At N.C. State, still no basketball coach

Posted Apr 18, 2006

The similarities in the searches by UNC and N.C. State extend beyond their protracted nature. Both schools went after big names first. For the Wolfpack, that meant taking a run at Texas coach Rick Barnes and Memphis mentor John Calipari, with a query along the way to Kentucky's Tubby Smith, a perennial target of those with overblown assessments of their standing in the basketball community. (Read, Virginia last year.) (Tar Heel Daily)

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