Lucy May!
Adam Lucas says it best:
The Mike Krzyzewski era is done and the Hubert Davis era is just beginning and I never want to forget this night, when the University of North Carolina beat Duke 81-77 in the Final Four. The Tar Heels are going to play for the national championship and right now I don’t even care, because behind me thousands of Tar Heel fans are still in the Super Dome dancing and laughing and crying and celebrating the most significant non-championship win in Carolina basketball history.
THE TEARS WERE THE MOST MEMORABLE PART OF SATURDAY’S WIN OVER DUKE.
This was painted as the most important game in the rivalry for both sides. But I will never, ever believe Duke feels it the way we do. For many of us this is something we live beginning at birth, but for many of them it was acquired after moving from somewhere else and sleeping in a tent. There is a connection between individual and team that is made in those pre-college years that can’t be replicated, and no amount of reading off a cheer sheet can duplicate it.
We are in Barcelona now, where I have Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday team meetings. I’m not sure Hubert’s letter carries the same weight over here, but you can bet I will be live in Spain at 3:20AM Tuesday morning.
Go Heels,
Dad
P.S. A rematch of the 1957 title game between the Tar Heels and the Jay Hawks. That was a triple-overtime victory for Carolina over a Kansas team led by the great Wilt Chamberlain. Such mutual respect between our two programs, going back literally to the beginning of the game. Phog Allen, was coached at KU by the inventor of basketball, James Naismith. Dean Smith played for and later coached under Coach Allen. Smith later recommended Roy Williams from his UNC staff for the Kansas job. Coach Williams was 418-101 (.805) at Kansas between 1988 and 2002 and took his teams to four Final Fours. At UNC, Roy was 485-163 (.748) and captured titles in 2005, 2009, and 2017.
