How Mark Mitchell Got To Wear Art Heyman’s #25

College Basketball: NCAA Final Four: Duke Art Heyman (25) during game vs UCLA at Municipal Auditorium. Kansas City, MO 3/21/1964Before Mike Krzyzewski arrived at Duke and transformed the program into an annual national power, the late Art Heyman defined the program’s high point.

He was a very different sort of a player than what we’re used to today. At 6-5, he was essentially a power forward, someone who could just bully his way inside. That’s not something you see often anymore. He was also a real bon vivant who loved living it up. His personality really defined the early Bubas era: fun loving and high powered.

He, more than anyone, is responsible for the intensity of the Duke-UNC rivalry.…