Every once in a while it becomes clear that 1986 was a long time ago.
In 1986, Mike Krzyzewski got Duke to the Final Four for the first time in his career and the fifth in Duke’s history.
Dick Vitale was still a fairly recent ESPN employee, having arrived there the year before Coach K got to Duke, and as you’ll see in this 1986 tournament preview, he was still playing it pretty straight (although the Vitale-isms were starting to creep in).
Bob Ley was using a physical pointer to to point out the matchups; there were no slick graphics.