Wilbur Wade "Cap" Card, 1906-1912.  Record: 30-17

Nicknamed "Cap" because he was captain of the baseball team, he's been called the "Father of intercollegiate basketball in North Carolina." In addition to coaching, he also directed the physical education program. He stepped aside as coach after the 1912 season to devote all his time to that job. 

After Card stepped down, there were 10 different head coaches, some barely older than the students they coached: J.E. Brinn, 1913-1914; Noble L. Clay, 1914-1915; Bob Doak, 1915-1916; Chick Doak, 1917-1918; H.P. Cole, 1918-1919; W.J. Rothenseis, 1919-1920; Floyd Egan, 1920-1921; James Baldwin, 1921-1922; J.S. Burbage, 1922-1924; George Burkheit , 1925-1928.
 

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Eddie Cameron, 1929-1942. Record: 226-99

Eddie Cameron was named head basketball coach in 1929, and head football coach in 1942. He became permanent Director of Physical Education and Athletics in 1946 when Wallace Wade returned from military service and resumed coaching football. Cameron's active participation in Duke athletics spanned forty-six years from 1926 to 1972, and after retirement, his unofficial contribution continued sixteen more years, until his death in 1988 at age 86. 
 

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Gerry Gerrard, 1943-1950. Record: 131-78

In his eight years as head coach, Gerrard was named coach of the year twice. Two of his teams won the Southern conference  championship (1944, 1946) after getting to the final six years in a row. Basketball during World War II was dominated by military teams, and Duke benefited by having a  Navy's V-12 program on campus.
 

Harold Bradley, 1951- 1959. Record: 167-78

Under Bradley, Duke won the ACC regular season in 1954, the first year of the conference's existence, and his teams never had a losing season. Though they played for the conference tournament championship three times, the trophy eluded them.  His 1955 squad made Duke's first appearance in the NCAA tournament after conference champion NC State was ruled ineligible.
 

Vic Bubas, 1960-1969.  Record: 213-67

The decade of the 1960s saw Duke win 213 games, four ACC regular season championships, four ACC tournament titles, and make the Final Four three times. For six consecutive seasons, the Blue Devils finished in the top 10. From 1961 to 1967, the Blue Devils had the best record in the country, at 159-37. Bubas had played guard at NC State under Everett Case, and later coached Case's freshman teams.
 

Bucky Waters, 1970-1973  Record: 63-45

Waters had played at NC State in the 1950s when Bubas was an assistant coach there. When Coach Bubas stepped down at Duke, Waters, his former assistant, was the head coach at West Virginia and the nation's youngest head coach.  He was persuaded to return to Duke. His teams at West Virginia had twice beaten Duke, but his time as head coach here would prove to be a difficult one.
 

Neal McGeachy, 1973-1974  Record: 10-16

Waters' top assistant coach, McGeachy took over the program just one month prior to the 73-74 season. Without head coaching experience and with a killer schedule, Duke finished last in the ACC for the first time in the school's history and overall was 10 and 16, although 10 of the losses were to Top-10 squads. However, during this period, the Duke program got its 1000th victory, on February 13, 1974 over Virginia.
 

Bill Foster, 1975-1980 Record: 113-64

After the difficult years that followed  Bubas' departure, the arrival of Bill Foster signaled a time of rebuilding. He had done that at his previous school, the University of Utah. His teams, known as the "Runnin' Dukes," brought the program back to national prominence, particularly after the spectacular turnaround between 1977, when the Duke team was 14 and 13, and 1978, when the team went 27-7 and lost to Kentucky in the national title game.
 

Mike Krzyzewski, 1980-  Record:  621-181 (1980-2004)

When the Athletic Department announced that Duke had hired the coach at Army, many people were surprised. Then-Athletic Director Tom Butters wanted the best coach in the nation, but not even he could have predicted what Mike Krzyzewski has accomplished: three NCAA titles, ten Final Fours, ten ACC championship seasons, eight ACC tournament titles...