From time to time on BTP, we old timers will wax nostalgic on the heady days long past when Pack basketball stood as tall as any program in the nation. It was not a short-term affair – not a brief moment in the sun when everything fell into place for an exceptional recruiting class or a magical season – but a four-decades-long run, covering most of the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Sprinkled throughout this period were national championships, Final Fours, Elite Eights, ACC championships, All-Americans, Top 10 rankings, historic games of coast-to-coast prominence against phenomenal opponents . .
When we were kings
