ENGLISH

The ACC Basketball Book of Fame

By Dan Collins

Book information

Publisher
Publisher, John F. Blair
Year
2013
ISBN
978-0-89587-607-2
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
21 MB (22477994 bytes)
Pages
370\0
Time added
2015-05-04 05:21:42

Description

No Chris Paul? No Walter Davis?What is this guy, blind? Brain-addled?Actually, he's neither. Dan Collins was already immersed in ACC basketball the day in 1971 he and the Carmichael Auditorium faithful lustily booed the visiting South Carolina Gamecocks, the conference villains of his student days. Since then, in his tenure at the Chapel Hill Newspaper and his 20-plus years as Wake Forest beat reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, he has watched countless ACC games and interviewed and written about greats from Juan Dixon to Christian Laettner to Ralph Sampson to Michael Jordan.Collins devoted two years to devising a system to fairly select an ACC Basketball Hall of Fame. Most of his inductees have universal appeal—from latter-day greats including Tyler Hansbrough and J. J. Redick to old-timers including Len Chappell and Ronnie Shavlik. But others are nearly forgotten gems, like Lou Pucillo, the five-nine high-school benchwarmer discovered playing against the...

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