Duke’s current efficiency is 38.15, the nation’s highest since the 2001 Blue Devils ended the season, with an NCAA championship, at 37.32. The only team with a higher KenPom efficiency at time of the year? Duke’s 1999 team that went 37-2 and finished with a 43.01 efficiency.

The Duke Blue Devils came up short of a sixth national championship in San Antonio this weekend, blowing a 14-point lead in the second half of a Final Four battle against Houston, but the KenPom efficiency rankings still respect how impressive Cooper Flagg and his teammates looked all season.

Duke's loss to Houston in the Final Four puts the talented Blue Devils on a list of elite teams that fell short in a run for the national championship.