Appreciate it pisgah. Those numbers are really eye-opening with the 14 in that time frame. And don’t forget Duke was on the cats whisker of winning it in 2004. I believe they had about an eight point lead on Maryland down the stretch in the final and the Terps stormed back and sent it to overtime and beat Duke. That would have been Duke’s sixth consecutive ACC tournament championship had they won. That was a painful one to lose. And they lost it in similar fashion the way they lost the UConn game at the final four having a late lead, but couldn’t close.
One of the more gracious gestures I’ve ever seen from Gary Williams was after that 2004 ACC Final as he pointed to Duke’s five in a row coming into that game and he said what a great achievement that was, and that he felt that it deserved to be recognized/talked about more than it had. Was really surprising from Gary.
