Louisville head coach Rick Pitino compares this season’s Duke team to his 1996 national championship team at Kentucky.
On Jon Rothstein’s College Hoops Today podcast on Monday, Pitino said he thinks that Mike Krzyzewski’s team this year has talent that rivals the 1996 Kentucky team.
Here is an excerpt of Pitino’s comments:
“They’ve got a fifth-year guy (Amile Jefferson) who’s a terrific rebounder and basketball player and they’ve got great shooting, great coaching and a great system,” Pitino said. “They’ve got it all. They’re very deep and they’ve got two of the best in Jayson Tatum and Harry Giles — the one-and-two ranked high school players in the nation. They’re as good of a team as I’ve seen in the modern era.
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“We just had our reunion in Miami (the 1996 team) and the hat said on the side said, ‘greatest team ever’… That was a great basketball team, but I think Duke rivals that basketball team in terms of talent.”
