Vic Bubas’ Duke Blue Devils ruled the ACC during the middle 1960s. Duke went 50-6 in ACC regular-season competition in a four-year span from 1962-’63 through 1965-’66, winning three ACC Tournaments in that span.
All four of these teams accomplished things no Duke team had previously accomplished. Duke made its first Final Four in 1963. That was Art Heyman’s year, the year he became Duke’s first consensus national player of the year, Duke’s first ACC Player of the Year, the first Duke player to lead the ACC in scoring, the first to be the top selection in the NBA draft.