There’s no question that Vic Bubas is the second-most successful coach in Duke men’s basketball history. Eddie Cameron won a few more game but he also coached four more seasons. Bubas was the first Duke coach to win an ACC Tournament, the first to win an NCAA Tournament game, the first to reach the Final Four, the first to have a top-ranked team. Only UCLA and Cincinnati won more games in the 1960s.
Looking back in hindsight, it all appears inevitable. Bubas had come down from Gary, Indiana to be one of Everett Case’s Hoosier Hotshots, with the express intention of having Case show him how to become a college coach.