Top NCAA Basketball Programs of All Time
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# 10 - Maryland Terrapins
# 9 - Michigan State Spartans
# 8 - University of Connecticut Huskies
# 7 - Indiana Hoosiers
# 6 - Georgetown Hoyas
# 5 - Kansas Jayhawks
# 4 - Kentucky Wildcats
# 3 - University of North Carolina Tarheels
# 2 - Duke Blue Devils

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• Play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and their rivalry with North Carolina is one of the most intense in the league, leading fans to differentiate the blue of each school “Duke blue” and “Carolina blue”
• Coack Mike Krzyzewski has been head coach at Duke since 1981 and is one of the most successful NCAA coaches of all-time and enjoys a life-time contract at Duke at $800,000/yr
• They have 6 players who were named Naismith college player of the year
• For the 2005-2006 season, Duke had the most players who were playing with an NBA team at 11
• Many of their star players that went on to the NBA list includes Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Danny Ferry, Elton Brand, Jay Williams, Shane Battier and Mike Dunleavy
• They have won 3 National championships including a repeat in 91-92 and during that run they made it to the Final Four in 4 consecutive years (starting in 1988)
• Right up at the top for most Final Four appearances (13)
• They won the ACC tournament 5 years in a row from 1999-2003
• ACC includes regularly strong teams like UNC, Maryland, Wake Forest
• Cameron Indoor Stadium sits 9,314 fans who are known as the “Cameron crazies”
• Known as one of the loudest buildings in college basketball

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