{"id":147538,"date":"2025-08-15T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147538\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:13:12","slug":"youtube-gold-johnny-dawkins-saves-a-win-for-duke-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147538\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Gold: Johnny Dawkins Saves A Win For Duke In 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vov6 _16w9vov5 ls9zuh1\">Duke finished the legendary 1985-86 season at 37-3, losing in the championship game to Louisville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was a dominant run but there were some close games. Lamar was within four, losing just 66-62. Duke nipped St. John\u2019s by just one, 61-60. And Notre Dame came to Cameron in February and also lost by just one, 75-74, on one of the great clutch plays in Cameron history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wasn\u2019t an easy game and Notre Dame had David Rivers, a guard who had a brilliant college career (Incidentally, he also played at St. Anthony\u2019s where he was coached by Bob Hurley, Sr. You have to think that his sons, Bobby and Danny, were already hanging around practice, possibly shagging balls for Rivers and others as they warmed up or shot foul shots).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Irish just wouldn\u2019t go away and at the end of the game, they had the ball at their end of the court with just six seconds left. Naturally, they gave the ball to Rivers, who was guarded by Johnny Dawkins. Rivers tried to spin and get a shot off, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O1VM6d-7qws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawkins followed him up and got a clean block.<\/a> Mark Alarie picked the ball up and threw it in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You don\u2019t see that kind of a block often by a guard. Dawkins just had a perfect play and kept Duke undefeated at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Notre Dame would go into the NCAA Tournament with a 22-5 record but were upset by Arkansas-Little Rock in the first round, 90-83.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke finished the legendary 1985-86 season at 37-3, losing in the championship game to Louisville. It was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2575,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-147538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-main","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115032254392432619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}