See photos from Michael Jordan's stellar career in the NBA, including his short stint in professional baseball.

See photos from Michael Jordan's college career at UNC and the lasting bonds that formed with the Tar Heels.

The Triangle is known for its outstanding basketball, and not just the basketball played by its college teams.

The latest team enhancing the area's reputation is the Garner Road Bulldogs 15-and-under boys AAU team. The Bulldogs, coached by Dwayne West, won the 15U championship of the Disney Super Showcase National Tournament played July 20-23 at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

See and hear from some of number 50, Tyler Hansbrough's biggest fans, who also wear his jersey. Post a photo of you wearing a Hansbrough jersey at ... more

Laquita Thomas on Hansbrough's sportsmanship.

A reader who saw our list of all-time ACC basketball coaches based on their records in close games asked us to make a list based on overtime records only. So here it is.

We've started our own little basketball tournament, with a field of 32 college basketball broadcasters that you'll eventually narrow down to a champion on April 6, the day of the NCAA championship game. The field is broken into four "regionals" — play-by-play announcers, color commentators, studio hosts and analysts, and the best of the rest. You can find it here.

Since we decided to start with a field of 32, we had to leave out some announcers, you ought to weigh in on that if you disagree with any of the picks. The first vote involves picking four out of each group of eight.

My picks: play-by-play — Nantz, Enberg, Shulman, Johnson: color commentators — Bilas, Gminski, Elmore and Bonner; studio hosts and analysts — Rece Davis, Seth Davis, Knight and Gottlieb; best of the rest — Burke, Kellogg, Lundquist and McDonough.

I like Dickie V's passion and fun factor, but I prefer the more serious analysts who are more inclined to make a point I hadn't thought of, though I doubt any one of these folks is liable to openly challenge the NCAA or the college sports industry on anything. 

Maryland outs the Wolfpack in the first round of the ACC men's tournament in Atlanta in Friday, March 12, 2009.

Many college basketball fans in the Triangle who want to see No. 1 UConn face No. 3 Pittsburgh on Saturday will be able to find it on an alternate WRAL digital channel.

See a photo gallery of Cameron Crazies photos from over the years.