Dean Smith, Bones McKinney, Vic Bubas helped put ACC basketball on the map

Posted Apr 30, 2018
Bones McKinney, among a handful of military veterans who played basketball for the Wolfpack and Tar Heels straddling World War II, became Wake’s head coach in 1957-58. Within a few years the ACC’s balance of power shifted as Everett Case’s N.C. State program waned and Dean Smith tried to gain traction in Chapel Hill following Frank McGuire’s 1961 departure. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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