Contacted recently in Kernersville, former Duke basketball center Mike Lewis knew exactly what the caller wanted to talk about. Unfortunately.
“Surely, after 50 years, you’ve forgotten about that nightmare,” Lewis said with a laugh. “I haven’t been asked anything about that game in a while. I’ve pretty much put it out of my mind. Just about.”
Lewis was a participant on the losing end of what has become known in the half-century since as “The 12-10 Game.” Unranked and unheralded N.C. State employed stalling tactics to defeat No. 6-ranked and heavily favored Duke by that score in the ACC Tournament semifinals on March 8, 1968.