Former Duke players at the game

[DiehardDukeFan4Life]

At point during the game they showed Miles Plumlee on camera. Does anyone know if there were any other former Duke players at the game? Not counting the former Duke players on the coaching staff or the former Duke players that are analysts or announcers.

 

[dadecodevil]

Hairsten, Tyler Thornton, Zoubek, Melchionni, Battier, Dave Henderson, Nolan Smith, Dunleavy were all there. I may have missed some.

 

[dukiejay]

Nolan Smith
Tyler Thornton
Brian Zoubek
Todd Z. (not going to try and spell it....things are blurry now on my screen)
Josh Hairston

Obviously a lot who were working too. I'm sure there were more in a casual capacity as well.

 

[Gator Chef Al]

Sheldon williams and Christian laettner were also there. The coolest thing I saw, I was at the game, after the game Quinn Cook found Nolan Smith in the stands and they had about a 2-3 minute embrace where Quin was basically crying in his arms. Everyone that knows the story with that it was really cool to see.

 

[diehardDUKIEnKY]

I saw Josh, tyler, duhon, dockery, nolan, dunleavy, zoubek, plumlee, and grant hills dad calvin who was nice enough to take a photo with me. And those are just the ones that i walked by. Brother saw laettner, and jay will (duh) bilas as well (duh). Im almost 32 years old and i have no shame admitting this, i was absolutely star struck. Got to share it all with my wife live while my mom kept our infant overnight (duke pacifier, lol only one ive let him have on game night since the tourney started) . Im at dennys and on cloud nine.

 

[DiehardDukeFan4Life]

Originally posted by diehardDUKIEnKY:
I saw Josh, tyler, duhon, dockery, nolan, dunleavy, zoubek, plumlee, and grant hills dad calvin who was nice enough to take a photo with me. And those are just the ones that i walked by. Brother saw laettner, and jay will (duh) bilas as well (duh). Im almost 32 years old and i have no shame admitting this, i was absolutely star struck. Got to share it all with my wife live while my mom kept our infant overnight (duke pacifier, lol only one ive let him have on game night since the tourney started) . Im at dennys and on cloud nine.

I know how you feel. I'm 38 and I've seen a few players over the years. I saw Christian Laettner at the mall in Durham back in 1991 or 1992 (I was a freshman in high school and Laettner was a senior at Duke) and I took one of the "thank you for not smoking" cards off one of the tables in the food court and followed him to get his autograph but couldn't find a pen and eventually lost him in the mall. I also saw Jay Williams at the same mall while he was at Duke. During the summer after Quinn's freshman year and before Amile's freshman year I went to the NC ProAm with a friend and while I was there I saw Quinn and talked to him for about 30 seconds and I also saw Amile Jefferson and Seth Curry there but didn't get the chance to meet them. I was extremely star struck and in awe like you were.

 

[Laettner]

Great to hear all the old-time Blue Devils were there.