Duke Blue Devils men's basketball

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Duke Blue Devils
University	Duke University
Conference	ACC
Location	Durham, NC
Head Coach	Mike Krzyzewski (27th year)
Arena	Cameron Indoor Stadium (Capacity: 9,314)
Nickname	Blue Devils
Colors	Royal Blue and White
NCAA Tournament Champions
1991, 1992, 2001
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004
Conference Tournament Champions
1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
Conference Regular Season Champions
1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006

The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball program is widely renowned in American college sports, especially in conjunction with its heated rivalry with North Carolina. The fourth-winningest men's basketball program of all-time, the team from Duke University has had great success over the past 27 years under coach Mike Krzyzewski, nicknamed "Coach K".

Duke has won three NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships and appeared in 14 Final Fours. Eleven players have been named the National Player of the Year, while 71 players have been drafted in the NBA Draft. Additionally, Duke has had 55 All-Americans and 14 Academic All-Americans. Duke is tied with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the most Atlantic Coast Conference championships, with 16 (1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006). Duke has also won the regular season 18 times (1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006).^[1] Duke is second, behind only UCLA, in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 110 weeks.^[2] 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.^[3]

Contents 1 Coaches 2 Players 3 History 3.1 Coach K era 3.2 Results By Season (1980-2007) 3.3 NCAA Tournament seeding history 3.4 Championships 4 Stadium Information 5 Notes 6 External Links

[edit] Coaches

Former coaches that coached at least five years include: Wilbur Wade Card (1906-12) - first coach of program; Eddie Cameron (1929-42) - namesake of Cameron Indoor Stadium; Gerry Gerald (1943-50); Harold Bradley (1951-59) - coached legend Dick Groat; Vic Bubas (1960-69) - led team to two Final Four’s and a runner-up award, coached Duke greats Art Heyman, Jeff Mullins and Bob Verga; Bill Foster (1975-80) – took team to National Championship game and an Elite Eight, coached Jim Spanarkel and Mike Gminski.

National Coach of the Year honors for Duke Coaches include Bill Foster (1978) and Mike Krzyzewski (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2000). ACC Coach of the Year honors include Harold Bradley (1959), Bill Foster (1978), Vic Bubas (1963, 1964, 1966), and Mike Krzyzewski (1984, 1986, 1997, 1999, 2000).

[edit] Players

National players of the year honors include Art Heyman (1963), Johnny Dawkins (1986), Danny Ferry (1989), Christian Laettner (1992), Elton Brand (1999), Shane Battier (2001), Jason Williams (2001, 2002), and J.J. Redick (2006).

ACC players of the year include Art Heyman (1963), Jeff Mullins (1964), Steve Vacendak (1966), Mike Gminski (1979), Danny Ferry (1988, 1989), Christian Laettner (1992), Grant Hill (1994), Elton Brand (1999), Shane Battier (2001), and J.J. Redick (2005, 2006). ACC rookies of the year include Jim Spanarkel (1976), Mike Gminski (1977), Gene Banks (1978), and Chris Duhon (2001).

[edit] History

Retired basketball jerseys[4]
Number	Player	Year
10	Dick Groat	1952
43	Mike Gminski	1980
24	Johnny Dawkins	1986
35	Danny Ferry	1989
25	Art Heyman	1990
32	Christian Laettner	1992
11	Bobby Hurley	1993
33	Grant Hill	1994
44	Jeff Mullins	1994
31	Shane Battier	2001
22	Jason Williams	2003
23	Shelden Williams	2007
4	J.J. Redick	2007

adapted from Duke University Archives^[5]
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 University of North Carolina 19-18 in the first match-up between the two schools.

Bill 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 Southern Conference to become a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. The Duke team under Vic Bubas made its first appearance in the Final Four in 1963, losing 74-71 to Loyola in the semifinal. The next year, Bubas' team reached the national title game, losing to the Bruins of UCLA, who claimed 10 titles in the next 12 years.

The basketball program got victory number 1000 in 1974, making Duke the eighth school in NCAA history to reach that figure. In a stunning 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 Kentucky. Mike Giminski ('80) and Jim Spanarkel ('79) ran the floor.

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[edit] Coach K era

Coach K has had unprecedented success since obtaining the coaching reign in 1981. His leadership has propelled the Duke Men’s Basketball team into the national spotlight and proved vital as he was selected to coach the United States national basketball team, which includes the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Some of his Duke teams’ accomplishments include: the only team to win three national championships since the NCAA Tournament field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985; ten Final Fours in the last 20 years as well as five in a row from 1988 to 1992; ACC Tournament Championships five years in a row from 1999 to 2003; twenty 20-win seasons in the past 22 years; number 1 rankings in 13 of the past 20 seasons; nine straight Sweet 16 appearances; seven players named Naismith College Player of the Year in the last 20 years; eight National Defensive Players of the Year; twenty AP All-Americans.

Coach K's teams made the Final Four in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, and 2004. For a while, some commentators took to calling it "The Duke Invitational." Duke upset the heavily favored UNLV Running Rebels 79-77 in the Final Four in 1991, a rematch of the 1990 final. The team, led by Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, 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 what many consider the greatest college basketball game ever. In the Elite Eight, Duke met the Rick Pitino-led Kentucky Wildcats. It appeared Kentucky had sealed the win 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 time-out, Duke's Grant Hill threw a full-court pass to Christian Laettner. Laettner took a dribble and nailed a turn-around jumper at the buzzer to send Duke into the Final Four with a 104-103 victory. To Duke faithfuls, this play will forever be known as "The Shot". The shot was named the most memorable basketball shot of all-time (including the NBA, college, and high school) by the Best Damn Sports Show Period in 2007^[6] and the fifth most unforgettable sports moment of all-time across all sports in 2006.^[7] Duke went on to defeat the Michigan Wolverines 71-51 to claim its second NCAA Championship. Duke defeated Arizona 82-72 to win its third NCAA Championship in 2001. Coach K was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame later that year. In 2003, Duke won the ACC tournament for an unprecedented fifth straight year (1999-2003).

Former Duke stars such as Alaa Abdelnaby, Johnny Dawkins, Cherokee Parks, Bobby Hurley, Antonio Lang, Roshown McLeod, William Avery, Trajan Langdon, Grant Hill, Danny Ferry, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Carlos Boozer, Chris Duhon, Mike Dunleavy, Dahntay Jones, Daniel Ewing, J.J. Redick, Shelden Williams, Corey Maggette, Luol Deng and Jason Williams have gone on to play in the NBA after Coach K’s tutelage. Many of Coach K's assistants, such as Mike Brey, Tommy Amaker, Quin Snyder, and Jeff Capel, have become head basketball coaches at major universities.

[edit] Results By Season (1980-2007)

[edit] NCAA Tournament seeding history

The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition.

Years →	'79	'80	'81	'82	'83	'84	'85	'86	'87	'88	'89	'90	'91	'92	'93	'94	'95	'96	'97	'98	'99	'00	'01	'02	'03	'04	'05	'06	'07
Seeds →	2	4	-	-	-	3	3	1	5	2	2	3	2	1	3	2	-	8	2	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	1	1	6

[edit] Championships

1991 NCAA Tournament Results

Round	Opponent	Score
Round #1	# 15 Northeast Louisiana	102-73
Round #2	# 7 Iowa	85-70
Sweet 16	# 11 Connecticut	81-67
Elite 8	# 4 St. Johns	78-61
Final 4	# 1 UNLV	79-77
Championship	# 3 Kansas	72-65

1992 NCAA Tournament Results

Round	Opponent	Score
Round #1	# 16 Campbell	82-56
Round #2	# 9 Iowa	75-62
Sweet 16	# 4 Seton Hall	81-69
Elite 8	# 2 Kentucky	104-103
Final 4	# 2 Indiana	81-78
Championship	# 6 Michigan	71-51

2001 NCAA Tournament Results

Round	Opponent	Score
Round #1	# 16 Monmouth	95-52
Round #2	# 9 Missouri	94-81
Sweet 16	# 4 UCLA	76-63
Elite 8	# 6 USC	79-69
Final 4	# 3 Maryland	95-84
Championship	# 2 Arizona	82-72

[edit] Stadium Information

Main article: Cameron Indoor Stadium

The Blue Devils practice and play in Cameron Indoor Stadium, a 9,314-seat-capacity stadium built in 1940. Supposedly, the plans for the stadium were drawn up in 1935 by basketball coach Eddie Cameron and football coach Wallace Wade. The arena was dedicated 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 University of Pennsylvania. Originally called Duke Indoor Stadium, it was renamed for Cameron on January 22, 1972.^[8]

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.

Duke's men's basketball teams have had a decided home-court advantage for many years, thanks to the diehard students affectionally known as the Cameron Crazies as well as other other fans like Crazy Towel Guy. The hardwood floor has been dedicated and renamed Coach K Court in recognition of head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Sports Illustrated ranked it in the world's fourth best sporting venue in 1999, and USA Today referred to it as "the toughest road game in the nation".^[9]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External Links

• Official Site - Official Site
• Statistical Database- Duke Blue Devils Basketball Statistical Database

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