Ohio Valley Notebook There has only been one conference game so far this season (Murray State’s blowout of Tennessee State), but after the calendar changes from 2001 to 2002, OVC head-to-head action will heat up. In the first two months of this young season, OVC teams have played almost all […]
Author: Dan Hauptman
ACC Notebook
ACC Notebook What have you done for me lately? With the Seminole football team not playing in the national championship game for the first time in four years, the spotlight in Tallahassee is now shining brightly on the struggling basketball squad. If Florida State is unable to buck the trend […]
Deja Vu all Over Again
Deja Vu all Over Again By Dan Hauptman Twenty-seven consecutive appearances. The last time that the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team did not make the NCAA tournament was 1974. Dean Smith was the coach, Matt Doherty was only 12 years old, and none of the current Tar Heels […]
The Jimmy V Classic
A great night Jimmy would have called his own. Some laughed. Some thought. Some cried. Needless to say, everyone had a heck of a night. Jim Valvano, in a famous speech given at the ESPY awards less than two months before he succumbed to cancer in 1993, said these poignant […]
The Tamir Goodman Story
Goodman In Search of a Good Home by Dan Hauptman The Jewish Jordan. Maybe the “Jordan” in the moniker was referring to Reggie Jordan. Or Charles Jordan. Because Tamir Goodman surely is not in the same name, sentence, paragraph, or article as the one and only Michael Jordan. Although Goodman […]
ACC Notebook
ACC Notebook The three teams that sit atop the ACC standings have 1-0 conference records. They also are located in the state of North Carolina. That is where the similarities between Duke, Wake Forest and North Carolina end. Duke, the No. 1 team in the nation, is undefeated with a […]
Ohio Valley Preview
2001-02 Ohio Valley Conference Preview by Dan Hauptman The nation’s eighth oldest conference enters its 54th year of existence. The nine-team Ohio Valley Conference looks to be very competitive in the 2001-2002 season. For the first time in almost a decade, Murray State is not the clear-cut favorite to earn […]
UNC Freshmen Stepping Up
The Flexible Freshmen by Dan Hauptman They used to not be able to play on the team. Up until 1972, freshmen were not allowed to play varsity basketball. The highest level they could play college basketball was junior varsity. That is not the case today, and nowhere is that trend […]
