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putting the david in davidson
My friends at PRNewswire sent these statistics out Friday regarding the difference in size between Davidson and Wisconsin.
Davidson has 1,700 students, 162 full-time faculty, 600 staff members and 18,723 active alumni. Wisconsin’s total enrollment is 42,041, double the number of Davidson’s students, faculty, staff and alumni combined.
But no matter what, both teams can only put five players on the court at one time.
Who knew? Bobby Knight, responding to a question from fellow college basketball talking head Dick Vitale, confirmed on ESPN on Friday that he was almost hired years ago as head coach at Davidson. Knight didn’t offer further information as to how long ago or who got the job.
They just showed Kansas assistant coach and former Jayhawk star Danny Manning watching the Davidson game.
He was the source of considerable friction between the Kansas and UNC programs more than 20 years ago.
Manning had been playing high school basketball in North Carolina, when then-Kansas head coach Larry Brown hired Danny’s father, Ed, as an assistant coach. Manning was thought to be a sure thing to play at UNC for Dean Smith, but wound up at Kansas, leading the Jayhawks to the 1988 national championship.
So he started it. Len Elmore said his former college coach, Maryland’s Lefty Driesell, was among the first coaches in the ACC to get student sections moved close to the floor. “He was a marketing genius,” said Elmore.
The more I watch Stephen Curry of Davidson, the more he reminds me of another North Carolina kid who was slightly built yet managed to get loose over and over again to make shots from everywhere.
His name was Pete Maravich.
Curry isn’t the ballhandler the Pistol was. There may never be another ballhandler as good as Maravich. But he’s definitely got the shooting part down.

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