Hi, I'm Charlie Board and this site is my labor of love. I'm a 40-something
software developer and father of three, currently residing in Cary, NC.

 I try to keep the site non-partisan but I grew up in Winston-Salem an avid
Wake Forest fan - an allegiance that survived a stint in grad school at NC 
State. My earliest ACC memories consist of listening to Wake Forest games
on the radio around 1969 or 1970 in my room, pretending I was Charlie
Davis and shooting a super ball at the trash can every time Charlie took
a shot. My earliest recollection of seeing an ACC game on TV is that of
watching the amazing 2ot NCSU upset of South Carolina in the 1970 ACC
championship game.  My most treasured moment as a fan (and my all-time
favorite game - I've nearly worn out the tape) is the 1995 ACC Championship
game in which Randolph Childress put on a cape and led us to the promised 
land. With a little help from a guy named Duncan.

MY ACC OPINION LISTS
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  I get a lot of email from readers of this site and one of the questions
I get asked a lot is who I think are the greatest players in ACC history.
So this time around I'm gonna take a stab at answering that  question.
These are strictly my opinions - and if you'd like to make your own lists
to be published  in a new OPINION section of this site in the next update, please
do...I'd love to read them! 

  I started to try to list the top 20 players....but quickly came
against a problem. In my view, living within the ground rules I set
out for myself (below) there are three players head and shoulders above
everyone else....and then there are about 20 or so that could come in almost
any order depending on how I feel the day I'm making the list. So rather than
trying to rank ALL those guys together I've decided to split them out
and rank them by position.

   My ground rules are:
     --- Only players I've seen are eligible. My apologies to Chappell, Heyman,
       Rosenbluth and all the other pre-1970 greats, but I can't rank what
       I haven't seen.
     --- Rankings are based on college careers ONLY.
     --- Players who played fewer than three seasons are ineligible...except
       for their own list at the end.
     --- Players who used all their eligibility get favored (slightly) over
       guys who left after three years

As always when making out lists such as this, as soon as it's out there
I'm going to think of a half dozen players I forgot to include:

Ok, on to the lists:


  THE TOP THREE, IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
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   1.  David Thompson
   2.  Tim Duncan
   3.  Ralph Sampson

  THE BEST CENTERS
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   1.  Tim Duncan
   2.  Ralph Sampson
   3.  Mike Gminski
   4.  Tommy Burleson
   5.  Christian Laettner
   6.  Sam Perkins

  THE BEST POINT GUARDS  (my favorite position)
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   1.  Phil Ford
   2.  Muggsy Bogues
   3.  John Lucas
   4.  Sidney Lowe
   5.  Mark Price
   6.  Bobby Hurley
   7.  Skip Brown
   8.  Monte Towe
   9.  Chris Corchiani

   THE BEST SHOOTING/OFF GUARDS
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   1.  Charlie Scott
   2.  Charlie Davis
   3.  Johnny Dawkins
   4.  Randolph Childress
   5.  Michael Jordan
   6.  Walter Davis  
   7.  Rodney Monroe

   THE BEST POWER FORWARDS
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   1.  Rod Griffin
   2.  Len Bias
   3.  Shane Battier
   4.  Antawn Jamison
   5.  Rodney Rogers
   6.  Horace Grant

   THE BEST SMALL FORWARDS
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   1.  David Thompson
   2.  Grant Hill
   3.  Danny Ferry
   4.  James Worthy

   THE CURRENTLY ACTIVE PLAYERS (2002) THAT WILL LIKELY MAKE ONE OF THOSE LISTS NEXT YEAR
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Jason Williams
     Juan Dixon

   BEST ONE OR TWO YEAR PLAYERS (INELIGIBLE FOR THE ABOVE LISTS)
   -------------------------------------------------------------
    1.  Kenny Anderson
    2.  Joe Smith
    3.  Bob McAdoo
    4.  Stephon Marbury
    5.  Steve Francis
    6.  Skip Wise
    7.  Elton Brand



   MY **FAVORITE** PLAYERS
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     1.  Muggsy Bogues
     2.  Charlie Davis
     3.  Randolph Childress
     4.  Tim Duncan
     5.  Skip Brown
     6.  Rodney Rogers
     7.  Rod Griffin
     8.  Rusty LaRue
     9.  Darius Songaila
     10  Gil MacGregor
     11. Mark Cline 
     12. Rafael Vidaurretta
     13. Willie Griffin
     14. Tony Byers
     15. Jerry Schellenberg
     16. Jim Johnstone

   MY FAVORITE NON-WAKE FOREST PLAYERS
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     1.   Pano Fasoulas
     2.   Matt Harpring
     3.   Len Bias
     4.   Monte Towe
     5.   Gene Banks
     6.   Spud Webb
     7.   Terrell McIntyre

   GREATEST GAMES
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     1.  NCSU-Maryland, 1974 ACC Championship
     2.  Duke-Kentucky, 1992 Regional Final
     3.  Wake Forest-North Carolina, 1995 ACC Championship 


   BIGGEST UPSETS
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     1. Chaminade over Sampson's Virginia
     2. 1989 ACC Tourney, #8 Maryland blowing out #1 NCSU
     3. Florida State over Duke, 2002

   GREATEST COLLEGE PLAYER EVER
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     Lew Alcindor, UCLA

   GREATEST PRO PLAYER EVER
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     Kareem Abdul-Jabbbar