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7 Duke Streaks That Will Never be Topped
12/19/2016 12:00:00 PM | Athletics
When Duke won its first two games of the 2016-17 basketball season, the Blue Devils extended their streak of consecutive homecourt victories over nonconference opponents to 127, by far the longest such active streak in the nation (the next best was nearly 90 games behind Duke's). The streak began with the season-opener of Duke's 2001 NCAA championship campaign and reflects a remarkable period in program history. Who knows when it will end or if it will ever be topped, but here are six Duke athletics streaks we think will never be surpassed.
9 straight football shutouts
That's what the 1938 original Iron Dukes did en route to the Rose Bowl. Their perfect 9-0 season, in which they outscored the opposition 114-0, then came to an end with a 7-3 loss to Southern Cal in Pasadena.
24 straight ACC basketball road wins
Coach K directed Duke to two dozen consecutive conference road victories from February 1998 to February 2001. It is a major feat to go undefeated on the road in the ACC for one season, let alone string two or three of those together.
8 straight baseball games with a home run
Duke's Ryan Jackson accomplished this during the 1994 season. It is not only the ACC record, but also an NCAA record — one he still shares with Georgia Tech's Andy Bruce (1981). Jackson was 18-for-37 from the plate with 12 homers and 29 RBI during the eight games.
14 straight ACC women's tennis championships
The Blue Devils won their league every year from 1988 through 2001, under the direction of four different coaches. That is dominance. A companion streak is the team's run of 116 consecutive ACC match victories from 1989 through 2000. Or, how about this: during the decade of the 1990s, Duke women's tennis went 108-0 against the rest of the ACC.
13 straight ACC women's golf championships
Hall of Fame coach Dan Brooks oversaw this streak from 1996 through 2008, during a time when his program also won five NCAA titles and he became the all-time winningest coach in Division I history.
5 straight ACC men's basketball championships
Duke turned this unprecedented trick from 1999 through 2003. After falling in the 2004 championship game, the Blue Devils then won five of the next seven. If you're keeping score, that's 10 in 13 years. No one else has ever won more than three in a row, and right now the league is on a run of crowning a different champion for six straight years.
471 straight football broadcasts
Bob Harris, retiring this year as the Voice of the Blue Devils, never missed a Duke football game from his first call on Sept. 11, 1976 at Tennessee, through the 2016 season finale at Miami on Nov. 26, an incredible 41-year run.
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