A March to Madness: The View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference
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 -...
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Sportswriter John Feinstein returns to the arena of his most successful book, A Season on the Brink, taking readers inside college basketball's Atlantic Coast Conference. Library Journal The list of great sports books about anything but baseball is limited, but Feinstein has increased it by one with this tour-de-force. Similar to his book about Indiana University Coach Bob Knight, A Season on the Brink, Feinstein's latest covers one year with all of the teams in the perennially powerful Atlantic Coast Conference. After introducing each of the schools, their teams, their coaches, and their expectations for the 1996/97 basketball season, the book describes their progress week by week, culminating with Dean Smith's run to the NCAA Final Four. Such a detailed accounting of a sports season could seem interminable to readers, but Feinstein has again produced a narrative that is not only interesting but often exciting. He conveys the exhiliration of a road conference win and the gloom of a home loss. William O. Scheeren, Hempfield Area H.S. Lib., Greensburg, Pa.
Introductionix1 One Shining Moment32 Starting Over203 The Triangle484 Comeback Kids755 Openers946 Back from the Near-Dead1147 Chemistry Problems1288 The Road Back1459 School Days15510 Deck the Halls17211 Struggling18212 Respect Yourself20413 Early Crises22214 Trendsetting23915 The New Kids Take Command256
\ Library JournalThe list of great sports books about anything but baseball is limited, but Feinstein has increased it by one with this tour-de-force. Similar to his book about Indiana University Coach Bob Knight, A Season on the Brink, Feinstein's latest covers one year with all of the teams in the perennially powerful Atlantic Coast Conference. After introducing each of the schools, their teams, their coaches, and their expectations for the 1996/97 basketball season, the book describes their progress week by week, culminating with Dean Smith's run to the NCAA Final Four. Such a detailed accounting of a sports season could seem interminable to readers, but Feinstein has again produced a narrative that is not only interesting but often exciting. He conveys the exhiliration of a road conference win and the gloom of a home loss. William O. Scheeren, Hempfield Area H.S. Lib., Greensburg, Pa.\ \
