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You
either hate Duke, or you really hate Duke.
Either
way, No. 1 Duke shut down No. 2 Alabama, 85-65, advancing to their 18th Final
Four, the first under coach Jon Scheyer.
Jon
Scheyer is the eighth person to ever play and coach in a Final Four (Vic
Bubas, Hubert Davis, Billy Donovan, Dick Harp, Bob Knight, Bones McKinney and
Dean Smith). Scheyer is only the third person to play and coach in the Final
Four for the same school: Hubert Davis at North Carolina, Dick Harp at
Kansas.
Hubert
Davis is UNC's current coach. Although UNC has 7 national championships, none
were during the Hubert Davis eras (player 1988-92; coach 2021-present).
Dick
Harp was Kansas's third coach from 1956-1964. He followed James Naismith
(inventor of the game of basketball) and Phog Allen as head coach. Harp
played for Phog Allen from 1937-1940. Although Harp made the National
Championship game as a starting guard in 1940, Kansas lost to Indiana, 60-42,
in the title game.
 As a coach,
Harp got to coach Wilt Chamberlain. In Wilt's
first varsity game, Chamberlain scored 52 points and grabbed 31 rebounds,
breaking both all-time college records in an 87-69 win against Northwestern.
In 1957, he led the Jayhawks to the championship game against North Carolina.
UNC triple-teamed Chamberlain and, as a result, KU was defeated 54-53 in
triple overtime. The game is considered one of the greatest in NCAA
championship history. UNC had to survive a triple-overtime game in the
semi-final game against Michigan State to get to the championship game.
The
1957 Tournament had to be bonkers!!!
I
wonder if those games were on TBS or TruTV.
Regardless,
Scheyer played at Duke from 2006-2010. In 2010, Scheyer averaged 18.2 points
per game and set an ACC single-season record for minutes played (1470) on
Duke's way to winning a National Championship.
If
Duke wins the National Championship this year, it will be the first time
someone won the National Championship as a player and coach for the same
school.
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