<p>wintersilk,</p>
<p>Duke’s success is largely due to two things: (1) coack K who has been there for many years and (2) as elsijfdl pointed out, Duke allows significant academic compromise for BB (last I saw the NCAA grad/SAT stats when they were still available few years ago, their bb players’ average was like 900 and the grad rate was hedious). Duke holds other sports to high admission standard like NU, however; BB is its only exception.</p>