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A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference Book

In terms of work ethic, John Feinstein is the sports equivalent of Stephen King: he's tireless, prolific, and multifaceted. With a past-performance line that includes A Season on the Brink, A Good Walk Spoiled, and A Civil War, he's regularly in the running for his genre's MVP. A March to Madness, which chronicles the 1996-97 Atlantic Coast Conference's ineluctable journey to March Madness, continues his string. Exhaustively reported, and penned with as much poignancy as panache, it's the story of the most competitive college basketball conference in the U.S., filtered through the eyes--and complex lives--of its head coaches. Coaching young in-your-faces is never easy; it's even harder in a pressure cooker such as the ACC, where expectations are enormous, winning is essential, and an NCAA tournament bid is requisite for survival. Feinstein had remarkable access to his high-profile, high-strung subjects, such as Dean Smith, Bobby Cremins, and Mike Krzyzewski, and the drama he records is every bit as fast-paced and stunning as a close Duke-North Carolina game with the final seconds ticking off the clock.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Every year, all across America, the excitement builds as March approaches. Like only a few other sports events - the World Series, the Super Bowl, the World Cup - the games that culminate in the national college basketball championship propel sports fans throughout the country into a frenzy. And nowhere is the rivalry more intesnse than in the nine-team Atlantic Coast Conference, which has long been a breeding ground of basketball superstars (Michael Jordon, Grant Hill, and Kenny Anderson among others) and has sent at least one team into the NCAA's Final Four in fifteen of the last eighteen years.

    In this widely acclaimed book, John Feinstein takes us behind the scenes of the ACC through an entire unforgettable season. He captures the thrill of the games, the personalities of the players, and, most compellingly, the formidable and surprising challenges that confront the teams' coaches. Feinstein's book is a triumph of sports reporting - a living portrait of how college basketball is coached and played at the highest level.

  • 0316277126
  • 9780316277129
  • John Feinstein
  • 15 February 1999
  • Back Bay Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 512
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