Vic Bubas always said that his 1966 team was his best. It didn’t win as many games as his 1963 team and did not advance as far as his 1964 team. But those teams went into Duke’s first two Final Fours hale and hearty and just lost to better teams.
Not so with the 1966 team. At least the hale and hearty part.
Some background. This was the first Duke team with five starters who would go on to play in the NBA and/or ABA. Mike Lewis was the center, a 6-7, 230-pounder from the unlikely locale of Missoula, Montana.