In 1978, Duke was good but no favorite to win the ACC Tournament. They did that though and after surviving Rhode Island in the first game 63-62, got past Penn in the next game, 84-80.
Next up was Villanova and Wildcats coach Bob Weinhauer made a classic mistake: he insulted his opponent, calling Duke “a bunch of elephants” and insinuating Duke couldn’t run.
Well they could run and ended up running Villanova out of the gym in a complete joy ride of a game.
The high point of that game was a Kenny Dennard dunk: he got loose on a break (what else?