The best of times
What a year for the Atlantic Coast Conference ...
Four teams in the College World Series, three teams in the NCAA Women's Final Four ...
OK, so men's basketball had a down year - two teams in the Sweet 16, none in the Elite Eight, and if we're lucky, we get one or maybe two players in the NBA draft lottery.
And football wasn't so good - though Virginia Tech and Florida State were briefly ranked third and fourth in the country, respectively.
Virginia brought home the men's lacrosse national title; Duke brought lacrosse to its knees with the O.J. Simpson story of 2006.
Duke won (yet another) national championship in women's golf - raising the question, if North Carolina, as Dean Smith said, is a women's soccer school, then is Duke a women's golf school?
What can we do for an encore in 2006-2007?
Honestly, it will be hard to top what we saw in '05-'06.
- Chris Graham