Fresh off Saturday night’s 81-58 NCAA Tournament Round of 32 win over the TCU Horned Frogs in Greenville, S.C., fourth-year head coach Jon Scheyer and his No. 1 overall seed Duke basketball squad are now gearing up for a trip to Washington, D.C., where the Blue Devils face Rick Pitino’s No. 5 seed St. John’s Red Storm at the Sweet 16 in Capital One Arena at 7:10 p.m. ET Friday (CBS).

And should Duke prevail in that highly anticipated bout, the 2025-26 Blue Devils (now 34-2 overall) would join forces with the 2024-25 edition to set a new program record for the most victories across any two-season span. As noted in the following “Coach Scheyer appreciation post” courtesy of the squad’s official social media account on Monday afternoon, those two teams’ current combined total of 69 wins matches that of now-retired legend Mike Krzyzewski’s 1997-98 and 1998-99 units.

Plus, it’s worth pointing out that the victories over these past two seasons are already two more than the 2009-10 Blue Devils, featuring Scheyer as the starting point guard and winners of Duke’s fourth of now-five national championships, and the 2010-11 team combined to produce.

Last season’s Final Four bunch ended up 35-4 overall. As for the 1997-98 and 1998-99 collections, they finished 32-4 (reached the Elite Eight) and 37-2 (lost in the national championship game), respectively. The 1998-1999 and 1985-86 teams are still tied for the Duke basketball single-season wins record, but the 2025-26 Blue Devils still have a shot to break that record if they wind up capturing the program’s sixth national title.