The 6-foot-4 guard from Raleigh said Monday that he is most interested in Louisville, Duke, Kentucky and N.C. State. He said he had not had any contact with new N.C. State basketball coach Mark Gottfried.
The NCAA men's basketball tournament provides fodder for bar-room debates over seedings, controversial calls and bizarre endings. There is no debating, though, that Clemson was wronged by the NCAA last week.
Former Duke men's basketball star Grant Hill, 38, is criticizing former Michigan star Jalen Rose for saying the Blue Devils "only recruited black players who were 'Uncle Toms.' "
One of the rules about the NCAA tournament is that guard play trumps all, that the teams with the best guards are going to advance, everything else being equal. Most of the time, that's true.
No. 10 regional seed Florida State's 71-57 dismantling of No. 2 seed Notre Dame on Sunday night gave the ACC three teams in the regional semifinal round of the NCAA tournament.
Duke will get a late tipoff and North Carolina an early start in the Round of 16, according to the game schedule announced early this morning by the NCAA and CBS.
North Carolina never would have won this one without its maligned shooting guard, who didn't make a single field goal in three ACC tournament games but played beautifully Sunday in Charlotte.
You don't get to 900 wins without knowing the X's and O's of basketball, without recruiting, without leading and without all the other attributes that go into coaching.
