Originally Posted by
brevity
Karl Brown sighting! Later he tried out for a pro career... with the Denver Broncos.
I've been thinking a lot about that
1989-1990 Georgia Tech team ever since Amile Jefferson got injured. They got to the Final Four with six players on their roster (including two freshmen and two junior college transfers) getting 93% of the minutes. Granted, three of those six players averaged over 20 points a game each, and together they scored almost 78% of their team's points. But still, Six was Enough.
Bonus article
here about the non-lethal three of Brown, Malcolm Mackey, and Johnny McNeil, written just before their
9-point semifinal loss to UNLV. Maybe a game that needs to be discussed more, considering how its outcome wildly affected Duke history.
I stayed in the hotel with the Georgia Tech team in Denver for the Final Four that year. The fans were really nice and were pulling for Duke against Arkansas and UNLV.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013