It wasn’t just the fact that Irish coach Mike Brey recruited Bison coach Kenny Blakeney to Duke out of nearby DeMatha High School more than three decades ago or that Blakeney later worked as an assistant on Brey’s staff at Delaware.
A bronze statue commemorating that gesture stands in downtown South Bend.
“We escaped,” an exhausted Brey began his postgame interview on the Fox TV set. ”It was an amazing atmosphere.” The following summer, amid nationwide protests against racial injustice, Blakeney and Brey hatched the idea of moving the second part of their home-and-home series to MLK Day. Pandemic fallout caused the first attempt at honoring Dr. King’s legacy to be canceled. “When we scheduled this game, the parent of every one of our players said, ‘Coach, that’s really powerful. I’m thrilled you’re doing that,’ and our kids talked about it,” Brey said.
Then came a breathtaking game on Monday afternoon that fixed the nation’s gaze on two deserving programs that had come together in the name of civil rights.
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