Duke men’s basketball is one of the esteemed college programs only measured by its trophy case.
After all, regular-season wins and conference tournament titles are nice, but once you’ve won five national championships, it’s hard for much else to feel like a successful season.
Those expectations can be crushing, especially if you apply them to each game of a regular season. However, even the five eternal teams in Blue Devils program lore weren’t perfect from start to finish over their regular seasons, even if most of them were pretty great.
Here’s a look back at how Duke finished each of the five regular seasons before it cut down the nets.