As a follow-up to the very good answer provided by xsmommy, we UNC fans had great fun mocking Vitale all season long for his worship of Dook (the preferred spelling of that institution by Tar Heel fans); we called him "Dookie V" because of his repeated praise, ad nauseum, of everything Blue Devil-related.
So we were presented with quite a dilemma when, with the field narrowed to eight and Dook having been eliminated, Vitale proclaimed that UNC would win the title. Many of us took it as a bad omen. Personally, I took it as a sign of intellectual and analytical growth.
xshub is a HUUUUUUGE Syracuse fan, undergrad and law school, and it galled him no end that Duke Vitale has NEVER given SU it's due, even when they won the Natioal C'ship!
I dunno if I oughta admit it, but my mama went to Duke way back when (I think she graduated in '45). What's more, she played basketball back when women did the half court thing. I think her scoring record still stands (and probably will forever, unless women go back to half court ball).
Her ability was not passed on to me - I am definitely NOT tall and willowy.