That Krzyzewski, his former point guard, first matched that achievement seemed improbable, until now.
The franchises were first matched in 1950, when the Lakers were in Minnesota and the team that would become the 76ers was in Syracuse, playing as the Nationals.
Mr Long said he "just knew it would be my turn again some day" - but admitted that when their numbers were first matched he just "couldn't believe it".
In recent years, scholars such as Ferguson, who is an economist, have puzzled over the ongoing achievement gap and what to do about it, even as other nations' school systems at first matched and then surpassed their U.S. peers.
Eight years later, the team performed the first matched transplant from an unrelated donor, a success that led to the formation of a national registry that now includes more than 11 million marrow donors.
Lenny Webster hit two solo homers and Jeffrey Hammonds had one for the Orioles, whose five hits in the first matched their total Tuesday in a 4-1 season-opening loss to the Royals.
Impressively, though, one recent study of high-school students found that morning people outperformed evening people in maths, science and language exams, even when the two groups were first matched on an IQ test.
Like "The New City," Amidon's last novel, "Human Capital" follows the entwined adventures of two fathers, with the business dealings and romantic affairs of the parents at first matched and then overshadowed by the schemes of their college-bound offspring.
"White Christmas" has long been seen as a follow-up to "Holiday Inn," the 1942 Irving Berlin musical that first matched Crosby with the song that would yield the best-selling single of all time.
The men were first matched to fight the return bout last April in Miami, and by March I found myself reflecting on the infinite variety of things that could happen in a match between heavyweights, and how silly I would feel if Patterson now did what I had half expected him to do in the first fight, before I had seen Liston at work.
Ferguson first matched their achievements and then surpassed them.
