SPORTS | BASKETBALL
RISING TO THE OCCASION
By Mike Corey | November 6, 2003In 2002-03, the men's basketball team had an anomaly of a season, according to basketball pundits.
In 2002-03, the men's basketball team had an anomaly of a season, according to basketball pundits.
A team that began last season 14-2 and was ranked among the country's best for 16 weeks, yet lost in the first round of the NIT, has its goals set for the 2002-03 season.
After losing their two captains last season, Wolfpack will use a young group of players to build upon last year's successful season.
As Duke was conducting its unprecedented 19-0 romp through the ACC regular season and conference tournament last year, the prevailing opinion was the leagues eight teams were simply too young to...
Expectations for N.C. State are overwhelmingly high this year, and nobody recognizes it better than Julius Hodge.
For the first bit of this fledgling season, one thing has become abundantly clear as the men's basketball team struggles to find its identity. The Blue Devils are young.
In 2001-2002, the best of the nation's best rivalry between Duke and North Carolina did not come on the basketball court, but rather on the recruiting trail.
After last season's performance, Daniel Ewing has left some big shoes for each of this year's freshman to fill.
"There are a lot of people who think that Florida State has tremendous potential. And I just happen to be one of them," new Seminole head coach Leonard Hamilton said.
The Clemson Tigers, are hoping this season will not be the year the roof falls in--again.
For a school accustomed to winning at least 20 games a year, how difficult is it to stomach a season of 20 losses? Just how severe a shock is it to finish 8-20, particularly after challenging for a...
Last year, in what would have been a stunning upset, Wake Forest nearly knocked off the second-seeded Oregon Ducks in the NCAA men's tournament.
As a sophomore, Alana Beard dominated like no other female basketball player ever had at Duke University. She led the ACC in scoring (19.3 points per game), field goal percentage (.572) and steals (3.
An hour before every tip-off, Michele Matyasovsky, Duke's 6-foot-1 senior tri-captain, eats a banana and then drinks a Pepsi.
Last year, Georgia Tech improved within the season like no other team in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Starting in a national championship game makes any college basketball career a successful one. Accomplishing that feat as a sophomore on the winning team makes it even more impressive.
When Duke defeated Arizona in the 2001 Final Four, Dahntay Jones watched from the bench, forced to sit out the year after transferring from Rutgers.
When Travis Watson got back to Charlottesville, Va., this year, suddenly all of the college basketball spotlights hit him. His role as a second option on offense was over.
If head women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors hasn't been around to recruit this fall, she at least had a good excuse.
Entering the 2002-03 college basketball season, few players have played in as many big games or have led their team to as much success as Maryland's senior point guard Steve Blake.