I'm heading up to Brooklyn this morning for the ACC tournament, which began there on Tuesday, and already there have been stories about how this is a fitting site for the tournament, given the ACC's deep basketball roots in New York City.
Frank McGuire, the first North Carolina coach to lead the Tar Heels to sustained national prominence, was born in New York City. Jim Valvano, the N.C. State coach who led the Wolfpack to the 1983 national championship, was born in Queens.
Some of the ACC's best players are from the New York City area. For UNC, though, the ties to New York perhaps run deeper than any other ACC school.