Men’s Basketball
Main article: Duke Blue Devils men's basketball See also: Cameron Indoor StadiumDuke University's men's basketball team is the fourth-winningest college basketball program of all-time, the team has had success over the past 25 years under coach Mike Krzyzewski (often simply called 'Coach K').
Duke has won four NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships—second most of any ACC team (the University of North Carolina has 5)and been in 15 Final Fours. Seventy-one players have been drafted in the NBA Draft. Additionally, Duke has had an Academic All-American on the team fourteen years. Duke has 19 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships (1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011), the most of any team in the ACC (the University of North Carolina has 17). Duke also has been the top seed in the ACC tournament 19 times (1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006,2010). Duke is second, behind only UCLA, in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 110 weeks. The Blue Devils have the second longest streak in the AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007. This streak only trails UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966-1980 as the longest of all-time. The streak ended with the AP poll released on February 12, 2007.
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