The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team is one of the most successful college basketball programs in the US, and it is widely renowned in American college sports, especially in conjunction with its heated rivalry with the North Carolina Tar Heels. The team from Duke University has had great success over the past 27 years under coach Mike Krzyzewski, often simply called 'Coach K', as the fourth-winningest men's basketball program of all-time.
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Their official uniform colors are duke blue and white, and the mascot is Blue Devil. Duke has won three NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships and been in 14 Final Fours. Seventy-one players have been drafted in the NBA Draft, and they have had an Academic All-American on the team fourteen years. Duke has 16 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships in 1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006, which is second most of any team in the ACC behind the University of North Carolina's 17. They have won the regular season 18 times, and they are second, behind only UCLA, in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 110 weeks.
They also have the second longest streak in the AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007, and this streak only trails UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966-1980 as the longest of all-time. The streak ended with the AP poll released on February 12, 2007