The 1991 Final Four was one of the greatest of all-time. It featured an epic semi-final game between Duke and undefeated UNLV and ended with Mike Krzyzewski winning the breakthrough national championship of his storied career. The 1991 Final Four also marked the arrival of Roy Williams, then the head coach at Kansas, and it […]
The 1991 Duke Blue Devils were a program that had arrived as a national power under head coach Mike Krzyzewski, but the last line on the resume remained incomplete. Duke reached the Final Four four of the previous five years, but had missed the ring each time, twice in the championship game. The previous year they’d taken the worst beating ever administered in an NCAA final, as UNLV hammered them 103-73.
This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1991 sports, a year that saw a new standard of excellence in the NFL, an unforgettable World Series and big basketball breakthroughs.