the last time duke won a national championship was 2015.
the last time duke won a national championship was 2015.
when's the last time duke won a national championship?
2015
at one time, the series was every bit as heated as the basketball rivalry between the two schools. however, this rivalry has been revived in recent years as duke has dominated the rivalry since 2012. after a period where duke won only one game between 1990 and 2011, the victory bell has resided in durham for five of the last seven years. duke victories in the 2012 and 2013 games marked the first time duke had won consecutive games in the series since winning three straight from 1987 to 1989. after consecutive north carolina victories in 2014 and 2015, duke matched its longest winning streak in the last 30 years with wins in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
victory bell (north carolina–duke)
the last time, as of 2019, a mid-major team won the national championship was 1990 when unlv won with a 103-73 win over duke, since unlv was then a member of the big west and since 1999 has been a member of the mw; the big west was not then considered a power conference, nor is the mw today. however, during the tenure of unlv's coach at the time, jerry tarkanian, the runnin' rebels were widely viewed as a major program despite their conference affiliation (a situation similar to that of gonzaga in the 2010s). the last time, as of 2019, an independent mid-major team won the national championship was 1977 when marquette won with a 67-59 win over north carolina. however, at the time, a significant minority of ncaa division i schools were still independents, with several of these, including marquette, being traditional basketball powers. (marquette is now a member of the big east conference, the one non-football league that is universally considered a major basketball conference.) the last time, as of 2019, a mid-major team from a small media market (defined as a market out of the top 25 television markets in the united states in 2019) won the national championship was arguably 1962 when cincinnati, then in the mvc, won 71–59 over ohio state of the big ten, since cincinnati's tv market is listed 35th in the nation as of 2019. however, there was much less of a division between "major" and "mid-major" conferences in 1962, and the mvc was generally seen in that day as a major basketball conference.
ncaa division i men's basketball tournament