The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Duke University. The Blue Devils are widely renowned in American college sports, especially in conjunction with their heated rivalry with the North Carolina Tar Heels. As the fourth-winningest men's basketball program of all-time, the team from Duke University has had great success over the past 29 years under coach Mike Krzyzewski. Duke plays in the Atlantic Coast Conference in NCAA Division I.
Duke has won three NCAA 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. For the 2008–2009 NBA season, Duke has more former players on NBA rosters than any other school. Additionally, Duke has had 55 All-Americans and 14 Academic All-Americans. Duke has the second most Atlantic Coast Conference championships with 16 (1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000–2003, 2005, and 2006), trailing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by one. Duke has also won the regular season 18 times (1954, 1958, 1963–1966, 1979, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997 - 2001, 2004, 2006). Duke won Southern Conference championships five times (1938, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946). Duke finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP poll seven times (1986, 1992, 1999–2002, 2006). 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 trails only UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966-1980 as the longest of all time.
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