Originally Posted by
jimsumner
"Next season Duke is going to have three guys who played HS ball in NC, which I'm sure is not a record, but it's the most I can remember. And just in case it is a record, Seth Curry will break it in 2010. "
In the middle 1940s Duke had four players off the same legendary Durham High School team, Gordon Carver, Bob Gantt, and brothers Cedric and Garland Loftis.
The 1957 team had five NC natives; Richard Rosenthal from Durham, Ed Bryson from Durham, Bobby Joe Harris from King, Hayes Clement from New Bern, and Bucky Allen from Durham. The 1958 team added Jerry Robertson from Burlington and Larry Bateman from Greensboro and subtracted Rosenthal and Bryson. So, five for 1958.
The 1959 team also had five North Carolinians; Robertson, Bateman, Allen, Harris, and Clement.
During the Bubas tenure, three seems to be the ceiling.
Bucky Waters' first Duke team--1970- had four; Randy Denton from Raleigh, Brad Evans and Stuart Yarborough from Durham (different high schools), and Tim Teer from Hillsborough. The 1971 team added walk-on Judge Carr from Durham and lost Teer.
I don't have the data base to examine the pre-ACC years but inasmuch as Duke was a more regional/local university than is presently the case, I suspect some of the earlier Duke/Trinity teams had more than five North Carolinians. But five seems to be the ACC peak.
Note that the Plumlees are all natives of Indiana, although they prepped in NC. Might require an asterisk.