Spring is the season of national championships at Duke. The school has 17 NCAA team titles and 11 of them have come from three spring sports. Women’s golf has seven, men’s lacrosse three and women’s tennis one.
All three of these programs are in the national-title mix this season.
Other spring sports have come close. The men’s golf team finished third as recently as 2018, the women’s lacrosse team was in the final four as recently as 2015 and the men’s tennis program has reached the NCAAs nine times in the last 12 seasons.
The national pastime has largely been absent from this title chase, at least in recent years.