Duke Basketball Report · Apr 14, 2022
YouTube Gold: Duke Upsets Maryland In Cameron
UNITED STATES - MARCH 04: College Basketball: ACC Tournament, Duke Jim Spanarkel (34) victorious with net after winning game and tournament vs Wake Forest, Greensboro, NC 3/3/1978Duke fans got used to winning and winning big under Mike Krzyzewski but it wasn’t always like that.
Duke took a major dip in the post-Bubas years and the brief Bucky Waters era ended with frustration on all parts.
Neil McGeachy was an interim coach for a year, and at some point Duke AD Carl James bizarrely tried to hire former Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp.
Things were not good and Duke had become the team every ACC team looked forward to for an easy win.
But James did get one thing right: he hired Bill Foster.