke Kennard, Jayson Tatum, Harry Giles, Frank Jackson, Gary Trent Jr., Trevon Duval,

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, Wendell Carter Jr., RJ Barrett,

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, Cam Reddish, Zion Williamson, Tre Jones, Vernon Carey Jr., Cassius Stanley, Jalen Johnson, Paolo Banchero, Mark Williams, Wendell Moore Jr., Trevor Keels, AJ Griffin and Dereck Lively II have gone on to play in the NBA. Many of Krzyzewski's assistants and former players, such as Tommy Amaker ( Seton Hall,

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and

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), Bob Bender (

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and

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), Chuck Swenson at William & Mary,

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(

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and Notre Dame), Jeff Capel ( VCU,

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and

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), Chris Collins ( Northwestern), Johnny Dawkins ( Stanford, UCF),

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(

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), Steve Wojciechowski ( Marquette), and JJ Redick (

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) have become head basketball coaches at major universities and the NBA, while Pete Gaudet is now the head coach of the India women's national basketball team.

Team captains

* Christian Laettner * Bobby Hurley *

* Greg Newton * Shane Battier * Carlos Boozer *

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* JJ Redick * Shelden Williams * Rodney Hood * Josh Hairston * Tyler Thornton * Quinn Cook * Amile Jefferson * Grayson Allen * Matt Jones * Javin DeLaurier *

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* Tre Jones * Joey Baker * Wendell Moore Jr. * Jeremy Roach * Tyrese Proctor

Results by season (1980–2024)

NCAA tournament seeding history

''The

began seeding the tournament with the 1978 edition.''

National championships

Final Four history

Complete NCAA tournament results

The Blue Devils have appeared in the NCAA tournament 47 times. Their combined record is 130–42.

NIT results

The Blue Devils have appeared in the

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(NIT) five times. Their combined record is 5–6.

Key statistics

As of the 2017–18 season, the Blue Devils' program record is as follows. Duke has been ranked as the #1 team in the nation 235 weeks in their history. Duke had not lost a non-conference game at Cameron from 2000 until 2019, when SFASU beat Duke in overtime (85–83). Duke maintains a tradition of hosting the previous season's Division II national champion in an exhibition game each November.

Cameron Indoor Stadium

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was completed on January 6, 1940, having cost $400,000. At the time, it was the largest gymnasium in the country south of the Palestra at the

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. Originally called Duke Indoor Stadium, it was renamed for Coach Cameron on January 22, 1972. The building originally included seating for 8,800, though standing room was sufficient to ensure that 12,000 could fit in on a particularly busy day. Then, as now, Duke students were allowed a large chunk of the seats, including those directly alongside the court. Renovations in 1987–1988 removed the standing room areas and added seats, bringing capacity to 9,314.

Cameron Crazies

Duke's men's basketball teams have had a decided home-court advantage for many years, thanks to the diehard students known as the Cameron Crazies. The hardwood floor has been dedicated and renamed ''Coach K Court'' in honor of head coach

, and the tent city outside Cameron where students camp out before big games is known as Krzyzewskiville. In 1999, ''

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'' ranked Cameron the fourth best venue in all of professional and college sports, and ''

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'' referred to it as "the toughest road game in the nation".

Player awards

Retired numbers

National Players of the Year

* Dick Groat ''Helms, UPI'' *

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''AP, UPI, U.S. Basketball Writers'' * Johnny Dawkins ''Naismith'' *

''Naismith, UPI, U.S. Basketball Writers'' * Christian Laettner ''AP, Basketball Times, NABC, Naismith, Rupp, U.S. Basketball Writers, Wooden'' * Elton Brand ''AP, NABC, Naismith, Rupp, U.S. Basketball Writers, Wooden, Sporting News'' * Shane Battier ''AP, Basketball Times, Naismith, Rupp, U.S. Basketball Writers, Wooden, Sporting News'' * Jay Williams ''AP, Basketball Times, NABC (2), Naismith, Rupp, U.S. Basketball Writers, Wooden, Sporting News'' * JJ Redick ''AP, Basketball Times, NABC, Naismith, Rupp (2), U.S. Basketball Writers, Wooden, Sporting News'' *

, ''NABC'' * RJ Barrett, ''Wooden'', ''USA Today'' * Zion Williamson ''AP, NABC, Naismith, U.S. Basketball Writers, Wooden, Sporting News'' * Cooper Flagg ''U.S. Basketball Writers, NABC''

ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year

(1963) * Jeff Mullins (1964) * Steve Vacendak (1966) *

(1979) *

(1988, 1989) * Christian Laettner (1992) *

(1994) * Elton Brand (1999) * Chris Carrawell (2000) * Shane Battier (2001) * JJ Redick (2005, 2006) * Nolan Smith (2011) *

(2015) *

(2018) * Zion Williamson (2019) * Tre Jones (2020) * Cooper Flagg (2025)

ACC
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s of the Year

* Jim Spanarkel (1976) *

(1977) * Gene Banks (1978) * Chris Duhon (2001) * Kyle Singler (2008) * Austin Rivers (2012) * Jabari Parker (2014) *

(2015) *

(2016) *

(2018) * Zion Williamson (2019) * Vernon Carey Jr. (2020) * Paolo Banchero (2022) * Kyle Filipowski (2023) * Cooper Flagg (2025)

National Defensive Player of the Year

* Tommy Amaker (1987) * Billy King (1988) *

(1993) * Steve Wojciechowski (1998) * Shane Battier (1999, 2000, 2001) * Shelden Williams (2005, 2006)

ACC Defensive Player of the Year

''(since 2005)'' * Shelden Williams (2005, 2006) * DeMarcus Nelson (2008) * Tre Jones (2020) * Mark Williams (2022)

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

(2001) *

(2018)

McDonald's All-Americans

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*1977 – Gene Banks *1978 – Vince Taylor *1982 – Johnny Dawkins *1983 – Tommy Amaker &

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*1985 –

*1986 – Alaa Abdelnaby & Phil Henderson *1988 – Christian Laettner & Crawford Palmer *1989 – Bobby Hurley & Billy McCaffrey *1990 –

*1991 – Cherokee Parks *1992 – Chris Collins *1993 – Joey Beard *1994 – Trajan Langdon, Ricky Price & Steve Wojciechowski *1995 – Taymon Domzalski *1996 –

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*1997 – Elton Brand, Shane Battier & Chris Burgess *1998 – Corey Maggette *1999 – Carlos Boozer,

, Casey Sanders & Jay Williams (basketball) *2000 – Chris Duhon *2001 – Daniel Ewing *2002 – Sean Dockery, JJ Redick, Shavlik Randolph & Michael Thompson *2003 –

*2004 – DeMarcus Nelson *2005 – Eric Boateng, Greg Paulus & Josh McRoberts *2006 – Gerald Henderson Jr., Jon Scheyer & Lance Thomas *2007 – Taylor King, Kyle Singler & Nolan Smith *2008 – Elliot Williams *2009 – Ryan Kelly &

*2010 – Kyrie Irving *2011 – Quinn Cook,

& Austin Rivers *2012 – Amile Jefferson & Rasheed Sulaimon *2013 – Matt Jones & Jabari Parker *2014 – Grayson Allen, Tyus Jones,

& Justise Winslow *2015 –

, Chase Jeter & Luke Kennard *2016 –

, Frank Jackson & Jayson Tatum *2017 – Wendell Carter Jr., Trevon Duval & Gary Trent Jr. *2018 – RJ Barrett, Tre Jones, Cam Reddish & Zion Williamson *2019 – Vernon Carey Jr.,

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& Wendell Moore Jr. *2020 – Jeremy Roach, DJ Steward, Mark Williams *2021 – Paolo Banchero & AJ Griffin *2022 – Dereck Lively II, Mark Mitchell & Dariq Whitehead *2023 – Jared McCain & Sean Stewart *2024 – Isaiah Evans & Cooper Flagg

Current Blue Devils in the NBA & International leagues

As of October 7, 2024, these former Blue Devils players were in the NBA: * Kyrie Irving (2011) – Dallas Mavericks * Seth Curry (2013) – Charlotte Hornets *

(2013) – Phoenix Suns * Tyus Jones (2015) – Phoenix Suns *

(2016) – Toronto Raptors * Luke Kennard (2017) – Memphis Grizzlies * Jayson Tatum (2017) – Boston Celtics * Grayson Allen (2018) – Phoenix Suns *

(2018) – Memphis Grizzlies * Wendell Carter Jr. (2018) – Orlando Magic * Gary Trent Jr. (2018) – Milwaukee Bucks * RJ Barrett (2019) – Toronto Raptors * Cam Reddish (2019) – Free Agent * Zion Williamson (2019) – New Orleans Pelicans *

(2019) – Free Agent * Tre Jones (2020) – Chicago Bulls * Jalen Johnson (2021) – Atlanta Hawks * Paolo Banchero (2022) – Orlando Magic * Mark Williams (2022) – Charlotte Hornets * Wendell Moore Jr. (2022) – Charlotte Hornets * Dereck Lively II (2023) – Dallas Mavericks * Dariq Whitehead (2023) – Brooklyn Nets * Jared McCain (2024) – Philadelphia 76ers * Kyle Filipowski (2024) – Utah Jazz

Former Blue Devils in International leagues

* Javin DeLaurier – Promitheas Patras B.C. * Trevon Duval – Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor * Harry Giles III - Shanxi Loongs * Jacob Grandison – Vilpas Vikings * Jordan Goldwire – Lobos Plateados de la BUAP *

– South East Melbourne Phoenix * Frank Jackson –

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* Jabari Parker –

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* Justin Robinson – Elitzur Netanya B.C. * Cassius Stanley – Hapoel Afula B.C. * Rasheed Sulaimon – KK Budućnost * Derryck Thornton – Leicester Riders * Jordan Tucker – Chorale Roanne Basket *

– Melbourne United

Rivalries

The Duke–North Carolina rivalry is often ranked among the top rivalries in both college basketball and all North American sports. Entering the 2023 - 2024 season, North Carolina leads the rivalry, winning 141 games to Duke's 115. The Duke Blue Devils face the

twice each year during ACC play, with thousands of Duke undergraduate students participating in an annual tradition of camping out in Krzyzewskiville, a lawn in front of

, for months to line up for admission into the rivalry game. The two teams always face each other for their last game of the regular season, with the home team hosting their Senior Night. Some years, the two teams meet for a third game in the ACC tournament. The teams have met twice in post-season tournament play. In 2022, the two schools met in the Final Four to face each other in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. In that game, the Tar Heels defeated the Blue Devils 81–77. In 1971 the two rivals met in the semi-finals of the NIT, a game also won by North Carolina by a score of 73 - 69. Duke also has rivalries with NC State and Wake Forest, and together with UNC, the 4 schools form Tobacco Road. Duke and North Carolina have combined for 11 national championships, with North Carolina leading Duke 6–5. The intensity of the rivalry is augmented by the proximity of the two universities, located only ten miles apart along U.S. Highway 15–501 (also known as Tobacco Road) or eight miles apart in straight-line distance in the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill. In addition, Duke is a private university whereas North Carolina is a public school; the vastly different funding structures and cultures between the two further contribute to the intensity of the rivalry. Former ''

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'' editor and author (and North Carolina graduate) Will Blythe argues that the rivalry's passion can be attributed greatly to class and culture in the South. Carolina-Duke basketball 2006 2

The rivalry has been the subject of various books and articles, including ''To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever'' by Blythe and ''Blue Blood'' by Art Chansky. Further illustrating the intensity of the rivalry, U.S. Representative Brad Miller, a die-hard Carolina fan, told an

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writer in 2012, "I have said very publicly that if Duke was playing against the

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, then I'd have to pull for the Taliban." However, also due to the close proximity of the two schools, there is respect and collaboration within the rivalry. Inspired by the men's basketball teams, twenty-four students from the two schools got together from January 14–16, 2006 in order to attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous game of basketball ever recorded. The game set a new world record at 57 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds with Duke winning the game 3699–3444. All $60,000 raised from the marathon benefited the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, an organization which helps children with life-threatening illnesses develop successful life skills through basketball. Beyond athletics, the school papers have also engaged in the rivalry. As a tradition, one day prior to a Duke-North Carolina basketball game, '' The Chronicle'', Duke's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title ''The Daily Tar Hole''. Contained within are

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'' and the

. ''The Daily Tar Heel'' typically publishes former columnist Ian Williams' "Insider's guide to hating Duke" for the two basketball match-ups each year. There is a longstanding agreement that if Duke wins the first matchup, ''The Daily Tar Heel''s masthead is printed in Duke blue, and if North Carolina wins the first matchup, ''The Chronicle''s masthead is painted Carolina blue. The losing school's paper also has to put the other school's logo in a conspicuous location and claim that the winning school is "still the best." The

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and the

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basketball teams have also claimed rivalries against the Blue Devils, but Duke has long rejected both claims and considers North Carolina to be its only rival.Anya Sostek
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''The Chronicle'', January 11, 2000.

By the numbers

* All-time wins – 2,271 * All-time winning percentage – .712 * NCAA championships – 5 * NCAA tournament runner-up – 6 * All-Americans – 49 players * ACC regular season titles – 23 * ACC tournament titles – 23 (most all-time) * NCAA championship games – 11 * NCAA Final Fours – 18 * NCAA tournament appearances – 45 * NCAA tournament wins – 121 * No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament – 14 * Number of weeks ranked all-time in the top 25 of the AP Poll – 870 * Number of times defeating the No. 1 ranked team in the country – 10

Victories over AP No. 1 team

Duke has 10 victories over the AP number one ranked team. *January 27, 1958 – NR Duke 72, No. 1 West Virginia 68 *December 10, 1965 – No. 8 Duke 82, No. 1 UCLA 66 *December 11, 1965 – No. 8 Duke 94, No. 1 UCLA 75 *March 11, 1984 – No. 16 Duke 77, No. 1 North Carolina 75 *March 26, 1988 – No. 5 Duke 63, No. 1 Temple 53 *March 30, 1991 – No. 2 Duke 79, No. 1 UNLV 77 *December 5, 1992 – No. 4 Duke 79, No. 1 Michigan 68 *November 26, 1997 – No. 4 Duke 95, No. 1 Arizona 87 *February 22, 2014 – No. 5 Duke 66, No. 1 Syracuse 60 *November 26, 2021 – No. 5 Duke 84, No. 1 Gonzaga 81

Footnotes

References

External links

* {{Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball navbox Basketball teams established in 1905 1905 establishments in North Carolina