WASHINGTON — If Duke wins the national championship this season, it may not be enough to simply hoist a sixth banner into the rafters at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Somewhere, some place on campus should be Cameron Boozer’s jersey from Friday night’s Sweet 16 victory over St. John’s, an 80–75 classic that won’t soon be forgotten by the Blue Devils for myriad reasons.
Chief among them can be the ripped “K” on the front of his uniform, symbolic of both the battle they went through against the hard and physical Big East champs as much as it is emblematic of this new era of basketball at a program which said goodbye to its scion of four generations and barely skipped a beat.
