The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Duke University in the ACC of NCAA Division I. It is the 4th-winningest men's basketball program of all-time and is presently coached by Mike Krzyzewski.
Duke has won 4 NCAA championships (5th all-time) and appeared in 10 Championship Games (2nd all-time) and 15 Final Fours (3rd all-time), and has an NCAA-best .750 NCAA tournament winning percentage. 11
Duke players have been named the National Player of the Year. 71 players have been selected in the NBA Draft. In the 2008–2009 NBA season,
Duke had more former players on NBA rosters than any other school.
Duke has won the most ACC tournament championships with 19. The program also lays claim to 19 ACC regular season titles.
Duke has also finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP poll
seven times and is second, behind only
UCLA, in total weeks ranked as the #1 team in the nation by the AP with 121 weeks. The Blue Devils have the second longest streak in the AP Top 25 in
history. ESPN recently named
Duke the most prestigious NCAA Division I men's basketball program.Coach K has been at
Duke since 1980. His many accomplishments include: 4 National Championships (most since 1984–85), 11 Final Fours (most since 1984–85) as well as five in a row from 1988 to 1992,19 Sweet Sixteens (most since 1984–85) and 9
straight from 1998–2006, 26 NCAA tournament berths, 78 NCAA tournament wins (most ever), Number 1 AP ranking in 15 of the past 26 seasons.
