Ranking The Best Coaches In Duke History

After our list of the Top 20 21 best players in Duke history, it got us to thinking about ranking some of the coaches.

It got tricky quickly. The first thing you have to consider is who to include. If you include assistants who went on to other things, it gets really interesting because several of them have met great success in the NBA.

And that sets up the first dilemma: who's the best coach who ever worked at Duke?

You could obviously make a case for Mike Krzyzewski. However, you could just as easily make an argument for a Duke assistant from the 1949-50 season: Arnold Auerbach.

Better known as Red, Auerbach worked at Duke when Gerry Gerard was the coach and ill with cancer. Auerbach was…