There was a time when Duke scheduled Davidson almost every season as, honestly, a tuneup, a glorified scrimmage.
And the truth is, they weren’t hard to beat. Then Bob McKillop showed up and things changed.
McKillop has been a superb coach for Davidson since arriving in 1989.
Or rather, returning: he was an assistant at Davidson in 1978-79. After that season, he returned to high school coaching, doing a phenomenal job at Long Island Lutheran.
Davidson hired him as head coach in 1989, and he has been there ever since, until Friday anyway, when he announced his retirement.