Now it’s almost forty years post-Lefty. Bob McKillop has been Davidson’s coach for almost half of those. His team won a school-record 29 games last year, is returning every player of any consequence, is in line for a third straight NCAA tournament appearance, and has on this season’s schedule games at Charlotte Bobcats Arena against North Carolina and Duke.
This year could be the year the Wildcats win back Charlotte.
All it took was the legacy of a coach who did his thing and left, the development of a coach who’s done his thing and stayed, burgeoning suburbs, and finally a skinny, unafraid 19-year-old kid who could end up being the most important player in the history of Davidson basketball.
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I said Charlotte. What they ended up winning was America.
ReplyDeleteAnd you could make the argument that America came first. Or at the very least at the very same time.
ReplyDelete"Stephen Curry could be the Davidson basketball program's most important player ever."
ReplyDeleteThat's what I wrote. So understated in retrospect. Thing is, and I remember this, I worried at the time if I was overstating or just being unfair. But I wrote those words in the fall of '07. Come March, of course, everything changed.
It didn't happen quickly, but it did happen suddenly, you know?