A March to Madness: The View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference

Sportswriter John Feinstein returns to the arena of his most successful book, "A Season on the Brink," taking readers inside college basketball's Atlantic Coast Conference -- a group of nine colleges renowned for its championship teams, as well as for the pros it has produced. Feinstein follows the teams through the unforgettable 1996-97 season and illuminates the almost inconceivable pressures on coaches and players in the conference. It was a year in which Dean Smith broke Adolph Rupp's all-time record for coaching victories, superstar Tim Duncan and Coach Dave Odom attempted to lead Wake Forest to its first Final Four in thirty-five years, Mike Krzyzewski tried to fall in love with coaching again, and Carolina fought its way into another Final Four after a dismal start. Behind those stories, "A March to Madness" brings to light the hidden world of college basketball -- the bitter rivalries between coaches, the toll of competition on marriages and careers, the difficulties coaches have in dealing with NBA-bound players, and much more.