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Lucas: Lights Out

By Adam Lucas

Let us go back to the beginning.

Now, full disclosure: we are going back to the beginning partially because it is too painful to write about the most recent one. Saturday night was an 87-67 Duke victory. So, you know, let us go back to the beginning.

At the beginning, Mike Krzyzewski was a completely unknown whippersnapper who had been the coach at Army. His very first visit to Carmichael Auditorium came at the conclusion of the 1981-82 regular season, when Carolina was loaded.

A minute and a half after tipoff, the Carmichael power failed.