We often like to remind people that Duke Basketball started before Mike Krzyzewski took the job in 1980. He put Duke in a different orbit, but the truth is that Duke made the Final Four three times in the 1960’s, once in the 1970’s and just missed in 1980 and even in the Southern Conference, Duke had some great teams.
Vic Bubas took the job in 1959 and almost immediately turned things around. And it wasn’t too long before Art Heyman emerged as the best player at Duke since Dick Groat and one of the best in the country in the early 1960’s.