August 10, 2001

Duke U. Begins Effort to Keep Basketball Players From Turning Pro Without Their Degrees

By WELCH SUGGS

Duke University's men's basketball team has found a solution to the problem of players quitting college for the National Basketball Association draft:

Get them their degrees faster.

All the players have to do is stay in class year-round for three years, after which time they will have enough credits to graduate.

Duke was one of the last major basketball teams to begin losing underclassmen to the millions of dollars available in the N.B.A. In the spring of 1999, the

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