UNC-Duke at Final Four punctuates a milestone season near the end of a golden age

Posted Apr 1, 2022
The announced retirements of Roy Williams at North Carolina and then that of Mike Krzyzewski at Duke rolled through this state like thunder, a seismic shift unlike anything since at least 1980, when the ACC underwent a year of change that still reverberates. We had no idea that it was the dawn of a golden age for basketball in the state of North Carolina. (Greensboro News & Record)

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