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The Duke team under Vic Bubas made its first appearance in the Final Four in 1963, losing 94–75 to Loyola Chicago in the semifinal. The next year , Bubas' team reached the national title game , losing to the Bruins of UCLA , which claimed the first of that program's 10 titles in the next 12 years.
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- Nov. 14, 1990 — Duke 87, Marquette 74
- Nov. 16, 1990 — Duke 100, Boston College 76
- Nov. 21, 1990 — Arkansas 98, Duke 88
- Nov. 23, 1990 — Duke 85, Notre Dame 77
- Nov. 26, 1990 — Duke 125, East Carolina 82
- Dec. 1, 1990 — Duke 111, Charlotte 94
- Dec. 5, 1990 — Georgetown 79, Duke 74
- Dec. 8, 1990 — Duke 75, Michigan 68
- Dec. 19, 1990 — Duke 103, Harvard 61
- Dec. 22, 1990 — Duke 90, Oklahoma 85
Duke forced Marquette into 30 turnovers while Christian Laettner scored 24 points with 12 rebounds. "I thought the story of the game was our defense," Mike Krzyzewski said, according to the AP.
The Blue Devils rattled off 20 consecutive points just minutes into the game as part of a 24-2 run. "Our team played very well, especially on defense," Mike Krzyzewski said, according to the AP. "The last 12 minutes of the first half, I don't think we can play any better than that."
In the same calendar year as Duke's Final Four win over Arkansas, the Razorbacks got revenge against the Blue Devils in the Dodge NIT as they turned an 11-point first-half deficit into a 10-point victory. "It was a little chaotic," Mike Krzyzewski, who was called for a rare technical foul in the game, said, according to Gannett News Service.
Duke forced Notre Dame into 15 first-half turnovers and 22 for the game as the Blue Devils built a 19-point lead, including a 10-1 run to end the first half. "Coming off an emotional loss, to be as positive and and to work as hard as we did is encouraging," Mike Krzyzewski said, according to The Record.
Twelve different Duke players scored as the Blue Devils routed East Carolina behind Grant Hill and Christian Laettner's 17-point nights with the former making 7-of-8 shots from the field. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski tested out a new starting lineup with Crawford Palmer, 6-9, alongside Laettner in order to give Hill more freedom offensively. "That's ...
Duke picked up its 60th consecutive win at Cameron Indoor Stadium in a high-scoring affair. Charlotte had cut Duke's 17-point lead to two, 85-83, with over eight minutes remaining as part of an 25-10 run, but Christian Laettner scored a career-high 37 points. In the second half, Mike Krzyzewski employed a box-and-one defense on Charlotte's Henry Wi...
Playing against Georgetown's imposing front line of Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo, Duke shot just 33 percent from the field, including 2-for-14 from deep, as the Hoyas managed 15-0 and 13-1 runs against the Blue Devils. "They just made you think about what you're doing while you take the ball to the basket," Mike Krzyzewski said, according to...
Duke won ugly in a game that featured 52 combined turnovers, including 27 from Michigan. Grant Hill had a team-high 19 points and eight rebounds against Michigan's zone defense, including 13 in the first half as the Blue Devils made two-thirds of their shots before halftime.
A year after Duke beat Harvard 130-54, the Blue Devils beat the Crimson by another big margin. Christian Laettner led the way with 24 points and 14 rebounds.
Duke, no stranger to building impressive home winning streaks, was also capable of ending some, too. The Blue Devils ended the Sooners' 51-game, home winning streak as they held Oklahoma's Brent Price to 11 points, just one weekend after he scored 56 in a game. "We never talked about the streak, just the fact that they're a helluva program," Mike K...
Mar 16, 2019 · When did Duke win its first national championship? Duke won its first national title in 1991 with a 72-65 victory over Kansas in the final. Three players on that team — Christian Laettner, Bobby ...
In the 2000–2005 seasons, Duke's head-to-head record was 796–45–3, a winning percentage of .945. [43] The team won national championships in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, and 2019 as well as 13 consecutive ACC championships from 1995 to 2008. [5] A number of successful professional golfers have gone through Duke's program.
Jun 16, 2006 · Up first in the Final Four was UNLV, the team which had stunned the Blue Devils with a 30-point loss the previous year. ... Duke had won the national championship and along the way captured the ...
Mar 21, 2019 · Since the team's first tournament appearance in 1955, Duke has won national titles five times. The first came in 1991 after the Blue Devils defeated Kansas 72–65 to finish with a 32–7 record.
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Mar 30, 2016 · The Blue Devils would go on to defeat Kansas in the 1991 championship game. It was Duke’s first national championship; it had previously lost the title game in 1964, 1978, 1986 and 1990.
