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Although college basketball started in North Carolina in 1906, it had to compete with the big sport of football. This began to change in the 1940s with the arrival of two coaches who had never played basketball but who would leave their mark on the sport. They were John McLendon, coach of North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) and Everett Case, coach of North Carolina State University.
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Roy Williams, coach of the University of North Carolina's basketball team, reminisces about his roots in Western North Carolina and as coach at North Carolina and Kansas.
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Bob Burke has been honored by Chowan University by having the Helms Center court named for him. The legendary coach headed the Chowan Basketball program for 22 years. Many of his players went on to compete at teh NCAA Division I Level.
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Legendary Coach Bones McKinney led the Wake Forest University basketball team to win the Dixie Classic in 1959. In this article, McKinney talks about this achievement and his own basketball career.