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Cling to the past fool, Wooden was a giant in his time with nobody their to rival him. Everything is timing, and Coach Wooden was just the right coach at the right time. I could dare to imagine him being a succesful coach today. Perhaps the only record there that will not be broken is the 7 in a row.

Don't get me wrong Mr. K, John Wooden is a legend, and well deserved. He was a pioneer, an excellent player and coach, but I always find it funny when people try to talk junk about the ACC and try to compare UCLA to it. It is an insult to try to compare a single team against the most storied and sucessful conferance in college history. UCLA had its moment in history, but unlike UCLA, the ACC, UNC, Duke and the others will never fade away. The ACC is college basketball past, present, and future, and all the records set by UCLA and the lackeys of Wooden will be shattered many times over.

Coach K btw tied Dean smith for the most NCAA tourney wins @ 66. Wooden was in the 50's.

But not taking anything away from Wooden, he was a great coach in his own right. Just nothing compared to Dean Smith and Coack K.

They forget to mention that he had the highest ranking recruitment class ten years straight, with multiple rumors that he bribed players with insentive scholorships.

Yea your right, that was Chris Paul, your talking about the finger player? with one finger? that was sweetness

UCLA was a phenom, you are correct. But what are they now? Wooden wasn't a basketball coach, he was a recruiter. He recruited the best prospects and just gave them a nudge. You UCLA fans cling desperatly to that great era like it means something, when in fact it means didley squat today. UNC and Duke will both eventually pass every record set by UCLA, while UCLA themselves will continue to either not make the tournament at all, or lose in the first round (like this year).

They have perhaps the best point guard in the entire ACC, Chris Paul, hes fun to watch.

Wake Forest, btw, is also in the tourney as a number 2 seed. Their home is in Winston - Salem, NC, but their old town Wake Forest, is just south of where I live. They use to call this are the four corners of college basketball. I have them picked to go the Finals.

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We'll let me tell you a little bit about Tobacco Road. It's called that cause this area has the most tobacco farms in the state with the highest export. Three teams with a storied history play in this area, N.C State plays in Raleigh, where I live, Duke plays in Durham whose city limits is only two miles north of where I live, and UNC, who plays in Chapel Hill just about 7 miles west of where I live. My team, the University of North Carolina, is famous for its long story history in college basket, winning three national championships and having the longest active streak of going to the NCAA tournament. The greatest coach of all time, Dean Smith, coached here. Many consider Dean to be the pioneer of modern college basketball. And of course, who can forget, this is the school where the great one himself played, Jordan. More recently Duke has been the team to beat. Although they are consistantly voted as the most hated team in America year after year, they have been contendors to win the National Championship year after year after year thanks mainly to the excellent coaching of "Coach Kyzerescki", don't bother trying to learn how to spell that or pronounce it, just say Coach K. In any case after UNC won their last title in 1993, Duke took control of the ACC, winning nearly all of the regular season and ACC tourney titles in the last 12 years. N.C. State is famous for its miracle tournament championship run in the year I was born, 1983. I'm sure you've heard of the Jimmy V foundation? Jimmy V was the coach that year, and soon after winning that story book title Jimmy V was diagnosed with cancer. After that N.C. State struggled until recently, when Coach Herb Sendeck and outstanding player Julius Hodge restored its pride a little.

Dixie East you still got a long way to go

Muffin Their the team that scored 96 points.

It's addictive

oh yea, Duke got lucky tonight. Deleware St. couldn't hit a shot from 3 ball land early thats what bailed duke out in the end. Dukes does have shotty defensive players but the one thing they do good and I'll give credit to them is that they find a way to play good team defense. They played a marvelous zone defense in the second half forcing DS to shoot over them.

who? Vermont?

I picked 'Cuse, jeez I never noticed that.

Tough break Mascot, guess you gotta root for UNC now :evil: oye how lucky is Duke that Deleware state came out Ice cold, 6% in the first ten minutes

I didn't think Syracuse would go down that early. Remember what I said? ahhhh they'll go out first round I didn't believe myself

You read my mind Muffin. No a 16 seed has never beaten a 1 seed. I think the record is 84 - 0 or something like that. But I was gonna post that I smell a little history in the air tonight at the expense of our cross town rivals from Durham :evil:

The best, we have 2 #1 seeds, UNC and Duke, and a #2 seed, Wake Forest, (who deserved to be number one because Washington is horrible), plus N.C. State. This has long been the best basketball state in the country.

Who, the UCF guy who got hurt in the arm lock?

:evil: 96 with subs playing for most of the second half UCF and New Mexico almost made me perfect for the day, I don't understand how Uconn got such a good seed with no true point guard. I worry for Florida now that they play Villinova, who has 4 good point guards.

That bracket is stacked, with National contendors like Kansas and others that are likely to stop them before they get to UNC. I like how N.C. State battled today, so I think they will take Uconn next round. UNC has scored 59 points in the first half :evil:

University of North Carolina Tar Heels UConn looks strong early, so much for my upset for C. Florida. <_<