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Head Coach
Mike Krzyzewski
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Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski stands first in ACC history with 833 career wins in 34 seasons ... named ACC Coach of the Year five times, Krzyzewski also has more wins than any other coach in Duke history with 760 wins in 29 seasons ... has coached the Blue Devils to ACC titles in eight of the past 11 years and 11 times overall - the second-best total in league history ... has won three NCAA titles in 1991, 1992 and 2001 ... owns an NCAA-record 10 30-win seasons and 24 seasons with 20 or more wins, including 11 straight 20-win seasons from 1984 to 1994, averaging 28.3 wins in the process ... Duke’s total of 37 wins in 1999 matched its own 1986 standard for most victories in a season in NCAA history ... only the second coach in NCAA history to take his team to five straight Final Fours (1988-92); also made it to the Final Four in 1986, 1994, 1999, 2001 and 2004 ... has guided the Blue Devils to post-season play in 26 of his 29 seasons, including 11 consecutive NCAA appearances (1984-94) ... Krzyzewski is the nation’s all-time leader with 71 NCAA Tournament wins and has posted a 71-22 (.763) mark in NCAA Tournament games ... the 1999 team set an ACC single-season record with 16 regular-season league wins ... has been named National Coach of the Year 12 times in eight different years ... in 1992, The Sporting News named him the Sportsman of the Year; he became the first college coach to win the honor.
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Preseason Information
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Devil Data
Senior Guard
Jon Scheyer
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Mike Krzyzewski welcomes back six of his top 10 players, including four starters, from last year’s ACC Championship team, which finished 30-7 and made the program’s 14th straight NCAA Tournament appearance ... the Blue Devils’ ACC title was their eighth league crown in 11 years and 17th overall ... Krzyzewski enters his 30th season at Duke with 833 career wins, 760 of which have come with the Blue Devils ... Krzyzewski’s total of 833 career wins ranks fourth on the NCAA all-time win list behind Bob Knight (902), Dean Smith (879) and Adolph Rupp (876) ... the Blue Devils have won 68 consecutive home games against non-conference opponents ... Duke ranked eighth nationally in turnover margin (+4.1), 10th in scoring margin (+11.6) and 27th in scoring offense (77.5) ... the Blue Devils lose one starter - Gerald Henderson - from a year ago ... Henderson scored 10 or more points in 27 of Duke’s last 29 games, finishing 11th among ACC scoring leaders (16.5) and ninth in field-goal percentage (.450) and becoming the 59th Blue Devil to earn first-team All-ACC honors ...
Junior Forward
Kyle Singler
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Duke also loses Elliot Williams, who started 11 of the last 12 games and averaged 7.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and shot .493 from the floor over that span ... after averaging 13.3 points and 5.8 rebounds and earning ACC Rookie of the Year honors in 2008, Kyle Singler improved to 16.5 points and 7.7 rebounds en route to second team All-ACC recognition as a sophomore ... one of two returning Blue Devils with 1,000 or more career points, Jon Scheyer averaged 18.6 points, 2.4 assists and 1.8 steals over the season’s final 12 games after being moved to point guard for the St. John’s game (F19) ... while splitting starting honors at center in 2008-09, Lance Thomas (16 starts) and Brian Zoubek (17 starts) combined to average 9.4 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks and shot a combined .602 from the floor ... Nolan Smith started 21 games as a sophomore in 2008-09, had 17 games with 10 or more points and averaged 8.4 points and 1.7 assists per outing.
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