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What If: 1965 Could Have Been A Special Year For Duke Basketball

I’ve talked a lot about Duke’s 1965 basketball team over the years, most recently in the Bill Bradley what-if, when 1965 would have been Bradley’s senior year at Duke and the Blue Devils would have been going for a three-peat.

Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

But Bradley was elsewhere in 1965 and Duke was still pretty good. Only three times has an ACC team finished first in the regular season four consecutive seasons. North Carolina did it 1976 through 1979, tying Duke in 1979. Duke did it five consecutive seasons, 1997 through 2001, tying North Carolina in 2001.