Former Duke great Kenny Dennard posted a link to this story on his Facebook page and it’s one of the best stories ever written about Duke basketball.
It’s the Sports Illustrated cover story from 1978 after Duke won its first ACC tournament since Vic Bubas coached Duke to the title in 1966.
We’ve never forgotten the first line because it was brilliant and infuriating: “Duke. Now there’s a proud but forgotten name.“
Well it wasn’t forgotten in the Triangle where Cameron continued to be Cameron despite the losing of the early ‘70s. The Crazies (before they were Crazies) couldn’t count on winning so they were a lot more surly than we see today and games were a combination of defiant losing and vicious needling.