PHILADELPHIA — It would have to be now. It would have to be this year.
This game, if it is ever to be played, and there’s no stopping it now, should be for the highest stakes there are. If it can’t be for a national title, and there was a chance of that in 1991, then the combination of Mike Krzyzewski’s final season and an improbable tournament run from North Carolina will have to do.
Saturday night. New Orleans. Duke. North Carolina. Final Four. Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria.