This was the perfect time for Henderson to shine and he did

Amid blowout wins and tight contests, Team USA found its way to the Gold Medal game versus a very talented Spain.After the back-and-forth contest, Team USA was victorious, and each player who had given up four summers of his time to train with the team put his gold medal around Coach K's neck as a sign of respect.Coach K had led the country's national team to their ultimate goal, the Olympic Gold Medal. Although this is not a Duke Basketball memory, it is one that every Blue Devil fan will remember. Our coach, Coach K, led the country's top players to the highest level, and for that, the Duke Basketball program will forever be grateful. One of the top moments for Coach K was lived out this decade, and that was his dream to put Team USA back on top of the world.

Every Duke basketball fan knew that Gerald Henderson was going to be a star coming into college, they just didn't know what is was going to take for him to find his way into the "elite player" status.I think that Henderson was listening to all the doubters entering Duke's first-round matchup with Belmont in the 2008 NCAA Tournament.Belmont, a No. 15 seed in the tournament, was a team firing on all cylinders heading into their contest against the Blue Devils, and it sure showed once the buzzer sounded for the game to begin.Left and right, and up and down the court, every time Duke made a basket, Belmont answered with one of their own. As the clock wound down to two minutes, the game was still not decided.At this point, many Duke fans probably turned off their televisions, computers and radios, all trying to avoid hearing the fate of the Blue Devils. They feared a repeat of the flat performance in the first-round the previous year that turned into an upset win for VCU. What was even more surprising was that Belmont, which led 70-69 with 15.2 seconds remaining in the game, had never won an NCAA tournament game up to this point in its program's history.

This was the perfect time for Henderson to shine, and he did. Taking the inbounds pass and going coast-to-coast for a lay-up with just under 12 seconds left in the game, Henderson put the Blue Devils ahead, 71-70. There was still enough time, however, for Belmont to get in one or two final shots. A kicked ball out of bounds with about six seconds left gave the Bruins one last-second shot attempt. The inbounds pass was thrown into the post, but landed in the hands of Duke guard DeMarcus Nelson, whose steal sealed the game for the Devils.Henderson's play near the end of the game, along with the 21 points he put up overall, gave Duke the win.Although Duke fans weren't crazy with the one-point win over their Atlantic Sun Conference foe, they were excited to see how Henderson would perform the following season in Durham The No.