Some of this Duke basketball fan’s favorite memories from the teenage years fell on the days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day each year.
My family always took a vacation to Myrtle Beach that week, which happened to coincide with one of the granddaddies of high school holiday basketball tournaments:
At the 1995 event, I was fortunate enough to watch a Lower Merion High School senior drop 43 points in a game. You might know the name of the guy who wowed me with his basketball brilliance that night: