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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Atlantic Coast Preview
2001-02 ACC Conference Preview by Bill Thayer I’m watching too much television recently, this ticker thing is starting to bug me … Williams back, Devils team to beat … Terrapins return to prominance, can they knock off Duke? … New Skip in Wake … Doom and gloom in Chapel Hill […]
Part 3
ACC – Big Ten Challenge: Part 3 of 3 Editor’s Note: With this week’s ACC – Big Ten Challenge featuring a number of top-ranked teams, we’ve asked our resident experts, Mark McGrath, our Big Ten staff writer, and Bill Thayer, our resident ACC expert to prognosticate the nine games. In […]
Part 2
ACC – Big Ten Challenge Preview: Part 2 of 3 Editor’s Note: With this week’s ACC – Big Ten Challenge featuring a number of top-ranked teams, we’ve asked our resident experts to prognosticate the nine games that will take place over the next two days. As they did in yesterday’s […]
Part 1
ACC – Big Ten Challenge Preview: Part 1 of 3 Editor’s Note: With this week’s ACC – Big Ten Challenge featuring a number of top-ranked teams, we’ve asked our resident experts to prognosticate the nine games that will take place over the next two days. Mark McGrath, our Big Ten […]
