Replacement Players

During the 1992 NCAA basketball tournament, Duke and Kentucky matched up in a regional semifinal that has come to be regarded as one of the best college games ever played, if not the best. It was an overtime thriller, with innumerable lead changes and palpable tension from start to finish. With mere seconds to go in overtime, righ after Sean Woods of Kentucky had seemingly sealed victory with his own impossible back-breaking shot, the game was won on an even more improbable Christian Laettner buzzer beater that sent Duke onto the Final Four, and eventually their second championship in a row. Daniel Ralston is best known as one of the folks behind the great Low Times podcast, where he and co-hosts Tom Scharpling and Maggie Serota interview musicians from every conceivable genre. If you have not heard their show yet, you still have time to rectify your error. Daniel is also a huge basketball fan who was in the building for that legendary Duke-Kentucky battle (the building in this case being Philadelphia’s