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College Basketball: Duke Thomas Hill (12) in action vs Michigan. Durham, NC 12/5/1992 CREDIT: Bob Donnan (Photo by Bob Donnan /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) (Set Number: X43742 TK2 R5 F24 )
One of the best games we’ve ever seen in Cameron was when #1 Michigan visited in 1992. That spring, the teams had met in the NCAA championship game and Duke beat the Fab Five by 20, 71-51.
This game was a ton of fun, not least of all because the Fab Five had been woofing about the championship Duke “stole” in the spring.
Duke fans knew that was just red meat for Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, Thomas Hill and the rest of the Blue Devils, who had just about had enough of the nonsense from the Fab Five. As Hurley has pointed out from time to time, they never actually won anything – no conference titles, no national titles, nothing.
So Duke fans knew exactly what Michigan was about to run into and boy was Cameron ready for that.
Michigan got its third lesson in humility that day and would get a fourth a few months later, at the hands of UNC in another championship failure.
It took years, but eventually, most of the Fab Five admitted that Duke was a very good team, with and without Christian Laettner (he had graduated in the spring and didn’t play in this game obviously), but they still haven’t entirely come to terms with losing to Duke in Ann Arbor, in Minneapolis and finally in Cameron.
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