Wall Street Journal: NC the Basketball Capital of the World?

"At the college level, North Carolina and Duke have won back-to-back NCAA titles – and together with North Carolina State and UNC Charlotte, have racked up a nonpareil 34 Final Four appearances in 50 years – nearly twice as many as schools from the next-highest state, California"

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and the state of NC gave Kenny Gattison employment for like 8 years.

[quote=“gotLutz, post:1, topic:24445”]“At the college level, North Carolina and Duke have won back-to-back NCAA titles – and together with North Carolina State and UNC Charlotte, have racked up a nonpareil 34 Final Four appearances in 50 years – nearly twice as many as schools from the next-highest state, California”

Full story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646904081860726.html[/quote]

haven’t UNCW and Davidson had final four appearances as well?

Nope.

[quote=“Tintin, post:2, topic:24445”]and the state of NC gave Kenny Gattison employment for like 8 years.

[quote=“gotLutz, post:1, topic:24445”]“At the college level, North Carolina and Duke have won back-to-back NCAA titles – and together with North Carolina State and UNC Charlotte, have racked up a nonpareil 34 Final Four appearances in 50 years – nearly twice as many as schools from the next-highest state, California”

Full story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646904081860726.html[/quote][/quote]

Some Wake Forest fans are going to be upset when they see that. They have a Final 4 too.

Correct, 1964.

WF didn’t see a final four with Timmy in the 90’s?

No

Correct, 1964.[/quote]

Incorrect. It was 1962.

Correct, 1964.[/quote]

Incorrect. It was 1962.[/quote]

…with Billy Packer & Co.

Wake Forest is the ultimate choke job… they have had many AA’s and future NBA stars and only got to 1 FF in the 60’s.