It doesn't hurt that those Laettner-led Duke teams, love them or hate them, are among the most dominant teams in college basketball history. The 1992 Duke Blue Devils were back-to-back national champions, playing in the program's fifth straight Final Four, and capped off their season by thrashing Michigan in the title game.
Below, we take a look at some of the key contributors to that storied team, as well as where they went after that iconic game.
Christian Laettner was the Blue Devils leading scoring in 1992 as a senior and was the unanimous national player of the year.
Laettner was infamously chosen for the 1992 Olympics Dream Team over Shaquille ONeal. He entered the NBA in 1992, and played for over 10 seasons in the league and made the 1997 NBA All-Star game. Over 25 years later, he remains one of college basketball fans favorite players to hate ESPN even made a documentary called "I Hate Christian Laettner" in 2015. Nowadays, Laettner runs the Christian Laettner Basketball Academy and hosts camps for kids.
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Bobby Hurley was the Blue Devils starting point guard and an All-American.
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Hurley is now the head coach of the Arizona State mens basketball team, who won a First Four game to get into the field of 64 for the 2019 NCAA tournament. He also holds the NCAAs record for career assists.
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Grant Hill was one of the top scorers on the Blue Devils as a sophomore. He also threw the inbounds pass that led to Laettners iconic shot against Kentucky.
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Hill graduated from Duke in 1994 and went on to become an NBA superstar for several years until injuries derailed his career. He currently works for NBA TV, is a partial owner of the Atlanta Hawks, and maintains a substantial art collection. He was recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Thomas Hill was the second-leading scorer and a third-team All-ACC player for the 92 Blue Devils.
Since the end of Hills playing days, he has gravitated towards education and mentoring young athletes, and now coaches at Avenues World School in New York City.
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Brian Davis was a senior who played over a thousand minutes for the 92 Blue Devils, as well as a close friend of Laettner.
Davis remains close with Laettner, and the pair have gone into a number of business ventures together, albeit with mixed success.
Antonio Lang was a sophomore on the 92 Blue Devils.
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Lang played in the NBA for a period before spending time in Japan as a professional player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach for fellow Duke alumnus Quin Snyder and the Utah Jazz.
Cherokee Parks was a highly touted high school basketball player who joined this loaded Blue Devils squad as a freshman.
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Parks graduated from Duke in 1995 and was drafted into the NBA in the first round, but was a journeyman for most of his career. He recently joined the NBAs Basketball Operations Associate Program. He also founded the Apex Basketball Academy, an international camp for kids.
Coach K had already been the coach of the Blue Devils for over a decade, and led the program to its first national title the year prior.
Coach K is still the head coach at Duke and in 2019, brings one of his most talented teams ever into the NCAA tournament as the top-ranked team in the field. He also served as head coach of the USA basketball team, which he led to three straight Olympics gold medals from 2008 to 2016.
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Tommy Amaker was an assistant coach for Duke, having previously been a player for the Blue Devils during the 80s.
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Amaker is currently the head coach of the Harvard mens basketball team, after previous stints as the head coach at Seton Hall and Michigan.
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Mike Brey was an assistant coach for the 92 Blue Devils, having joined Coach Ks staff in 1987.
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Brey has been the head coach of the Notre Dame mens basketball team since 2000, and is currently second on the programs all-time wins list.
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Another former Duke player, Jay Bilas was an assistant coach for the Blue Devils, as well as a student at Duke Law School.
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Jay Bilas currently serves as college basketball analyst for ESPN and is also an attorney with a law firm in Charlotte.
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