September
2007
Dean Smith vs. Coach K
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Loading ...I was just flipping randomly through some of our upper cable channels and came across a blast from the past. We get this “ESPN Classic Sports” channel (the only ESPN channel we get) that shows old games from years ago. I can barely muster the interest to watch live sports, so you can imagine how useful this channel is to me.
Imagine my surprise to see a UNC vs. Duke ACC game from 1995! What’s funny is that there’s only a small window from 1995 to about 2000 where I followed ACC basketball enough to recognize any players’ names. I knew all these guys!
Jeff Capel takes a free throw.
Stackhouse dunks.
After a little research (googling “unc duke 1995 basketball”), I can only assume that I’m watching this game from February 2, 1995. I haven’t actually seen Coach K yet, so it must be.
Sittin’ here in Spain, watching the tarheels and the blue devils. Crazy, huh?
Erik R.
This is a famous game that went to double OT I believe after Jeff Capel knocked down a half court shot when Serge Zwikker failed to put it away at the line. Also if memory serves me right, Coach K was out this season due to health reasons as Duke had a terrible season. That’s part of the reason it was so surprising Duke was able to hang with the #1 or 2 ranked Heels.
I knew that someone, probably you, would know about that. Either you have an incredible memory, or you have a talent of paraphrasing Wikipedia that most high school students would pay you for. From Wikipedia:
Thanks for that.
That is pretty cool, and I did not look it up on Wiki or anything else beforehand…it’s just one of those games you don’t forget about…