Team: Duke Blue Devils
Stadium: Wallace Wade Stadium
Conference: ACC
Sport: College Football
Background: The university has two
schools for undergraduates: Trinity College of Arts
and Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering.
Duke University also has several graduate and professional
schools: the Nicholas School of the Environment and
Earth Sciences, the School of Medicine, the School of
Nursing, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of
Law, the Divinity School, and the Graduate School. Some
applicants to Duke can enter the Robertson Scholarship
program, which offers a tuition-free education at both
Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Duke University's Talent Identification Program, or
TIP, is for seventh- through tenth-graders who have
scored well on the SAT or ACT. They can go to camps
at Duke University East or West campus and take a variety
of classes. The TIP program also includes a summer program
for rising seniors who can attend classes in Duke's
"Pre-college" summer session.
The school's sports teams are called the Blue Devils.
They compete in the NCAA's Division I-A Atlantic Coast
Conference. Duke's major historic rival, especially
in basketball, has been the Tar Heels of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Duke Men's basketball is one of the most well known
college athletics programs in the country. ESPN analyst
Joe Lunardi has called the Blue Devils from the early
1980s to today a dynasty. The team's achievements under
coach Mike Krzyzewski include making the Final Four
five years in a row from 1988 to 1992, winning the ACC
Tournament an unprecedented five years in a row from
1999 to 2003, having six players named Naismith College
Player of the Year in under 20 years, and becoming the
only team to win three national championships since
the NCAA Tournament field was expanded to 64 teams.