Almost 30 years later, Kevin Houston remembers the afternoon vividly. He was a West Point senior, the captain of the Army basketball team. He was also the leading scorer in the nation.
Every day in practice, he found himself matched up against Mark Clouse, a freshman from Cincinnati, who had become a solid player off the bench for coach Les Wohtke's team – someone who could play good defense and consistently make an open shot.
"Kevin was double-teamed all the time," Clouse says with a smile on a hot summer afternoon in Morristown, N.J., a stone's throw from Mendham, his home base for the last six years.