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Why are so many Duke basketball players white?

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Not including walk-ons (or players who were given a leftover scholarship who had previously been walk-ons), Duke had two white players (Marshall Plumlee and Alex Murphy) in the 2013-14 season, and one of those transferred halfway through the season. read more

Next season, Duke will add one more white player (Grayson Allen), for a grand total of two. All of this doesn't mean that Duke hasn't had teams that featured a lot of white players. The 2009-10 championship team had Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler, Ryan Kelly, Miles and Mason Plumlee and Brian Zoubek. read more

Hill also observed that most of the fans doing the booing when Duke came to town seemed to share the same skin color (white) as some of the players on Duke, calling it "white on white hate." Christian Laettner (top) and Grant Hill help Duke win back-to-back national titles in the '90s. read more

Former Duke star forward Grant Hill has called it “white on white hate,” as white fans dislike good players because they don’t look like prototypical basketball stars. Duke fans aren’t part of the team, but they haven’t helped the school’s reputation around college basketball. read more

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