03/26/1994 NCAA SE Regional Final: #2 Duke Blue Devils vs. #1 Purdue Boilermakers

[@rashb]

The difference between Grant and Robinson is about the same as the difference between Lebron and Carmelo. Both are great but Grant is way more well-rounded. He really made it hard for Big Dawg to find his groove, meanwhile completely controlled the flow of the game on offense. Hill's court vision and playmaking was outstanding.

[@timsmith1033]

great comparison!! hill was LeBron before LeBron & big dog dog was a less talented, less athletic version of Melo.

[@rashb]

timsmith1033 Thank you. It's awesome to hear someone else say he was Lebron before Lebron because it's 100% accurate. People that only saw Grant post injury would never believe this. Spot on Big Dog assessment.

[@vincentgirardi401]

Robinson was an absolute beast at Purdue. This was a complete team effort by Duke. Hill was the glue though. Covered up a lot. I thought this was a great coaching job by K, they came within a minute of a 3rd title in 4 yrs against a superior Arkansas squad in the finals.

[@To15n25]

Funny....Kansas vs Purdue the game before this Duke game.....Glenn Robinson scored exactly 30 points in the FIRST HALF.....THE FIRST HALF

[@careywilkinson3012]

This might be the best of these old uploads I’ve seen. The resolution and timing on cutting out the commercials were both top notch. I also enjoyed the nostalgia of keeping the studio segments. Well done.

[@Nyk184]

Not a duke fan, but always been a Grant Hill fan. One of my alltime favorites college and pro

[@capitanfuturo594]

UNC SUCKS 🤣

[@broaddusmarines]

This same Duke team could not win a game to save their lives the following year without Grant Hill. Grant Hill is the greatest player in Duke history. Yeah.....I said it.

[@charlesgreen8703]

I agree with you about Grant being the best player in Duke history...but you do have to understand that the following year they had lost A LOT from this team due to graduation... Hill,Lang,and Clark were all gone...and were without Coach K due to a severe back problem most of that season,before he took a leave of absence they were a top 10 team...and they lost a lot of close games many by less than 10 points...most famously the Double Overtime Game against UNC...it wasn’t that they didn’t have talent,they did...but without Coach K there things just didn’t go well...had Coach K been there,they might have made another final four run...YES Coaches like Coach K do make that big a difference...

[@Seth_Himself97]

If we would've had a better idea at the time how great Grant Hill was, Duke beating UNLV in '91 wouldn't be viewed as that big of an upset.

[@bradlewis6514]

​​@@Seth_Himself97thing is Gavin he was a Top 15-20 recruit nationally from the Class of '90 but several guys above him got more cred and because Grant meshed in at Duke as opposed to him going somewhere else, he wouldn't have been as overlooked! He was without a doubt the difference between Duke '90 being annihilated by Vegas then circa '91 when Duke got their payback! But what people also forget so often in this conversation is that without their leadership and do everything guys David Butler and Moses Scurry in '91, Vegas was a completely different and less deep of a team! And also remember Vegas was rarely and I mean rarely tested late in games in '91! They didn't know how to respond to a direct punch in the mouth down the stretch and Duke showed throughout that entire semifinal ('91) they were gonna counterpunch

[@bradlewis6514]

​@@Seth_Himself97it was my senior year in HS ('90) when Duke got boatraced in the championship game and at that point I never thought my Dukies would ever win it! Had been a fan since '81-'82

[@bradlewis6514]

​​​@@Seth_Himself97looking very forward 2 cing how Scheyer follows up his opening of a crescendo first season as his encore! With the group he has returning, plus the newcomers, the FF is a serious possibility! Duke is in superb hands, no question!

[@Game6Sports]

I'm sitting here watching this video and just realized how blessed I am to be able to say I played against everyone on this court! Wow I was once a legit college athlete!

[@walterlv01]

Cuonzo Martin playing for Purdue here in the arena he is now the head coach in at Tennessee. Also Jeff Capel (former OU head coach) and Chris Collins (current Northwestern coach) in this game.

[@pylegomer6367]

Grant Hill was such a great player! Whoa! And I remember this intro and thinking it was hilarious and it still is! Krewzoowooski!!!

[@vincentgirardi401]

7th final 4 in 9 yrs. this was the last time coach K beat a higher seeded team in the tournament

[@bradlewis6514]

​​@@vincentgirardi401 very hard to believe, but it was until the 2015 championship game and what I mean is although Duke and Wisconsin were both 1's, Wisconsin was the overall higher #1! On the other hand, I'll gladly take the three added national championships since! Maybe get one more, MAYBE! '94 though K's best coaching job! He got the complete maximum out of that group throughout the tournament! I'm as proud, if not more, of that team compared to any of our national titles!

[@nowhereman4319]

@@bradlewis6514 not really 20/28 of those years they where a 1 or 2 seed... and 1 was canceled due to covid and the other was missed in 2021

[@bradlewis6514]

​​@@nowhereman4319I think what Vincent meant was in years Duke made Final Four appearances and he is right! Duke didn't beat a higher seed after this ('94) in years they advanced to the FF until they beat Wisconsin in 2015! Yes Duke was a 1 seed but Wisconsin was seeded as a higher #1! It was Kentucky, then Wisconsin and then Duke!

[@bradlewis6514]

​@@nowhereman4319now although the 2001 team didn't beat a 1 and they were my favorite Duke team, the combination of Maryland and Arizona was the best Duke ever beat at a FF/ and or win it all! Because that Arizona team very easily could have been a 1 seed and they were the best team Duke faced that season

[@webking185]

glen robinson was the man in this tourney...he was the guard, pf, center. grant hill challenged him...thanks for the upload

[@shaobaijiang8573]

Glad you are back to upload classic games!!! Thanks for sharing~~

[@thacozzman89]

Yes...I have some other Duke games from that year (vs. Michigan State, Marquette and Florida) and I do have the 1994 NCAA Selection Show.

[@herbertstory812]

One of my favorite DUKE wins ever

[@damienkirksey7026]

Boo

[@bradlewis6514]

Agreed and not just that one either! It maybe the standard of all Coach K coaching jobs! Grant Hill's level, and for at least those three weeks, lifted the work ethic and effort of that entire team! I've been a die-hard Duke fan since the 1981-82 season and to say that the '94 teams' miraculous run was anything less than an overachieve would be an understatement! Besides our five national championships, I've never been more prouder of any other of our squads than 1994! Still proud of them to this very day!

[@mesube22]

As a North Carolina fan. I loved Grant HIll. Top 10 best SF ever. So great and would have been carried to the Hall of fame on a float.

[@timsmith1033]

been watching basketball since 82 and talent wise this maybe the worst Duke team I've seen but the greatness of hill & his outstanding overall game was able to compensate for everything Duke lacked. this is a perfect example of why hill was so such a great player. we only got prime hill for 6 years but how he was able to reinvent himself after the injuries & reinvent himself into a effective defensive stopper/point forward. that's still enough for me to call him one of the 10 greatest sf's ever.

[@timsmith1033]

thanks Grant hill is still my favorite all time player. he was just so smooth & played so smart. he could have put up more scoring numbers but knew it wasn't necessarily the best for the team. he knew in order to win he needed to elevate his teammates & did so with his tremendous rebounding, passing, defense & picking his spots offensively.

[@darrylchristy7576]

Nah, it was all Cherokee Parks

[@che1925]

They couldn't go but 8 players, but they were a tough "team." I wonder how good they would have been with Billy McCaffery.

[@charlesblackwood1215]

Billy McCaffrey was in the class of 93.

[@charlesblackwood1215]

this team had chemistry and they knew which way their water was flowing. probably why they finshed first in the ACC regular season

[@lawrencejackson3160]

Big dog Robinson was the best college scorer I ever watched live. He use to kill my fab 5 and the rest of the Big 10.

[@michaelparker6240]

Grant hill would have been a top 15 player ever I'd it wasnt for injury he was a 24 6 and 5 guy and could guard 4 positions.. dude was beyond special

[@creydadj]

Rick Pitino without gray hair

[@thacozzman89]

Thanks and I will upload them as soon as I get a chance.

[@anthonylennen4067]

I was at this game! When Duke took that t/o after PU went up 10, K spent the entire t/o almost at mid-court staring down the refs. He never went in the huddle. The game turned totally after that. Someone else mentioned that Collins and Martin now coach NW and Cal respectively. Capel is an assistant at Duke again and Brandon Brantley is now an assistant at PU and Linc Darner is the coach at Wisky Green Bay. Pretty amazing. Oh, and Matt Waddell is NOT a stiff. He was a really good player and also went to pharmacy school and i think is now an exec with Lilly.

[@thacozzman89]

Yeah...I've been meaning to get the games where he was dominant in that tournament (being that I didn't officially start watching the Tournament until two years later)

[@vivahernando1]

Purdue is such a choker program

[@marcus.6487]

eye respeck duke, but grant hill was tha ONLY reazon eye watch’t dem dudes that mane was cold

[@paulevereklian]

yeah can upload those soon I would love to see those

[@StevenAbitante]

This Game Featured the 2 Premiere Prospects of the 1994 NBA DRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!! GLENN ROBINSON & GRANT HILL CREATED ONE OF THE BEST NCAA TOURNAMENT GAMES IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL HISTORY!

[@staguilar2242]

Took at least a decade before truth came out - Robinson was injured before the game

[@Ksnake]

would u upload all those plus any other NCAA Selection shows plus u are doing a good job keep up the good work!!

[@thacozzman89]

I ripped the DVD onto KZbin, then go to KZbin video editor, put the "VTS_01_1-VTS_01_4 or VTS_01_5" all together and bam! - It gets published!!!

[@jaylee7072]

1:13:48 Just sick.

[@KeithCarey33]

Sweet. Then Purdue makes another stupid mistake. Missed 3 pointers and a collective low IQ = Duke win.

[@generationll]

Gene Keady- 25 at Purdue & no final fours.During that same time down state rival Indiana went to 3 final fours in 1981,87 & 82

[@generationll]

+generationll And Matt Painter has followed in that tradition

[@matthewclinkenbeard4950]

Sorry...IU was not in final four in 82...

[@sickofguysnamedtodd2293]

IU was 92

[@mongoslade277]

So......

[@thacozzman89]

I know...I've been out of town for the past few days...I'm back now!

[@00001Rob]

I've visited to watch Grant Hill because of Jabari Parker

[@CoreyT127]

Back when all the dudes rocked just mustaches. Everybody shaved they're chins.

[@thacozzman89]

Most definitely.

[@TheWakeup011]

Great upload.....GR was killing in this tourney, before they faced Duke......got any games from 1999?

[@Ksnake]

do u happen to have anymore Ncaa tournament games from 1994 and/or selection show

[@mightymacdiesal12]

Seems like Purdue was tight mostly all game. Like they were playing Duke’s legacy rather than the team on the court. Purdue had the better team, but Duke was Duke. Again.

[@shaobaijiang8573]

BTW, how you edit these parts together to upload? I just got a DVD game that 98 Duke VS Syracuse...

[@natr3980]

Crazy that Cuonzo Martin coached Tennessee less than 20 yrs later

[@americanpatriot7233]

glad ed hightower wasnt officiating this game.he made bad calls against duke for years in the tournament.

[@mongoslade277]

Smh. YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING. Referees GAVE Duke at least 2 of their championships

[@mongoslade277]

It's like "TvTeddy Valentine" is on the Duke payroll 😆

[@americanpatriot7233]

@@mongoslade277 the duke vs west virginia final four game from 2010 proves the refs dont favor duke,. along with all their final fours in 86.88 and 89 , im sure when duke makes the final four people like mongo will be blaming the refs

[@americanpatriot7233]

@@mongoslade277 to this day ed whightower has made the worst foul call ive ever seen on laettner in the 89 final four giving laettner his 5th foul

[@trickhotspot9452]

Grant hill carried these flops!!

[@adrianwalsh3202]

thats my team mr duke blue demons

[@vincentgirardi401]

Watching Capel in this game it’s surprising he never really became a star.

[@georgereeves5894]

Grant Hill my ninja

[@WeFreestyleForever]

1:10:13 Bullshit ass foul. That's how teams lose games.

[@JZ2001JC]

You have the 2010 Butler vs Duke National Championship Game?

[@JoeKnows44]

One of those games that always seemed fishy. Officiated differently than every other game that season. Duke shoots 26 free throws, Purdue, 5.

[@thacozzman89]

No, I don't.

[@andyraphael]

One and done destroyed college basketball 🏀

[@stevenabitante8750]

Grant Hill Should've been 1st pick & Meanwhile BIGDOG GLENN ROBINSON WAS DEMANDING IT & A CONTRACT BEFORE THE DRAFT HAD STARTED!

[@To15n25]

LoL...Why? Did you watch Robinson score 30 pts per game all year? I bet you didn't see the Kansas vs Purdue game before this Duke game. Robinson scored how many in the first half? Yeah he scored his average 30...30.....in THE FIRST HALF!

[@thediehardarkansasrazorbak7288]

But he didn't beat my Hogs!!!!

[@gcuddy7991]

Nope. The fact that Grant Hill all but carried this Duke team (albeit they did deliver for him against Purdue) to the Championship game was a miracle in itself. It took a Scotty Thurman prayer to beat them when Arkansas was obviously way more talented. GH had nine turnovers and we still only lost by 2. No Hurley, Laettner , Davis, Hill, or McCaffery on this 94 team. Yup I can live with it.

[@bradlewis6514]

@@gcuddy7991 me as well! It was the biggest overachieve of any Duke team since I've been a die-hard fan (1981-82)! I'm probably as proud of that teams' remarkable run as I am of any of our championships!

[@bradlewis6514]

@@gcuddy7991 Jeff Capel, Antonio Lang on both ends and Cherokee Parks all had outer body experiences during that March journey! Hill's consistent effort finally rubbed off on them at the right time! It was the best basketball those three played while in a Duke uniform! Lang could always defend, but he contributed offensively at a better clip during that '94 Madness!

[@gcuddy7991]

@@bradlewis6514 100% right. That team was an overachiever. So proud of them

[@bradlewis6514]

@@gcuddy7991 G, I vividly remember exactly where I was and all who were watching this game with me! I was a 22-yr old third semester junior at Western Carolina and most of my fellow Sigma Chi brothers at the time were Tar Hole fans and just a few of us Duke backers mixed in! The fact Carolina had been eliminated already, knowing down the stretch when our win was inevitable, made this all the more sweeter surrounded by (UGH!) fans of the more conceited and self-absorbed shade of blue!