DeCourcy: Will North Carolina still win the ACC regular-season title?

Posted Jan 15, 2009
A friend, Adam Gold, is host of a morning radio show on WRBZ-AM "850 The Buzz" in Raleigh. Before the season, Adam wrote on his blog that Duke, not North Carolina, would win the ACC championship. Around the Triangle, he was thought to have misplaced a marble or two. Apparently, he was just another genius ahead of his time, like Galileo. (Sporting News)

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