After 42 seasons, 13 Final Fours and five national championships, Mike Krzyzewski’s storied career as Duke men’s basketball coach has come to a close.
In Durham and in New Orleans, Duke fans are ready to witness history: the highest-stakes Duke-UNC game there's ever been.
Duke fans arrive in New Orleans for their last chance to see Coach K in action, and hoping they’ll cheer on the Blue Devils to a sixth national championship.
While a DJ played on the Abele quad, 107 students and two chaperones boarded a pair of deluxe motor coaches for the 17-hour ride to Baton Rouge. They departed at 10 p.m. sharp on Friday night.
Ahead of Saturday's epic Duke-UNC Final Four clash on Saturday, Governor Roy Cooper has officially proclaimed what so many have always known: that North Carolina is the center of the college basketball universe.
With a combined 248 wins and 11 titles in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, Duke and Carolina are somehow meeting in the national championships for the first time this year. The two have met 23 times in the ACC Tournament, with Duke leading 14-9.
They may be fierce rivals, but being neighbors has also helped UNC and Duke become collaborators, working together in academics and research.
Coach K's 13th appearance in the Final Four breaks a tie with John Wooden for most by a head coach in NCAA history. After announcing his retirement last year, this will be Coach K's last appearance as the head coach of Duke men's basketball.
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Duke is hosting a viewing party for students and their partners in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The second-seeded Blue Devils advanced to the 17th Final Four in program history with a 78-69 win over No. 4-seed Arkansas last Saturday night in San Francisco.
Duke (32-6) pulled away from the Razorbacks with a 10-0 second half run to become champions of the West Region for the first time, setting up a historic face-off in its most storied rivalry.
The origin of Duke's Blue Devil is one of the most requested snippets of history from the University Archives. The first attempt to settle on a name was unsuccessful, but then campus leaders in the class of 1923 took matters into their own hands.
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