Five years. That’s how long you get. Obviously, each situation is different, but when a college basketball team hires a new coach, the clock starts ticking. In general, the new guy gets five years to […]
In NASCAR, it’s called the Silly Season. In the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, it’s free agency. Thanks to Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, college basketball’s new era of player movement has been given […]
Wes Miller and Mike Jones were hired for their first college basketball head coaching jobs only a few months apart in 2011. Both took over programs in disrepair and turned them into consistent winners. So […]
After 10 successful seasons of coaching at UNC Greensboro, Wes Miller had a specific set of criteria that needed to be met before he would even consider leaving for another, higher-profile job. “I’ve always dreamed […]
The phrase “one-and-done” usually refers to the NBA Draft in the state of North Carolina, not NCAA Tournament runs. This year, however, the state’s representatives didn’t make it past their first 40 minutes in Indiana […]
INDIANAPOLIS — RaiQuan Gray scored 17 points and No. 4 seed Florida State began what it hopes will be another deep NCAA Tournament run under coach Leonard Hamilton, holding off 13th-seeded UNC Greensboro 64-54 in […]
Wes Miller will never forget his first trip to the NCAA Tournament as a college basketball coach. Not necessarily in a good way. His underdog UNC Greensboro team was on the verge of an iconic […]
While the ACC Tournament gets most of the publicity in this state, the big event in Greensboro is just one of several conference tournaments involving North Carolina teams hoping for a bid in the NCAA […]
After an unpredictable 2020, the NSJ sports staff is still going to take a swing at what will happen in 2021. Sports editor Cory Lavalette and staff writers Brett Friedlander and Shawn Krest try and […]
Duke coach David Cutcliffe has coached two Mannings at two different schools. He was quarterbacks coach at Tennessee, back before Peyton Manning began his Hall of Fame NFL career, then he was head coach at […]
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