46-552: The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium is an indoor sports arena , in Mumbai , Maharashtra . The facility seats 5,000 people. Originally an outdoor stadium, it was established in 1957 and the foundation stone was laid by the former Chief Minister of Maharashtra , Yashwantrao Chavan ; and the facility is administered by National Sports Club of India . It includes the facilities like Tennis , Badminton , Billiards , Table Tennis , Badminton , Carrom and Wrestling . In 2002,
92-1422: A coach and a player. Former Duke stars such as Jim Spanarkel , Gene Banks , Alaa Abdelnaby , Johnny Dawkins , Cherokee Parks , Bobby Hurley , Antonio Lang , Roshown McLeod , William Avery , Trajan Langdon , Grant Hill , Danny Ferry , Christian Laettner , Kenny Dennard , Brian Davis , Elton Brand , Shane Battier , Carlos Boozer , Chris Duhon , Mike Dunleavy Jr. , Dahntay Jones , Daniel Ewing , JJ Redick , Shavlik Randolph , Shelden Williams , Corey Maggette , Luol Deng , Josh McRoberts , Gerald Henderson , Andre Dawkins , Austin Rivers , Lance Thomas , Kyle Singler , Miles Plumlee , Mason Plumlee , Marshall Plumlee , Bob Verga , Quinn Cook , Nolan Smith , Jason Williams , Jabari Parker , Rodney Hood , Seth Curry , Kyrie Irving , Matt Jones , Amile Jefferson , Jahlil Okafor , Tyus Jones , Justise Winslow , Grayson Allen , Brandon Ingram , Luke Kennard , Jayson Tatum , Harry Giles , Frank Jackson , Gary Trent Jr. , Trevon Duval , Marvin Bagley III , Wendell Carter Jr. , RJ Barrett , Marques Bolden , Cam Reddish , Zion Williamson , Tre Jones , Vernon Carey Jr. , Cassius Stanley , Jalen Johnson , Paolo Banchero , Mark Williams , Wendell Moore Jr. , Trevor Keels , AJ Griffin and Dereck Lively II have gone on to play in
138-564: A decided home-court advantage for many years, thanks to the diehard students known as the Cameron Crazies . The hardwood floor has been dedicated and renamed Coach K Court in honor of head coach Mike Krzyzewski , and the tent city outside Cameron where students camp out before big games is known as Krzyzewskiville . In 1999, Sports Illustrated ranked Cameron the fourth best venue in all of professional and college sports, and USA Today referred to it as "the toughest road game in
184-836: A gymnasium. The stadium is host of the Indian Badminton League and is home of Mumbai Marathas . It is the home of the Pro Kabaddi League team U Mumba . The stadium is the home venue of the Premier Badminton League team, the Mumbai Masters . The first ever National Basketball Association (NBA) games in India took place on 4 and 5 October 2019 at the NSCI Dome. The NBA India Games 2019 featured two preseason games between
230-780: A loss to Wake Forest , 24–10. The game was played in the Angier B. Duke Gymnasium, later known as The Ark. The Trinity team won its first title in 1920, the state championship, by beating the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State ) 25 to 24. Earlier in the season they had beaten the University of North Carolina 19–18 in the first match-up between the two schools. Trinity college then became Duke University. Billy Werber , Class of 1930, became Duke's first All-American in basketball. The Gothic-style West Campus opened that year, with
276-528: A multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such a facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with
322-471: A new gym, later to be named for Coach Card. The Indoor Stadium opened in 1940. Initially it was referred to as an "Addition" to the gymnasium. Part of its cost was paid for with the proceeds from the Duke football team's appearance in the 1938 Rose Bowl . In 1972 it would be named for Eddie Cameron , head coach from 1929 to 1942. In 1952, Dick Groat became the first Duke player to be named National Player of
368-522: A non-conference game at Cameron from 2000 until 2019, when SFASU beat Duke in overtime (85–83). Duke maintains a tradition of hosting the previous season's Division II national champion in an exhibition game each November. Cameron Indoor Stadium was completed on January 6, 1940, having cost $ 400,000. At the time, it was the largest gymnasium in the country south of the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania . Originally called Duke Indoor Stadium, it
414-687: A record 22 times, and also lays claim to 19 ACC regular season titles. Prior to joining the ACC, Duke won the Southern Conference championships five times. Duke has also finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP poll eight times and is the all-time leader in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 145 weeks. Additionally, the Blue Devils have the third longest streak in
460-403: A team led by renowned architecture firm Shashi Prabhu & Associates and Sterling Engineers as their structural designers, planned an indoor stadium in place of the old open air stadium. The 5000 capacity indoor stadium with 16 ancillary halls was constructed there with a basement measuring almost 12 acres and accommodating 1000 car parking places. Today, the stadium houses a large health club and
506-684: A turn-around jumper at the buzzer to send Duke into the Final Four with a 104–103 victory (The Shot) . Duke went on to defeat sixth-seeded Michigan , led by the Fab Five as freshmen starters including Chris Webber , Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard , 71–51 to repeat as national champions. Following the successful repeat, Laettner was the only collegiate player to be chosen for the Dream Team that won Olympic gold in Barcelona, while Krzyzewski
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#1732775575514552-583: Is "still the best." The Michigan Wolverines and the Maryland Terrapins basketball teams have also claimed rivalries against the Blue Devils, but Duke has long rejected both claims and considers North Carolina to be its only rival. The Duke men's basketball team has been noted as a particularly hated team within the sport. Some of the hate comes from fans of rival teams, most notably the North Carolina Tar Heels . The hate
598-503: Is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals against outsiders, elitists against populists, even good against evil... The rivalry may be a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals — of choosing teams in life — a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessity of hatred. The rivalry has been the subject of various books and articles, including To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever by Blythe and Blue Blood by Art Chansky. Further illustrating
644-421: Is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate
690-466: Is a private university whereas North Carolina is a public school; the vastly different funding structures and cultures between the two further contribute to the intensity of the rivalry. Former Esquire editor and author (and North Carolina graduate) Will Blythe argues that the rivalry's passion can be attributed greatly to class and culture in the South. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it
736-403: Is often tied to Duke's record, as the team has experienced success in most seasons since the late 1980s. The hate is often tied to specific players. Christian Laettner , who played for Duke from 1988 to 1992 as they won two national championships, is often named as one of the most hated players in college basketball. The 2015 documentary I Hate Christian Laettner names five main reasons for
782-589: The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is currently coached by Jon Scheyer . Duke has won 5 National Championships (tied with Indiana for fifth all-time behind UCLA , Kentucky , North Carolina , UConn ), and appeared in 11 Championship Games (third all-time) and 17 Final Fours (tied for third all-time with Kentucky and only behind North Carolina and UCLA ). Additionally, all of Duke's championships were won after
828-493: The North Carolina Tar Heels twice each year during ACC play, with thousands of Duke undergraduate students participating in an annual tradition of camping out in Krzyzewskiville , a lawn in front of Cameron Indoor Stadium , for months to line up for admission into the rivalry game. The two teams always face each other for their last game of the regular season, with the home team hosting their Senior Night. Some years,
874-627: The Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers , and marked the first time that teams from a North American sports league played in India. The stadium can be reached by train. Nearest railway stations are Mahalaxmi and Lower Parel on the Western Line , and Chinchpokli on the Central Line . This article about an Indian sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Indoor arena An arena
920-858: The 1996 tournament with an 18–12 record, 8–8 in conference play. They would also fall in the 1999 title game, this time to Jim Calhoun and the UConn Huskies. Duke defeated Arizona 82–72 to win its third NCAA Championship in 2001, becoming one of a handful of teams in NCAA Tournament history to defeat all of their tournament opponents by double digits. Krzyzewski was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame later that year. On April 5, 2010, Duke Men's Basketball won their fourth NCAA Championship by defeating Butler 61–59. On April 6, 2015, Duke's Men's Basketball won their fifth NCAA Championship by defeating Wisconsin 68–63. Coach K announced that
966-449: The 2021–22 season would be his last coaching for Duke. Making it to the Final Four one last time, Duke fell just short of the championship game losing to the North Carolina Tar Heels 81–77 in the first ever meeting between the rivals in the NCAA Tournament. On June 2, 2022, Scheyer was named as the new head coach at Duke following Krzyzewski's retirement. On March 11, 2023, he became the first person to win an ACC tournament title as both
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#17327755755141012-425: The 4 schools form Tobacco Road. Duke and North Carolina have combined for 11 national championships, with North Carolina leading Duke 6–5. The intensity of the rivalry is augmented by the proximity of the two universities, located only ten miles apart along U.S. Highway 15–501 (also known as Tobacco Road ) or eight miles apart in straight-line distance in the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill . In addition, Duke
1058-563: The AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007, trailing only Kansas' 231 consecutive polls from 2009 to 2021, and UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966 to 1980. In 1906, Wilbur Wade Card, Trinity College's Athletic Director and a member of the Class of 1900, introduced the game of basketball to Trinity. The January 30 issue of The Trinity Chronicle headlined the new sport on its front page. Trinity's first game ended in
1104-830: The NBA, while Pete Gaudet is now the head coach of the India women's national basketball team . National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion The NCAA began seeding
1150-633: The NBA. Many of Krzyzewski's assistants and former players, such as Tommy Amaker ( Seton Hall , University of Michigan and Harvard ), Bob Bender ( Illinois State University and University of Washington ), Chuck Swenson at William & Mary, Mike Brey ( Delaware and Notre Dame ), Jeff Capel ( VCU , Oklahoma and Pittsburgh ), Chris Collins ( Northwestern ), Johnny Dawkins ( Stanford , UCF ), Quin Snyder ( Missouri , Utah Jazz , Atlanta Hawks ), and Steve Wojciechowski ( Marquette ) have become head basketball coaches at major universities and
1196-710: The NCAA instituted a shot clock. Duke has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been named the National Player of the Year, and 71 players have been selected in the NBA draft . Additionally, Duke has had 36 players named All-Americans (60 total selections) and 14 players named Academic All-Americans . Duke has been the Atlantic Coast Conference Champions
1242-490: The Washington Huskies (having earned a first-round bye). In 1985 Duke defeated Pepperdine in the first round of the NCAA tournament, for Krzyzewski's first tournament win, but lost to Boston College in the second round 74–73. The next season the Blue Devils made their first Final Four under Krzyzewski. They beat Kansas to advance to the title game against Louisville, where they ultimately lost 72–69. Duke upset
1288-520: The Year. Duke left the Southern Conference to become a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. The Duke team under Vic Bubas made its first appearance in the Final Four in 1963 , losing 94–75 to Loyola Chicago in the semifinal. The next year , Bubas' team reached the national title game , losing to the Bruins of UCLA , which claimed the first of that program's 10 titles in
1334-464: The facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for
1380-453: The floor. Mike Krzyzewski was at Duke from 1980 to 2022. Krzyzewski's teams made the Final Four in 1986 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1994 , 1999 , 2001 , 2004 , 2010 , 2015 and 2022 . In Krzyzewski's first season , the Blue Devils would finish the season with a 17–13 overall record and 6–8 record in ACC play. The team would later play in the NIT tournament advancing to
1426-563: The greatest college basketball game ever played," according to ESPN . In the Elite Eight, Duke met the Rick Pitino -led Kentucky Wildcats. It appeared Kentucky had sealed the win in overtime when guard Sean Woods hit a running shot off the glass in the lane to put Kentucky up by one with 2.1 seconds left on the clock. After a timeout, Duke's Grant Hill threw a full-court pass to Christian Laettner. Laettner took one dribble and nailed
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1472-452: The hate: "privilege, race, bully, greatness and looks". JJ Redick , who played at Duke from 2002 to 2006 also experienced hatred and animosity from fans during his tenure. Another particularly hated player is Grayson Allen , who played for Duke from 2014 to 2018. In addition to many of the reasons Laettner was hated, Allen was also targeted after several incidents in which he deliberately tripped opposing players. Duke has 10 victories over
1518-427: The heavily favored UNLV Runnin' Rebels 79–77 in the Final Four in 1991, a rematch of the 1990 final in which Duke lost by 30 points. The team, led by Christian Laettner , Bobby Hurley , Grant Hill , and Thomas Hill, went on to defeat Kansas 72–65 to win the university's first NCAA Championship. Ranked #1 all season and favored to repeat as national champions in 1992, Duke took part in a game "acclaimed by many [as]
1564-543: The intensity of the rivalry, U.S. Representative Brad Miller , a die-hard Carolina fan, told an Associated Press writer in 2012, "I have said very publicly that if Duke was playing against the Taliban , then I'd have to pull for the Taliban." However, also due to the close proximity of the two schools, there is respect and collaboration within the rivalry. Inspired by the men's basketball teams, twenty-four students from
1610-524: The nation". (since 2005) The following 78 McDonald's All-Americans have signed and played for Duke. As of October 7, 2024, these former Blue Devils players were in the NBA: The Duke–North Carolina rivalry is often ranked among the top rivalries in both college basketball and all North American sports. Entering the 2023 - 2024 season, North Carolina leads the rivalry, winning 141 games to Duke's 115. The Duke Blue Devils face
1656-522: The next 12 years. Bob Verga was Duke's star player in 1967. The basketball program won its 1000th game in 1974, making Duke only the eighth school in NCAA history to reach that figure. In a turnaround, Coach Bill Foster 's 1978 Blue Devils , who had gone 2–10 in the ACC the previous year, won the conference tournament and went on to the NCAA championship game , where they fell to Kentucky . Gene Banks , Mike Gminski ('80) and Jim Spanarkel ('79) ran
1702-450: The quarterfinals. Despite having a good record the previous season, the Blue Devils would struggle during the next two seasons finishing with 10 wins in 1982 and 11 wins in 1983. The 1984 team , led by Tommy Amaker & Johnny Dawkins , would bounce back in strong fashion finishing 24–10 and was ranked the No.14 in the AP and Coaches poll, but lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament to
1748-480: The school papers have also engaged in the rivalry. As a tradition, one day prior to a Duke-North Carolina basketball game, The Chronicle , Duke's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title The Daily Tar Hole . Contained within are satirical stories poking fun at The Daily Tar Heel and the North Carolina Tar Heels . The Daily Tar Heel typically publishes former columnist Ian Williams' "Insider's guide to hating Duke" for
1794-520: The tournament with the 1978 edition . The Blue Devils have appeared in the NCAA tournament 46 times. Their combined record is 122–40. The Blue Devils have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) five times. Their combined record is 5–6. As of the 2017–18 season, the Blue Devils' program record is as follows. Duke has been ranked as the #1 team in the nation 235 weeks in their history. Duke had not lost
1840-405: The two basketball match-ups each year. There is a longstanding agreement that if Duke wins the first matchup, The Daily Tar Heel ' s masthead is printed in Duke blue, and if North Carolina wins the first matchup, The Chronicle ' s masthead is painted Carolina blue. The losing school's paper also has to put the other school's logo in a conspicuous location and claim that the winning school
1886-578: The two schools got together from January 14–16, 2006 in order to attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous game of basketball ever recorded. The game set a new world record at 57 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds with Duke winning the game 3699–3444. All $ 60,000 raised from the marathon benefited the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, an organization which helps children with life-threatening illnesses develop successful life skills through basketball. Beyond athletics,
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1932-637: The two teams meet for a third game in the ACC tournament . The teams have met twice in post-season tournament play. In 2022, the two schools met in the Final Four to face each other in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. In that game, the Tar Heels defeated the Blue Devils 81–77. In 1971 the two rivals met in the semi-finals of the NIT, a game also won by North Carolina by a score of 73 - 69. Duke also has rivalries with NC State and Wake Forest, and together with UNC,
1978-538: The type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of the larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but
2024-753: The usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse as well as futsal and indoor soccer , also exist. The term "arena" is also used loosely to refer to any event or type of event which either literally or metaphorically takes place in such a location, often with the specific intent of comparing an idea to a sporting event. Such examples of these would be terms such as "the arena of war", "the arena of love" or "the political arena". Duke Blue Devils men%27s basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in
2070-591: Was an assistant coach under Chuck Daly of the Detroit Pistons in a precursor to his becoming Team USA coach in 2006 and coaching them to two gold medals. They would later meet Kentucky for another classic regional final game, but blow a 17-point second half lead in losing to the Wildcats. The Blue Devils would lose the 1994 title game to Arkansas and their "Forty Minutes of Hell" defense. The next two seasons would see them fall to just 31–31, though they made
2116-460: Was renamed for Coach Cameron on January 22, 1972. The building originally included seating for 8,800, though standing room was sufficient to ensure that 12,000 could fit in on a particularly busy day. Then, as now, Duke students were allowed a large chunk of the seats, including those directly alongside the court. Renovations in 1987–1988 removed the standing room areas and added seats, bringing capacity to 9,314. Duke's men's basketball teams have had
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