Three Paths to Glory: A Season on the Hardwood With Duke, N.C. State, and North Carolina - Hardcover

Jacobs, Barry

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9780025584006: Three Paths to Glory: A Season on the Hardwood With Duke, N.C. State, and North Carolina

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ISBN 10: 0025584006 ISBN 13: 9780025584006

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1994

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Traces the 1992-1993 basketball season for the three schools, all within a twenty-eight-mile radius, and describes their intense rivalry

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Big-time college basketball is a hot commodity in North Carolina. The last three NCAA champs have been Duke, Duke, and North Carolina. Jacobs follows the fortunes of the aforementioned schools plus current weak sister North Carolina State through the 1992-93 season, which ended with North Carolina's NCAA triumph. Because any college athletic program is a virtual mirror image of its head coach, much of the focus is on Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, North Carolina's Dean Smith, and N.C. State's Les Robinson. Each had a different agenda heading into the season. Coach K, as Krzyzewski is known, had the enormous pressure of being a two-time defending champ; Smith had championship aspirations with a veteran club; and Robinson was rebuilding a program devastated by scandal during the tenure of late coach Jim Valvano. Jacobs interviewed players, sat in on team meetings, and, in general, had complete access to all three programs. For each, he provides a sense of the pressure inherent in each situation and how the people involved cope with it. An intelligent, objective glimpse inside college basketball. Wes Lukowsky

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The Atlantic Coast Conference is generally considered to play the best college basketball in the country, and three of its major teams are located in a 40-square-mile area of North Carolina. Jacobs, who covers the ACC for the New York Times , charts the triumphs and tragedies of those three teams through the 1992-93 season in this intimate, anecdotal study. North Carolina State, fighting back from the legacy left by disgraced former coach Jim Valvano, was truly snakebit: one of the players committed suicide, three were dropped for academic deficiencies and two suffered serious injuries. Duke, national champions in 1991 and 1992, expected to repeat and opened the year with 10 victories. But it was the University of North Carolina, coached by the legendary Dean Smith, that went to the Final Four, defeating Kansas handily and beating Michigan 77-71 in a contest far closer than the final score would indicate. The book will be a treat for all roundball fans and obviously a must for citizens of the Tar Heel State. Photos not seen by PW .
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