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Duke basketball highlights NBA Summer League takeover in viral Instagram post featuring star-studded brotherhood reunion.
Gatorade Player of the Year Cameron Boozer believes Duke basketball is overlooked heading into 2025-26, and says that won’t last once the season begins.
The UCF men’s team will open its preseason schedule at one of the most iconic venues in all of college basketball as Johnny Dawkins return to Duke.
After hearing his name No. 1 overall at the 2022 NBA Draft following a Final Four one-and-done campaign at Duke in the last season of Mike Krzyzewki's legendary coaching career, Paolo Banchero became the NBA Rookie of the Year before powering the Magic to its first pair of postseason appearances this decade.
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And Rippey, who now ranks No. 17 overall and No. 2 among point guards on the 247Sports 2026 Composite and is the namesake son of the mid-1990s ECU basketball player, is set to first check out the Kentucky Wildcats beginning on Aug. 1.
This list is centered around what these players accomplished in their careers with the Blue Devils, not what they went on to do in the NBA. Paolo Banchero, Jayson Tatum, Brandon Ingram, Vernon Carey and Grayson Allen are among the notable names that just missed the list.