DURHAM, N.C. — Few programs can rival Duke’s stunning ascension to the ranks of national powers over the past decade. In the fall of 2015, when D1Baseball unveiled its inaugural Top 100 Programs list, Duke was unranked. In the fall of 2024, the Blue Devils ranked No. 28. The only programs that made higher climbs out of the 2015 unranked heap are Tennessee (now No. 2) and Wake Forest (now No. 24) — and both of those programs had richer histories and better infrastructure in place than Duke had when Chris Pollard took over as Duke’s head coach in 2012.
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