Unveiling Duke’s 2025-26 Secret Weapon: A Surprising Stat That Could Rewrite College Basketball History
Those previous groups went on to peak performances. The Wolfpack won the NCAA title in 1974 after coming off probation in ’73. Duke reached the ’99 national championship contest with an ACC-record 24.7-point scoring margin, and followed with an NCAA title in 2001.
A mere 11 ACC clubs in nearly three-quarters of a century, counting last year’s Blue Devils, achieved the impressive balance of pacing the league both in scoring margin and scoring defense in the same season. Six of the last seven (since 1981) reached a Final Four.
Should Duke end this season leading in both categories it would be the first time an ACC program made so measurably strong a statement two years in a row.
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