Sportswriter John Feinstein returns to the arena of his most successful book, "A Season on the Brink," taking readers inside college basketball's Atlantic Coast Conference -- a group of nine colleges renowned for its championship teams, as well as for the pros it has produced. Feinstein follows the teams through the unforgettable 1996-97 season and illuminates the almost inconceivable pressures on coaches and players in the conference. It was a year in which Dean Smith broke Adolph Rupp's all-time record for coaching victories, superstar Tim Duncan and Coach Dave Odom attempted to lead Wake Forest to its first Final Four in thirty-five years, Mike Krzyzewski tried to fall in love with coaching again, and Carolina fought its way into another Final Four after a dismal start. Behind those stories, "A March to Madness" brings to light the hidden world of college basketball -- the bitter rivalries between coaches, the toll of competition on marriages and careers, the difficulties coaches have in dealing with NBA-bound players, and much more.
- ISBN10 0316378089
- ISBN13 9780316378086
- Publish Date 27 May 2014 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Little Brown and Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 480
- Language English