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

Feinstein, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316277126 ISBN 13: 9780316277129

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1999

Synopsis

It's the book in which America's favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful bestseller, A Season on the Brink. It's the book that takes us inside the intensely competitive Atlantic Coast Conference & paints a portrait of how college baskettball is coached & played at the highest level. It's the book that takes us onto the courts, into the locker rooms, & inside the high-pressure world of the talented coaches who have helped make the ACC's nine colleges - Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, Wake Forest, & Florida State - world-renowned for their championship basketball teams. The author's afterword to this edition will recap the ACC's current season & preview the 1998-99 rivalries.

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Review:

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.

About the Author:

John Feinstein is the author of several bestselling sports books, including A SEASON ON THE BRINK, A GOOD WALK SPOILED, A CIVIL WAR, and, most recently, THE MAJORS. He regularly contributes commentary to National Public Radio and ESPN. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Shelter Island, New York, with his wife, son, and daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0316277126
• ISBN 13: 9780316277129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 501