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(12-22-2017 03:51 PM)Nukesquad Wrote:  

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(12-22-2017 06:50 AM)Old Dominion Wrote:  

(12-21-2017 08:24 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(12-21-2017 10:29 AM)ODU804 Wrote:  I guess we'll have to disagree on some of this. I would absolutely take Wake, NC State, Boston College or Pitt on a home and home deal. I think we have to be realistic about who we are. The only way we are going to schedule top level P5 games is on a cash game at their place which i would just as soon do without.

I agree that if we play an elite P5 program it should be on the road because we’re not at their level. Similarly, MEAC teams are not on the G5 level, so they should play on our home court. But there are several teams on our level from the CAA, A-10, American (ECU), CAA, and Sunbelt that we should be playing more regularly.

Also, not sure how we got UNC to play the very first game at the Ted.

Dean Smith always promised recruits he would get a game in their area if possible. At that time I think we they had a kid from Norfolk on the team. Smith may have been gone by the time that game was played, not sure.

When UNC played at the Ted it was Roy Williams's first regular season game as their coach. What i don't recall is what the circumstances that got us a home game against them.

If you are referring to the 2002 home opener for the Ted, Matt Doherty was the head coach for UNC. Roy Williams came in the following year. Their current Dir. of Ops, Sean May, played that game and was pitted against Ricardo Marsh most of the game.

Feel pretty certain they played us at Scope a few years before that as well.The kid with the white patch of hair who later played NBA was on that team.