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If you mean Duke University by "the Dukes," they were known as Trinity College when they first began playing intercollegiate athletics. The school competed as "Trinity" for many years in Basketball before changing its name to Duke.

If you meant Duquesne University, which calls itself the Dukes, they had already adopted the name Duquesne three years before they first played basketball, in 1914.

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