Duke - Carolina Volume 3

Art MDiv Chansky

Description

Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing digital versions of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for the Apple iPad, iPhone, iTouch, Kindle Fire, Kindle eReader, Nook and all other tablet eReaders. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road.

Blue Blood – The Digital Edition provides new and updated commentary and photos, and is specifically formatted for all tablet devices. Users can flip through the pages of the eBook and enjoy a "coffee-table book" style version of Blue Blood through the brilliance of tablet and mobile computing.

Blue Blood – The Digital Edition will be released over the course of the 2010-2012 college basketball seasons, with the first chapter "Volume 1: Introduction and Earliest Years" scheduled for release in November 2010. Thereafter, culminating with the final volume being released during March Madness 2012, a new volume will be released that will detail the history of the rivalry – chronologically. The final volume will detail the 1990's - 2012 and the 09-10 seasons; where UNC and Duke won back-to-back NCAA National Championships, which has only added to the greatness of the rivalry.

Sujets

• Sport
• Sports collectifs
• Basketball
• Histoire
• United States
• History

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456606343
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Duke - Carolina Volume 3
 
by
Art Chansky
 
Editorial Assistance, Al Featherston
Digital color photographs, Jack Morton and the Associated Press
 
Copyright 2011, GreatestFan
All rights reserved.
http://www.Greatestfan.com
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
 
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0634-3
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
 
Volume 3: Kings of the Court

Duke and North Carolina had a fierce rivalry long before both schools became charter members of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953
Is it possible that this colossus of college basketball known simply as Duke-Carolina changed forever on a fight and a fix?
Two games exactly 11 months apart escalated a rivalry that had been fiercer in football to a new level of basketball belligerence. The first game might have been fixed; the second game ended in a fight for the ages.
Three players, all fast-talking Yankees later implicated in the sport’s second gambling scandal in 10 years, were on the court for the fourth Duke-Carolina game of the 1960 season in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament at Reynolds Coliseum on the N.C. State campus.
This particular Duke-Carolina game aroused suspicion among all those dissected and reviewed because the outcome was closer than reasonably expected. One team had already beaten the other three times that year by an average of 25 points and was heavily favored to do it again.
Tempers were already red hot since a vicious recruiting battle between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels the year before over New York high school sensation Art Heyman, who had actually signed with both schools.
Heyman finally made a choice, and the rivalry exploded to a new level of intensity and physical confrontation. When he moved up to the varsity, the 1961 season – coupled with what had happened the year before in the tournament – was the most anticipated to date on the two campuses, just nine mile apart.
In Heyman’s first Duke-Carolina game, he was held to 11 points and later taped a picture of the man who had defended him to the bulletin board in his dorm room, waiting for the rematch on February 4, 1961.
Fans packed the hot gym, and football players from both schools sat behind the benches in case of a fight. The local police stationed 10 uniformed cops around the court, not enough as it turned out.
Players glared at each other in the first half. They spit at each other in the second. Finally, they swung at each other, as a brawl erupted with nine seconds left in the game. The melee at mid-court ended in 10 minutes, but the effect has lasted a lifetime.
Ever since those two games, in March of 1960 and February of 1961, Duke-Carolina has meant basketball, and both proud programs have taken turns one-upping each other on the court, in recruiting and on the national stage.
It has grown to a rivalry against which all others are measured and by which each of them is judged. Nothing else compares.
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Everett Case, the legendary coach at N.C. State, had created the Dixie Classic in 1949, after he had orchestrated the completion of 12,000-seat Reynolds Coliseum on the State campus. The three-day event played between Christmas and New Year’s included the so-called Big Four schools -- Duke, N.C. State, UNC and Wake Forest -- and four others invited.

The1958 Dixie Classic Featured Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson and Michigan State’s Johnny Green – the first blacks in tourney
Carolina missed its last two Southern Conference Tournaments during back-to-back losing seasons in 1951 and ’52, which marked the end of Tom Scott’s six-year tenure as the Tar Heels’ coach. If Scott had any chance to survive, Dick Groat, Duke’s two-time All-American, sealed his professional fate with his spectacular play both years.
Groat, who helped popularized the jump shot, capped his junior season when he was named national player of the year by scoring 29 points in the 84-72 win over UNC to set Duke’s single-season scoring record of 831 points. That stood until 2001 when Jason Williams scored 841 points in six more games than Groat played.
In his senior game against Carolina, about 12 hours after he had jimmied open a window in the gym at 3 a.m. so he could shoot around, Groat scored 48 points to help crush Carolina 94-64 – a single-game Duke record unbroken until Danny Ferry’s 58 points at Miami in 1988.
“Beating Carolina in my last game meant everything to me,” said Groat, the two-sport star who played briefly in the NBA and went on to be an All-Star shortstop with the Pittsburgh Pirates. “Nothing else in my career would have mattered if I had lost that last game.”
Duke center Bernie Janicki had 31 rebounds that day to set the school’s single-game rebounding record that still stands. “That gave me an aura with Duke players since,” Janicki said. “Jay Bilas still calls me Mr. Janicki, because he said anyone who can get 31 rebounds against Carolina deserves to be called ‘Mister.’”

Two-Sport All-American Dick Groat was first Duke basketball player to have his jersey and number retired .
The Blue Devils finished 24-6 in 1952 but did not win the Southern Conference Tournament, which to the dismay of visiting teams had moved to Reynolds Coliseum. Lefty Driesell, who played for Duke in 1953 and ’54, said State didn’t need the unfair advantage of holding the conference championship on its home court every year.
“State was our biggest rival by far,” said Driesell, who beat Case’s team with a last-second shot his senior year and eventually won 786 games in 41 seasons coaching at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison and Georgia State before retiring in January 2003.
“The basketball rivalry between Duke and Carolina was intense, but it was worse in football. Ed Meadows, a tackle on our football team, went over to Chapel Hill for a bonfire the night before the game and got all beat up in a fight.”
Each basketball team had several football players on its roster and the rest of them stood behind the team’s bench at home and during some road games. Fights were commonplace, and football players were there to protect their skinny-legged basketball brethren who had no helmets and pads.
Having lost 15 in a row to Case and State dating back to 1946, UNC hired Frank McGuire away from St. John’s in 1952; a month after the Redmen lost the national championship game to Kansas in Seattle.