burkphoto wrote:
I felt sorry for Coach K, but glad that we have an NC team in the Final Four. I have friends who went to both Duke and Carolina, and so do my twins.
NC has some great basketball history with all the schools on "Tobacco Road." (That's I-40 for those of you who aren't familiar with our state. Tobacco used to be the top export, back when we were little kids. It's hardly squalid, as dictionaries suggest.)
I’m an NC State Alum (and my son is a 3rd generation NCSU graduate as well). It’s been a long time since we won a championship - I graduated in 74 (the military delayed my education a bit) when we won our first championship beating UCLA and John Wooden (who beat us the year before in the finals) - wish we would get competitive nationally again. That year’s annual last page said: “1974 NCAA Champions - Go to hell Carolina” so there are a lot of old rivalries between NC State, UNC and Duke. Gonna be hard for me to root for UNC, but I’ll grit my teeth and bear it for the sake of our state.