One of the most storied franchises in college basketball, it comes as no surprise to anyone when year after year, the Duke Blue Devils blaze down the road to the Final Four, leaving other college sporting dynasties in their dust.
Playing from Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, NC, Duke is the fourth-winningest college basketball team all time, averaging 30 wins a season. They have won 3 NCAA titles 1991, 1992, 2001 and been to the Final Four 14 times. At 110 weeks, They are second behind only UCLA in total weeks ranked as number 1 team in the nation. And they're noted rivalry with the North Carolina Tar Heels Michael Jordan's alma matter is one of the best in college sports.
Mike Krzyzewski helms the Blue Devils, in his 27th year as head coach of the basketball empire. A Hall of Fame coach and 12 time National Coach of the year, he is affectionately called "Coach K" by, well, just about everybody. Now also the coach of the US national team, Coach K has consistently taken teams year after year, no matter how much talent has gone on to play professionally, to the promised land. And go pro they do, with 71 players drafted from Duke to play in the NBA.
Duke alumni include ACC player of the year and NBA all-star center Elton Brand of the Cleveland Cavaliers, NBA all-star power forward Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz, and ACC player of the year Shane Battier of the Houston Rockets.
This year, the Blue Devils intangible could be said to be the "Y-factor", as they went with a younger squad. But it's a young team with talent in spades. Sophomore Greg Paulus spurned an opportunity to quarter-back at Notredame to be Duke's point guard. Sophomore Josh McRoberts is expected to be a formidable inside presence at 6'10". And Freshman shooting guard Jon Scheyer's resume includes a high school point scoring spurt of 21 points in 90 seconds, on a night where he scored 51 points. And along with Junior guard DeMarcus Nelson, Paulus and McRoberts make up the team captains, the first sophomores to be named as team captains in the 102 year history of Duke's basketball program.
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