Cameron Hall was the first foreign-born player I can remember at Duke. He was from Ontario. Hall was 6-9 and a member of the same class as Jim Spanarkel, Harold Morrison, Steve Gray and Scott Goetsch. Hall was a promising prospect but had chronic back problems and dropped off the team in the middle of the 1977-'78 season, apparently lacking the powers of prognostication.

I don't know what kind of swag that 1978 team got at the Final Four, but it could have been yours, Cameron Hall.

Foster signed an Italian forward named Marco Bonamico. He was in the same class as Mike Gminski. But for reasons too complicated to explain here, he never showed up at Duke. Gminski told me once that he had never even met Bonamico. But Bonamico was good enough to play for Italy in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.

And of course K signed Dan Meagher and Greg Newton, both of whom prepped in Canada.

Christian Ast (Germany) is another non-American who played high-school ball in the U.S. before going to Duke.