Duke has had some beautiful basketball teams over the years, but nothing really tops the 1991-92 group.
With a core of Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, Thomas Hill and Brian Davis, that team was the first to get back-to-back national championships since the Bill Walton era at UCLA.
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In this video, you get some idea of just how deadly it was, particularly in transition. You see Duke forcing multiple turnovers and getting out on the break where both Hills and Davis were deadly assets.
Duke was 66-9 in that two-year stretch, including the stunning win over UNLV in the 1991 semifinals and two wins over Michigan’s talented but immature Fab Five.
It’s really impossible to understand how teams from different eras might have competed against each other. The Bill Russell-led San Francisco teams were fantastic. UCLA with Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and then the Walton Gang teams a few years later were nearly unbeatable. What about UNC with Michael Jordan, James Worthy and Sam Perkins? That’s a load too.
The 1991-92 Duke teams could have competed with them and shared one thing that all the greatest teams have: an immense desire to win.
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