A lot has change since 1986. That was the year of the very first computer virus, Brain. Voyager II was at Uranus (it’s been going for 43 years now and is 11 billion miles from Earth). Pixar was founded that year. Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the world to the concept of Glasnost. And Mike Krzyzewski made his first trip to the Final Four.
To get there, the Blue Devils would have to get past Navy. The Middies were a major surprise but they had a rare talent in David Robinson.
Robinson literally came out of nowhere.