Krzyzewski, Others Carrying Acc’s Vital Tradition With Usa Basketball Premium Content

ACCSports Staff

By Al Featherston
ACCSports.com

July 31, 2007

The 1968 U.S. Olympic basketball team didn’t get much respect.

An American team almost devoid of stars and battered during a pre-Olympic tour of Europe arrived in Mexico City to find itself projected to finish third, behind the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

The NBA wasn’t involved in the Olympic movement in those days….


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