After the Blue Devils annihilated Kentucky in the season opener, a lot of people compared Duke’s freshmen to Michigan’s Fab Five last century (just made you feel old).
Time will tell which class was better but Duke already has one thing going for it that the Fab Five never had.
This article from ESPN talks about how Duke, from Coach K on down, realizes that this could be a special team but that it’s not there yet.
Compare that to the Michigan kids.
After Duke beat them in Ann Arbor and by 20 in the 1992 title game, the Wolverines came to Cameron the next fall talking about how Duke stole “their” championship.