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Parent News & Events Two Blair Alumni Head to Final Four
 Luol Deng '03, a freshman at Duke University, and Charlie Villanueva '03, a freshman at the University of Connecticut, will be reunited this weekend. Duke (31-5, 13-3 ACC), the Atlanta Regional champion, will face Phoenix Regional champion Connecticut (31-6, 12-4 Big East) in the national men’s basketball semifinals on Saturday, April 3, in San Antonio. CBS will televise the game at 9 p.m. (CBS Tip-off is scheduled for 8:47 p.m.)
A New York Times sports reporter and photographer visited Blair’s campus on March 29 to interview Headmaster Chan Hardwick and Coach Joe Mantegna; tentative plans call for a story to run in the April 1 edition of the Times.
College Sports, which airs on Direct TV, Channel 610, filmed footage and taped interviews on Tuesday as well; their segment will run sometime between April 2 and 4.
CBS has tentative plans to cover the story of Luol and Charlie, while The Star-Ledger (New Jersey’s largest daily) will feature the two alums sometime this week.
According to Duke’s Web site, “Duke leads the all-time series with Connecticut, 4-3, dating back to 1964. Four of the seven games have come in NCAA Tournament play, with the Blue Devils picking up postseason wins in 1964, 1990 and 1991 while the Huskies earned a 77-74 victory over Duke in the 1999 NCAA title contest. The Huskies have won the past three meetings between the two schools by a total of 12 points. The last six games between Duke and Connecticut have been decided by an average of 4.8 points, with the 1976 and 1990 tilts going to overtime.”
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