In NCAA I-A men's basketball, to say there was repetition of champions is not to say there was dominance by any team, league, or player. Duke had a down period following the surgery and recovery of Coach Mike Krzyzewski, who missed most of the 1994-1995 season with a back injury and stress-related exhaustion. Kentucky won its two championships under different coaches, Rick Pitino (who left to coach the Boston Celtics) and Tubby Smith, the first African American head basketball coach in the history of the college. Dean Smith, of North Carolina, surprised everyone by retiring after the 1997 season as the all-time winningest Division I-A coach with 879 victories, leaving his program in the hands of his assistant, Bill Guthridge. As for league play, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Southeastern Conference (SEC), PAC 10, Big 10, and Big East could all make a case for their supremacy, but none...