We missed this over the weekend, but Barry Jacobs reports that it wasn’t exactly as it sounded

Coach K, discussing the Olympic team and nailing some J’s!

If you follow Duke closely, or maybe not even that closely, you’ll recognize some things in these articles. Most K-esque touch: making hearing Marvin Gaye’s national anthem a regular part of business.

In 1977, there were three recruits who stood above all others. Gene Banks went to Duke, of course. Magic Johnson went to Michigan State and then on to immortality. The third guy? Albert King, who went to Maryland. As things turned out, basketball wasn’t his dream, and it was just a means to an end. What did Albert want? To own restaurants.

Being against recruiting eighth graders is like being against clubbing baby seals.  No one likes it.  Still, the more pressure, the better, so it’s good of Bob Lipper to pipe up on the subject.

Joe Alleva is getting started down in bayou country.  While a lot of Duke fans aren’t really sorry to see him go, judging  by our e-mail,  he still gets credit for the Carolina crack in this article.

Former Indiana professor and author Murray Sperber has been a fairly harsh critic of Indiana athletics and particularly basketball (and college sports in general).  He is somewhat kinder to IU at this point than we would have expected, frankly.

Frank Dascenzo makes the case for Carlos Boozer as an Olympian. Aside from his skills, he’s somewhat obscure, playing in Utah, and a lot of people may not realize who he is – or how good he is.

Although New Zealand still has to qualify, newly minted Kiwi Nick Horvath will play for his adopted country. If they qualify in Athens, he could come up against Coach K in a wholly unanticipated manner.

Here’s several recruiting updates, mostly ACC oriented, including a brief mention of Andre Dawkins.