Many Blue Devil fans have only known Duke Basketball as Mike Krzyzewski envisioned it and with an epic 42-year run, that’s totally understandable.
However, Duke Basketball did not start in 1980. There is a tremendous history before then, including the brief, highly successful Bill Foster era in the 1970’s. And before that was the glorious Vic Bubas era in the 1960’s.
A lot of older Duke fans remember it well. Bubas came out of the Indiana fast break tradition that Everett Case brought to North Carolina. Indeed, Case brought Bubas to NC State; Duke hired him away as an assistant in 1960, a few years before Case was diagnosed with cancer.