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Title: A March to Madness by John Feinstein ISBN: 0-316-27712-6 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This book is awsome
Comment: A March to Madness by John Feinstein is an in depth look at each men's basketball program in the Atlantic Coast Conference. I liked that Feinstein did an equally large amount of research for the history of each school and the conference in general. "On May 8, 1953, at the Sedgfield Inn in Greensboro, the seven schools voted unanimously to leave the Southern Conference and form a new league called the Atlantic Coast Conference."(p95). I also liked how John didn't just tell about the coaches' lives at work, but also their life at home and their person relationship with their players. Another part of the book I liked was the game summaries with how the coaches felt at each part and what they said to their players before, during, and after the game.
The theme of the book, in my opinion, is if you are a coach than you lead your life just like you coach your team. You have the same work ethic. You have the same expectations to succeed, and the same drive to their definition to success. As a coach myself, not on the level of these men but a coach no the less, I agree with the theme. In coaching and everything else I do I strive to reach my goal, in coaching its winning it all, in life it could be something as simple as getting to a friend's house the time I say I'm going to be there.
This book is a great read. I highly recommend it to anyone remotely interested in learning what goes on behind closed doors in one of the toughest conferences in all of NCAA basketball. I thought the book was a little Duke biased but I have no problem with that because of my Duke ties.
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific look at the ACC
Comment: No true college hoops should be without this book. Feinstein does another terrific job of showing the reader inside basketball. Thanks to the cooperation of the ACC coaches and players, the season becomes meaningful to the reader. AN enjoyable read. I would say something negative, but there was nothing bad about the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Memorable tale of a colorful season in the ACC Conference
Comment: John Feinstein is one of the most prolific writers in the field of sports journalism. He has written books covering everything from the harshness of playing for Bobby Knight ("A Season on the Brink") to romance of the little schools of the Patriot League ("The Last Amatuers"). When "A March to Madness" was released, I was quite pleased to find a tribute to a season that was so memorable to me. At the dawn of the 1996-97 NCAA Basketball season, I was in my second year at the University of Maryland. I found it difficult to really get into the basketball team my first year because it seemed like more hype than product. It was in 1996-97, that I truly began to embrace the Terrapins. "A March to Madness" chronicles their up-and-down season along with the other eight members of the ACC basketball conference (thought to be the best in the country). Feinstein was given unlimited access to all the teams by all the coaches (save for North Carolina's Dean Smith, who is notoriously stingy about that kind of access) and, as a result, put together a compelling record of, not only the season itself, but the background of the players, schools, and coaches that made that season what it was. Feinstein tells the story of Duke's Mike Krzyzewski leading the Blue Devils' resurgence to the top of the ACC standings just two years after a debilitating injury crushed himself and the Duke basketball program. He follows the quest of Dean Smith to break Adolph Rupp's all-time wins record. The journey of the conference's and country's best player, Tim Duncan of Wake Forest, to end his memorable 4-year career with a National Title comes to an end much too soon and is captured in agonizing detail by Feinstein. Feinstein also covers other notable stories like the surprising run by the upstart Maryland Terrapins to a Top 5 ranking before lack of depth and experience caused them to fall back to the back and the inexplicable implosion of Georgia Tech just one season after it missed the ACC Title by two points.
Feinstein's gift when it comes to writing is that brings life to the people he covers rather than just treating them like statistics in a news report. In "A March to Madness", the reader comes to understand the backgrounds and struggles of all of the coaches. On one level or another, the reader can identify with all of them. Feinstein treats the notable players much the same way. This book is a quick read and a truly memorable exposition of the mad world of ACC Basketball.
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Title: Last Amateurs, The: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division 1 College Basketball by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316278424 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: SEASON ON THE BRINK by John Feinstein ISBN: 0671688774 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316279722 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316277371 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316278246 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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