10 Questions about Duke Basketball | Sports

Answer: Memphis

The Memphis Tigers won an NCAA record 38 games in 2008, finishing 38-2 for the season, and runner-up in the championship game.

Answer: 3rd

They won back-to-back championships in 1991-1992, and won their 3rd in 2001.

Answer: UNLV

UNLV won the title in 1990 by humiliating Duke with dunk after dunk in a 103-73 pounding. They entered the tournament in 1991 as favorites to repeat, also attempting to be the 1st team since Indiana in 1976 to go undefeated. UNLV entered the National semi-final game with a 34-0 record, and were heavily favored to repeat the previous season's dominance of Duke.

However, Duke pulled off the stunning upset, 79-77, and went on to defeat Kansas 72-65 to win the 1991 championship.

Answer: No

Only the players are awarded medals in team competition. However, as a touching gesture, all 12 members of the team placed their medals around Coach K's neck, and posed for a picture with him. NBA greats such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and the rest of Team USA helped give him quite a souvenir.

Answer: Durham, NC

They are located just 7 short miles away from their Chapel Hill arch-rivals, the North Carolina Tar Heels. This, by the way, is arguably the biggest rivalry in college basketball.

Answer: Michigan

Duke impressively defended their 1991 Championship, handling Michigan rather easily 71-51 for their second National Championship. Incidentally, Michigan would make it to the title game the following year, only to fall short to another ACC team, North Carolina. In 2006-07, the Florida Gators became the first repeat champions since Duke accomplished the feat in 1991-1992.

Answer: J. J. Redick

J.J. was an outstanding collegiate player, and set a NCAA record for career 3-pointers made with 457, hitting an impressive 40.4% taken.

Answer: Christian Laettner

This was arguably the best college basketball game ever. A trip to the 1992 Final Four was at stake, an epic battle between Kentucky and Duke. Back and forth both teams went, hitting shot after shot (both teams combined for an astonishing 61% FG percentage for the game), and the game was tied 93-93 at the end of regulation.

In overtime, the drama continued and all seemed lost when Kentucky's Sean Woods made an improbable shot over the outstretched Laettner's arm to put Kentucky ahead 103-102 with 2.1 seconds remaining. You might know the rest. Grant Hill threw the ball 3/4 the length of the court, Laettner caught it at the top of the key, he faked one way, turned the other, and lofted the game-winning goal as time expired. 104-103 and a trip to the Final Four.

Incidentally, Christian Laettner was perfect that game, 10 for 10 from the field, and 10 for 10 from the free throw line, for 31 points.

Answer: Cameron Crazies

The Cameron Crazies are probably the most imitated, but never duplicated group of fans in all of sports. Many traditions now practiced at universities all over the country started at Duke, to include the famous "Air Ball" chant that has been said to have originated at Duke in 1979.

Answer: Arizona

Duke had an extreme battle just to get to the championship game, in the National semi-final against Maryland. Duke had to erase a 22-point first half deficit to emerge victorious. In the championship game, Duke outlasted the sensational starting five of the Arizona Wildcats 82-72, to win their third National Title in nine years (1991, 1992 and 2001).