How soon you younger guys forget or you just don't know Duke Basketball. Mike has always recruited both black and white players. This just happens to be his first all starting black lineup to win him a national title. The 98-99 team was an all black starting line-up featuring, Brand, Maggette, Langdon, Avery, and Battier. They went 37-2 and lost to Connecticut in the final.
The back to back 91-92 Championship teams started 3 black players all the time, only Laettner and Hurley were the 2 white starters.
Mike Dunleavy was the only white starter on the 2001 Championship Team.
His whitest Championship team was the 2010 team, where he started 3 most of the time, Singler, Scheyer, and Plumlee. Zoubek, Plumlee, and Kelly coming off the bench. I think this team spoiled us a little.
Coach K has always recruited white players and he always will, if they are there for the taking. Grayson Allen was the first to sign of this freshman class and Marshall Plumlee is nowhere in the same class as his two older brothers, Miles and Mason. He has 2 white players coming in next year.
More often than not Coach K has started more blacks than whites, so it shouldn't be all that surprising he has a predominately black team win a National Title.