Here Comes Duke: The Drive for Five: The Official Men's Basketball Championship Book of Duke Athletics
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Here Comes Duke - Duke Athletics
SEASON IN REVIEW
ADAPTABILITY KEYS DUKE’S TITLE RUN
By John Roth
Amile Jefferson (left) and Justise Winslow (right), surrounded by teammates, friends and family, await their NCAA seeding fate on Selection Sunday. Duke learned that it would play as a No. 1 seed for the 13th time in program history later that afternoon. (Raashid Yassin/Duke Blue Planet)
Mike Krzyzewski paused just inside the locker room door to absorb the scene unfolding before him, his Blue Devils a boisterous bundle of elation, excitement, emotion. Quinn Cook, their de facto elder statesman, wedged his way into the middle of the black-and-blue, sweat-drenched uniforms and raised his voice to be heard above the celebration.
Duke is never the underdog,
he barked as his teammates clustered even tighter around him. Hey, look, look — family on three. One, two, three — FAMILY.
Krzyzewski soaked in this unifying moment, the beaming smile of a proud parent enveloping his countenance. The Hall of Fame eyes that had witnessed almost a thousand college basketball victories and countless locker room huddles gleamed with the euphoria of both triumph and togetherness — and what they might portend for the journey ahead. It was a face nobody saw, but a face that visually articulated the thought Krzyzewski would verbally express months later about that night: We knew getting on the bus to go to the plane that this could be a real special group.
No one would have been shocked if Duke had fallen to Wisconsin on that bone-chilling December night in Madison. The Badgers were an established veteran team, ranked No. 2 in the country and coming off a Final Four season. They featured a dynamic 7-footer in Frank Kaminsky, who would become the consensus national player of the year, and they were hosting the Blue Devils in their rambunctious Kohl Center, where their winning percentage stood on par with Duke’s at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke was also highly ranked at No. 4 in the polls, obviously talented but considerably less experienced. Krzyzewski was starting three freshmen who were playing in their first true road contest, and his returnees were coming off a season in which they’d fallen to Mercer in their NCAA Tournament