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YouTube Gold: Duke-Clemson 1998

In 1995, Rick Barnes brought his first Clemson team to Durham and beat Duke and an exhausted, seriously ill Mike Krzyzewski. After that game, he took a leave of absence and sat the rest of the year out.

Famously, Barnes told his team not to celebrate after they won because they felt they should.

Fast forward to 1998.

Duke had recovered from the collapse of 1995-96 and had a very good team. They were ranked #2 when Clemson came to town and featured Trajan Langdon, Roshown McLeod, Steve Wojciechowski, Chris Carrawell and freshmen Elton Brand and Shane Battier.