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<p>CNI - Northwestern has more programs ranked in the top 10, top 20 and top 30 than Duke.</p>
<p>As for prestige - yeah, Duke gets a slight edge, but that’s in large part due to the East Coast bias (Duke gets a lot of the prep kids from NY, NJ, Conn).</p>
<p>Personally, I turned down Duke and a no. of Ivies b/c I wanted to have access to a major city and not be stuck in the “boonies” (ultimately came down btwn NU and Penn).</p>
<p>And while Duke BB is clearly better (though Duke has been getting bounced early from the Tourney lately due to not having any top-tier big men), in college, football is king and NU FB is set to make a run at the upper tier of the conf. - esp. now that Coach Fitz has put in his own coaching staff w/ a new O and D co-ordinators.</p>
<p>As for BB - NU has 4 All-State recruits coming in (2 from IL and 2 from MI) and is in the hunt for some of the top recruits in IL for 2009.</p>