Duke Blue Devils
University	Duke University
Conference(s)	Atlantic Coast Conference
NCAA	Division I
Athletics director	Kevin White
Location	Durham, NC
Varsity teams	26
Football stadium	Wallace Wade Stadium
Basketball arena	Cameron Indoor Stadium
Baseball stadium	Jack Coombs Field
Nickname	Blue Devils
Fight song	Fight! Blue Devils, Fight! Blue and White
Colors	Duke Blue[1] and White
Homepage	www.GoDuke.com

Duke University's 26 varsity sports teams, known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils,"^[2] which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry battalion.

Overall history[link]

The Blue Devils have won twelve NCAA National Championships. The women's golf team has won five (1999, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007),^[3] the men's basketball team has won four (1991, 1992, 2001, and 2010), and the men's soccer (1986), women's tennis (2009), and men's lacrosse (2010) teams have won one each. Duke's major historic rival, especially in basketball, has been the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (see Duke-Carolina rivalry).

Duke has also captured 119 ACC Championships, 44 of which have come since 1999-2000 (through 2008-09).^[4] Duke's teams hold the longest streak of consecutive ACC Championships in women's tennis (14), women's golf (13), men's basketball (5), women's basketball (5) and volleyball (4, tied). The men's basketball (18), women's golf (16), and women's tennis (16) lead individual programs, while men's tennis (12), volleyball (9), football (7), men's cross country (7), men's lacrosse (7), men's golf (6), men's soccer (5), women's basketball (5), baseball (3), women's cross country (2) and women's lacrosse (1)^[4] have also captured titles. Duke boasts the most ACC Championships in women's golf, women's tennis, and men's basketball; the second most in men's tennis and volleyball; and third most in women's basketball, women's cross country and women's lacrosse.

In the past five years, Duke has finished in the top 20 every year in the NACDA Director's Cup, an overall measure of an institution's athletic success. Most recently, Duke has finished 10th (2010),^[5] 17th (2009),^[6] 19th (2008),^[7] 11th (2007),^[8] eighth (2006),^[9] and fifth (2005).^[10] Duke has the smallest undergraduate enrollment of any institution that has been in the top 35 the past two years.^[9][10] Furthermore, Duke is the only school besides Stanford that has finished in the top 20 in the past three years that has fewer than 10,000 undergraduates.^[9][10]

Duke teams that have been ranked in the top ten nationally in the 2000s include men's and women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's lacrosse, women's field hockey, and men's and women's golf. Eight of these teams were ranked either first or second in the country during 2004-05.^[11] According to a 2006 evaluation conducted by the NCAA, Duke's student-athletes have the highest graduation rate of any institution in the nation at 91%.^[12] Excluding students who leave or transfer in good academic standing, the graduation rate of student-athletes is 97%.^[13] In 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2011 Duke ranked first among Division I schools in the National Collegiate Scouting Association Power Rankings—a combination of the institution's Director's Cup standing, its athletic graduation rate, and its academic rank in U.S. News & World Report.^{[14][15][16][17]} There have been allegations that, like most other schools examined such as University of North Carolina, Duke's graduation rate may be inflated or be a result of athletes gravitating to easier courses and majors, though many have taken issue with such claims.^[18][19][20]

Men’s basketball[link]

Duke tips off against North Carolina on February 9, 2006

Duke University's men's basketball team is the fourth-winningest college basketball program of all-time, the team has had success over the past 25 years under coach Mike Krzyzewski (often simply called 'Coach K').

Duke has won four NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships -- second most of any ACC team (the University of North Carolina has 5)and been in 15 Final Fours. Seventy-one players have been drafted in the NBA Draft. Additionally, Duke has had an Academic All-American on the team fourteen years. Duke has 19 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships (1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011), the most of any team in the ACC (the University of North Carolina has 17). Duke also has been the top seed in the ACC tournament 19 times (1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006,2010).^[21] Duke is second, behind only UCLA, in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 110 weeks.^[22] The Blue Devils have the second longest streak in the AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007. This streak only trails UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966-1980 as the longest of all-time.^[23] The streak ended with the AP poll released on February 12, 2007.^[24]

Women's basketball[link]

During the 1990s and 2000s, the Duke women's basketball program has become a national powerhouse. Led by coach Gail Goestenkors from 1992–2007, Duke made ten NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances, seven Elite Eight appearances, four Final Four appearances, and two appearances in the NCAA Championship game during her tenure.^[25]

In the 2000-01 season, the Blue Devils posted a 30-4 record, won the ACC Tournament and ACC regular season championships, and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The 2001-02 season produced similar success. She led the Blue Devils to a 31-4 record and an NCAA Final Four appearance. Duke became the first ACC school to produce an undefeated 19-0 record in the ACC by winning the regular season and Tournament titles.

Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to an ACC-record 35-2 ledger in the 2002-03 season and their second straight NCAA Final Four appearance. For the second consecutive year, Duke posted a 19-0 record against ACC opponents.

In 2003-04, with Player of the year Alana Beard leading the way, the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight, boasting a 30-4 record, and won a fourth-straight Atlantic Coast Conference regular season title and a fifth-straight ACC Tournament championship. Duke also broke the University of Connecticut's 76-game home winning streak with a 68-67 buzzer-beater victory in Hartford, Connecticut.^[26]

The 2006-07 season ended with a 32-2 record and notched the school's first ever undefeated regular season (30-0). This also set an NCAA-record seventh straight 30-win season. Goestenkors is often known as the "winningest coach not to have won a championship," having finished runner-up two times in fifteen years.

On April 18, 2007, Joanne P. McCallie, or Coach P, was introduced as the new coach of Duke's women's basketball team after Goestenkors left for the University of Texas.^[27][28][29] Through 2011, the Blue Devils have won seven ACC Championships, the third most in the ACC.

Football[link]

Wallace Wade Stadium, home to Duke football and site of the 1942 Rose Bowl.

The most famous Duke football season came in 1938, when Wallace Wade was head coach and the "Iron Dukes" were born. Wade shocked the college football world by leaving Alabama for Duke in 1930, later rationalizing the move by saying that Duke shared his belief that a school should provide its athletes with a strong academic background. Wade's success at Alabama (three national championships) translated well to Duke's program, most notably in 1938, when his "Iron Dukes" went unscored upon the entire regular season. In fact, that Duke team is one of three in college football history to have gone undefeated, unscored upon, and untied in the regular season.^{[citation needed]} Duke reached their first Rose Bowl appearance, where they lost 7-3 when USC scored a touchdown in the final minute of the game on a pass from a second string quarterback to a third string tight end. Wade's Blue Devils lost another Rose Bowl to Oregon State in 1942, this one held at Duke's home stadium in Durham, North Carolina due to Pearl Harbor. Wade's achievements placed him in the Hall of Fame.

The football program also had a string of successful years in the late 1980s when the team was coached by Steve Spurrier. Spurrier led the Blue Devils to three consecutive winning seasons from 1987–1989, culminating with the Blue Devils sharing the ACC title in 1989 and playing in the All-American Bowl, where the Blue Devils lost to Texas Tech. The 1989 ACC title was the last title won by a school in the state of North Carolina until Wake Forest won their second ACC crown in 2006.

The team also rose to prominence in 1994, the first season under coach Fred Goldsmith. The team raced out to an 8–1 record, and was briefly ranked as high as #13 in the country before losing the last two games of the season 24–23 to North Carolina State and 41–40 to arch-rival North Carolina. The 1994 team played in the program's first New Years Day Bowl game since 1962, falling to Wisconsin 34–21 in the Hall of Fame Bowl, now known as the Outback Bowl.

The Blue Devils are currently coached by David Cutcliffe, who previously was head coach at Ole Miss and offensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee. They have won seven ACC Football Championships, which is the fourth most in the ACC trailing only Clemson, FSU, and Maryland. Ten ACC Football Players of the Year have come from Duke, the most in the ACC. Additionally, three 3 Pro Football Hall of Famers have come through Duke's program, second only to the Miami Hurricanes who have had 4 Hall of Famers, for the most in the ACC.

Duke is consistently ranked at or near the top of the list of Division I-A schools which graduate nearly all of their football players. Duke has topped the list 12 years, earning it the most Academic Achievement Awards of any university. Notre Dame has been honored six times, while Boston College and Northwestern have won the award four times each.^[30]

Women's golf[link]

While the men's basketball team gets the most press, the women's golf team has recently been the most successful team on campus. In the 2000-2005 seasons, Duke's head-to-head record was 796-45-3, a winning percentage of .945.^[31] The team won national championships in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 as well as 13 consecutive ACC championships from 1995-2008.^[4] A number of successful professional golfers have gone through Duke's program. Jenny Chausiriporn and Brittany Lang finished as runners-up in the U.S. Women's Open while still undergraduates in 1998 and 2005, respectively.

Men's lacrosse[link]

The men's lacrosse program has risen in prominence to challenge the traditional lacrosse powers such as Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Princeton, and Syracuse, as well as more recent contenders like North Carolina and Virginia. The team won the national title in 2010 after defeating Notre Dame 6-5 in overtime. They also reached the championship game in 2005 and 2007.^[32][33]

The men's lacrosse team gained national attention in the 2006 lacrosse incident, where members of the team were falsely accused of raping an exotic dancer at a team party. The ongoing investigation led to the cancellation of the 2006 season and the resignation of coach Mike Pressler. Contradictions in the accuser's many changing stories, unimpeachable alibi evidence provided by the players, and misconduct of then Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong led to all charges being dropped and the attorney general declaring the players innocent. Nifong was later removed and disbarred due to his misconduct in the case, and the team members who lost their season were granted another year of eligibility.

ACC Athletes of the Year[link]

The following Duke athletes have been honored as an ACC Athlete of the Year. The men’s award, the Anthony J. McKelvin Award, began when the ACC was formed in 1954. The women’s award, the Mary Garber Award, began in 1990.

All-Americans[link]

There have been numerous All-Americans in Duke University history. As of March 2006, 307 athletes have been honored 470 times as All-Americans.^[34] In men's sports, this status has been achieved 297 times by 204 athletes. In women's sports, it has occurred 172 times by 103 athletes. The breakdown for men's sports is as follows (times, number of different athletes): baseball (13, 8); basketball (55, 31); cross country (3, 2); fencing (9, 5); football (60, 53); golf (12, 9); lacrosse (57, 37); soccer (42, 28); swimming and diving (3, 3); tennis (26, 15); track and field (17, 13). The breakdown for women's sports is as follows (times, number of different athletes): basketball (14, 8); cross country (8, 6); fencing (4, 2); field hockey (19, 12); golf (31, 16); lacrosse (23, 11); rowing (5, 3); soccer (10, 8); swimming and diving (1, 1); tennis (36, 22); track and field (15, 9); volleyball (7, 5). Wrestling joined the list in 2009 after heavyweight Konrad Dudziak's performance in the championships, losing to Mark Ellis of Missouri in the finals.

Olympics[link]

Note: * indicates Duke coach at time of participation in Olympics

Other news[link]

In 2008, five Duke graduates qualified for the Olympic marathon trials, more than any other university.^[36]

History of the mascot[link]

See also: Duquesne Dukes (Duquesne University) and James Madison Dukes (James Madison University)

As World War I ended, Duke's Board of Trustees, then called the "Trinity College Board of Trustees", lifted their quarter century ban of football on campus leading to an interest in naming the athletic teams.^[37] The team was then known as the Trinity Eleven, the Blue and White, or the Methodists (as opposed to the Baptists of nearby rival Wake Forest University). Because of the ambiguity, the student newspaper, the Trinity Chronicle (now called The Chronicle) launched a campaign to create a new mascot. Nominations for a new team name included Catamounts, Grizzlies, Badgers, Dreadnaughts, and Captains. The Trinity Chronicle editor narrowed the many nominations down to those that utilized the school colors of dark blue and white. The narrowed list consisted of Blue Titans, Blue Eagles, Polar Bears, Blue Devils, Royal Blazes, and Blue Warriors. None of the nominations proved to be a clear favorite, but the name Blue Devils elicited criticism that could potentially engender opposition on campus. These fears were partly alleviated when it was revealed that the name was military and patriotic rather than anti-religious; the name actually refers to the Chasseurs Alpins, also known as "les diables bleus" ("The Blue Devils"), a French military unit which had impressed many Duke students and alumni returning home from the Western Front. The nickname of the Chaussers Alpins was derived from the blue jacket and blue-grey breeches worn as part of their WWI-era uniform. Even with this explanation, however, that year's football season passed with no official selection.

During the 1922–1923 academic year, campus student leaders and the editors of the two other student publications, The Archive and The Chanticleer, decided that the newspaper staff should decide the name on their own because the nomination process had proved inconclusive. Editor-in-chief William H. Lander and managing editor Mike Bradshaw began referring to the athletic teams as the Blue Devils. Though the name was not officially used that year, no opposition to the name arose. The Chronicle's staff continued to use the name and eventually “Blue Devils” became the official mascot and nickname of the Duke athletics program.

Fight songs[link]

See: Blue and White (Duke fight song) and Fight! Blue Devils, Fight!

Rivalries[link]

See: Carlyle Cup (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Duke Athletics
• Duke Archives Article
• Blue Devils Digest
• The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball by John Roth

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Quinn Cook
College	Duke
Conference	ACC
Sport	Basketball
Position	Point Guard
Jersey #	2
Class	Freshman
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Nationality	American
Born	(1993-03-23) March 23, 1993 (age 19) Washington, D.C.
High school	Oak Hill Academy, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia

Quinn Cook (born March 23, 1993) is an American college basketball player who currently plays guard for Duke University.^[1] He was one of the top rated basketball recruits in the class of 2011.

College career[link]

• Freshman year: Although Duke traveled to China and Dubai during the summer prior to Quinn Cook's senior season, Cook was forced to sit out all four exhibition games due to a lingering knee injury that he suffered during the summer before his senior year. Cook's debut in a Duke uniform was October 14, 2011 at Duke's annual Countdown to Craziness, he scored 7 points and passed for 2 assists in his first game as a Blue Devil.^[2] Cook's career high so far during his freshman season is 14 points, which came against UNC Greensboro on December 19, 2011.^[3] Cook looks to be a contributor off of the bench for Duke as a freshman, as he competes for minutes at point guard with Seth Curry and Tyler Thorton.

High school career[link]

Quinn Cook started his high school career at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. Cook played his freshman,^[4] sophomore,^[5] and junior,^[6] seasons at DeMatha. During Cook's career at DeMatha, the Stags had an impressive 85-18 record and finished as the number one ranked team in the state of Maryland during Cook's junior season.

During the summer prior to his senior season, Cook announced that he would be transferring to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.^[7] Cook followed in the footsteps of Oak Hill Academy's great tradition of point guards, which includes William Avery, Steve Blake, Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, Rajon Rondo, Nolan Smith, Rod Strickland, and Marcus Williams.^[8]

During Quinn Cook's senior season at Oak Hill Academy he led the Warriors to a 31-4 record,^[9] averaging 19.1 ppg, 10.9 apg and 2.5 steals.^[10]

High school accomplishments[link]

Cook had a tremendous high school career, following his junior season he was named the Washington Post All-Met Player of the Year, becoming the first junior in 30 years to be given the award and was the only junior to be named 2010 All-Met first team.^[11] Cook was also named to the Washington Post 2009 All-Met third team, the only sophomore to be listed among the ‘09 All-Met teams.^[12]

For Cook's tremendous play, he was invited to play in the fifth annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 game prior to his senior season, joining future Duke teammates Austin Rivers, Alex Murphy, and Michael Gbinije in the game.^[13]

Following his senior season at Oak Hill Academy, Cook was named a Second Team All-American by Maxpreps.^[14] And was also a participant in the 2011 McDonald's All-American Game.^[15]

USA basketball[link]

Medal record
Men’s basketball
Competitor for  United States
FIBA U16 World Championship
Gold	2009 Asia	Team competition
FIBA U17 World Championship
Gold	2010 Lithuania	Team competition

Quinn Cook was named to 2009-10 USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team on May 28, 2009. He was a member of the 2009 USA U16 National Team that posted a 5-0 mark, captured the 2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championship gold medal and qualified the U.S. for the 2010 FIBA U17 World Championship, he started all five games and averaged 15.6 ppg., 3.6 rpg. and a team-high 5.0 apg. He was also a member of the 2010 USA U17 World Championship Team that posted a perfect 8-0 record and captured the gold medal, Cook started all eight games and averaged 7.5 ppg. and 3.0 rpg., while dishing out a tournament-leading 7.4 apg.^[16]

On January 16, 2011, he was named to the 2011 USA Basketball Junior National Select Team which competed against a World Select Team in the annual Nike Hoop Summit.^[17] Cook had 12 points and 3 assists in 16 minutes, and Team USA went on to beat the World Select Team 92-80.^[18]

College recruitment[link]

Name	Hometown	High school / college	Height	Weight	Commit date
Quinn Cook PG	Washington D.C.	Oak Hill Academy	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	180 lb (82 kg)	Nov 4, 2010
	Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 96

Quinn Cook signed his letter of intent to play basketball at Duke on November 4, 2010, his announcement was broadcast live on ESPNU.^[19] He chose Duke over Villanova, UCLA, and North Carolina.^[20]

Cook on why he committed to Duke: ""The reason I chose Duke is because of Coach K."

Cook was ranked the #38 player by ESPNU,^[21] the #38 player by Rivals.com,^[22] and the #37 player by Scout.com^[23] coming out of high school.

Cook was a part of a five player recruiting class for Duke in 2011, which also included Austin Rivers, Alex Murphy, Marshall Plumlee and Michael Gbinije. Duke's 2011 class was the second best recruiting class in the entire country according to ESPNU.^[24]

References[link]

Blue Devil is a fictional character, a superhero featured in material published by DC Comics. He first appeared in a special insert published in Fury of Firestorm #24 (June 1984).^[1] That story led directly into Blue Devil #1, also cover dated June 1984.^[2] He was created by Dan Mishkin, Gary Cohn, and Paris Cullins.