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The Story Behind Grant Hill’s Notorious 1991 Final Four Haircut

For a lot of Duke fans, the Grant Hill alley-top in the 1991 title game against Kansas is iconic. It’s something you can watch again and again: Bobby Hurley threw the pass far too high...but Hill just went up and got it. Billy Packer was amazed.

The rest of us can watch it over and over again, but Grant?

As you may have seen or possibly remember, he had a terrible haircut which he got in Durham.

To make things worse, Mike Krzyzewski explicitly told his team not to anything crazy: “[Coach K] said before the game, look, I don’t want y’all doing anything crazy, like going bald or do something different than you would normally do.