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When he took the Maryland job, he said he was going to build the UCLA of the east. He put together some great teams in the early- to mid-70s that never made it to the top. After that, Maryland mostly wallowed in mediocrity under him. I suspect the Len Bias incident and its aftermath essentially...

Well, there was the Nassir Little matter, where the shoe company folks who were paying players and steering them to certain schools were caught on the phone discussing that Little’s family wouldn’t take the money.

Oh yeah, totally forgot we played them in the ACCT last year. My bad. Never mind my previous post.

If it makes you feel any better, it would actually be 4 out of the last 5. We swept them in 2024.

Duke was a better team overall in 2022, but we beat them in the two games against them that mattered most, and beating them in the NCAAT also meant we had a better postseason. We were about equal in 2024, but since we swept them, I think we should get the edge in terms of deciding who was better.

Going off the top of my head, I can name the coaches if the following teams: -UNC -Duke -State -Wake (helpful that his name matches the name of a former president trial candidate) -Clemson -UVA (helpful that his dad was a longtime Wake Forest coach and that he gained fame for coaching the first...

I remember back when you knew every single ACC coach and were familiar with every little mannerism and/or tendency they had. The only exceptions were when there was a brand new coach. But you got to know them fairly quickly as well. Now I don’t think I can name or picture about half of the ACC...

Why would Trump keep this option on the table if this isn’t a war?

Go Royals!

Who?

1996 was a different era, however. People expected teams that relied heavily on freshmen to struggle some back then. At the time, no one expected much from Shammond, who was essentially an unknown recruit and got very little playing time his freshman year (the year before). And people didn’t...

I wouldn’t call it a great year by any stretch (great years are years where we are among the favorites to win a national championship), but it has been a solid year and we have surpassed just about anyone’s expectations of what we would accomplish with Wilson out.

Fun fact: That SI cover made an appearance in the 1985 John Hughes movie Weird Science.

It’s funny it says “Carolina-South Carolina.”