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Wooden Watch: Zion Williamson worthy of all the hype

Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett are just the latest duo in college basketball to captivate a national audience.

During the 1973-74 season, Bill Walton and Jamaal Wilkes were both consensus All-Americans after combining to average 36.0 PPG. Michael Jordan (19.6 PPG) won the Wooden Award in 1984, the same season he played next to Sam Perkins (17.6 PPG, 9.6 RPG) at North Carolina. More recently, John Wall and Demarcus Cousins led Kentucky to the Elite Eight in 2010.

But the most comparable combination to the Williamson-Barrett experience is one that dominated the sport 20 years ago in the same program.