A March to Madness

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author takes us behind the scenes of the ACC through an entire unforgettable season. "A basketball junkie's nirvana." —Sports Illustrated

Every year, all across America, the excitement builds as March approaches. Like only a few other sports events—the World Series, the Super Bowl, the World Cup—the games that culminate in the national college basketball championship propel sports fans throughout the country into a frenzy. And nowhere is the rivalry more intense than in the nine-team Atlantic Coast Conference: Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, Wake Forest, and Florida State. Long a breeding ground of basketball superstars (Michael Jordan, Grant Hill, and Kenny Anderson, among others), it has sent at least one team into the NCAA's Final Four in fifteen of the last eighteen years.

In this widely acclaimed book, John Feinstein captures the thrill of the games, the personalities of the players, and, most compellingly, the formidable and surprising challenges that confront the teams' coaches. Feinstein's book is a triumph of sports reporting—a living portrait of how college basketball is coached and played at the highest level.

"Feinstein's best basketball book." —Cincinnati Enquirer

"Fun to read." —The Sporting News

"Fans will find everything in this book." —The New York Times