Maybe as much as anyone, Jay Bilas has earned the right to comment on the Duke-Carolina rivalry.
One of Mike Krzyzewski’s early recruits at Duke, Bilas picked Duke over Syracuse and others, although he said once that his mother was pushing for Stanford.
But he chose Duke when Coach K asked him to recommend a restaurant in LA when he was on a recruiting trip. If we remember correctly, Bilas wrote that “it’s probably not as important but I’m coming to Duke.”
Or words to that effect.
He was a powerful if undersized center and signed on faith alone because in his freshman year, Duke was just bad.