Bubas wins it all in his first ACC Tournament

Part two of a look at Duke coaching newbies

Yesterday we looked at how Duke’s first-year men’s basketball coaches fared in their first ACC Tournament.

It was not a pretty picture. Bucky Waters, Neil McGeachy, Bill Foster and Mike Krzyzewski all lost their first tournament game. In fact, Foster and Krzyzewski didn’t win a tournament game until their fourth season at Duke.

But there’s an exception to every rule, they say, and the exception to this rule is an exceptional exception.

Nineteen-sixty wasn’t a memorable season for Duke basketball.

Until it was.