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Where are the stars of 2015 NCAA title game? Not where you might have expected. | Charlotte Observer

For a couple of minutes, the two men talked.

Soon the music would blare and the arena lights would dim and they, as they did three years ago, would have to go their separate ways. Fine. So be it. For now though, they could chat. Laugh. Reminisce, more than anything.

About three years ago, Frank Kaminsky and Jahlil Okafor met on a very different basketball court under very different circumstances. Rather than a half-enthused, half-empty crowd at the Spectrum Center, their first meeting was in front of a packed Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Dozens of stories were written about that game, the 2015 NCAA championship matchup between Okafor’s Duke Blue Devils and Kaminsky’s Wisconsin Badgers.