Resurgence + Title
The 2010 and 2015 championships. Coach K’s 4th and 5th rings.
The Resurgence + Title Era at Duke, 2009–15
The 2010 and 2015 championships. Coach K’s 4th and 5th rings. Across 6 seasons Duke went 185-36 (.837) and won 2 national championships, taking 2 ACC Tournament titles.
27 players wore the uniform in this era and are catalogued below. 14 were drafted into the NBA; 19 reached an NBA roster, a number that can run higher because undrafted players make teams too. The rest went into coaching, medicine, law, business and the ordinary lives that make up most of any roster. Each card below links to a full profile: how he got to Duke, what he did here, and where he is now.
Every Duke Player of the Resurgence + Title Era
Casey Peters
Manager, walk-on, scholarship senior, champion. Now he runs a $1.75 billion investment firm.
Kyle Singler
Four years, 148 games. The kid from Medford who stayed.
Seth Curry
The other Curry.
Miles Plumlee
The first Plumlee. The one whose feet broke the ink pad.
Andre Dawkins
The purest shooter on a championship team — and the hardest story in the Brotherhood.
Ryan Kelly
Won a title, married a Cowher, played for the Lakers, found his best basketball in Japan.
Mason Plumlee
The middle Plumlee. All three brothers won titles at Duke; he played thirteen NBA seasons.
Todd Zafirovski
His father arrived in Cleveland with $1,500 and no English. The son walked on at Duke and left with a ring.
Josh Hairston
The UNC fan who chose Duke and took the charges nobody else wanted. Now an agent at Klutch Sports.
Kyrie Irving
Eleven games at Duke. The Shot over Curry. Little Mountain is still climbing.
Tyler Thornton
Kyrie Irving's insurance plan stayed four years. Coach K: "He would not let us lose."
Quinn Cook
Four years. One ring. Two more in the NBA.
Michael Gbinije
Silent G. Barely played at Duke, starred for Boeheim in a Final Four, played for Nigeria in Rio.
Sean Kelly
Three years a manager, then a walk-on senior on the 2015 champions.
Austin Rivers
Doc's son. The Shot at Carolina. Eleven years proving he was more than a last name.
Rodney Hood
A left-handed stroke as smooth as anything in the ACC. Coach K's fourth transfer, then eight NBA seasons.
Amile Jefferson
150 games, the most in program history. A ring as a player in 2015, another as a Celtics assistant in 2024.
Alex Murphy
The first Duke recruit to skip his senior year of high school. Now playing for Finland.
Marshall Plumlee
The youngest brother. A ring, 29 NBA games, then Ranger school and Afghanistan.
Rasheed Sulaimon
His Duke career ended in a dismissal. Ten years and six countries later, he is still playing.
Semi Ojeleye
23 games at Duke. AAC Player of the Year at SMU. He guarded Giannis in the playoffs.
Nick Pagliuca
One minute in the 2015 Final Four. A national championship. Now Palantir.
Jabari Parker
The kid from the church gym. Two torn ACLs. Tears of gratitude in Barcelona.
Grayson Allen
The hero. The villain. The shooter. A $70 million redemption arc.
Tyus Jones
Hit the biggest shot of 2015.
Jahlil Okafor
One year. One ring. Then the NBA broke him.
Justise Winslow
The glue of the 2015 title team.