Lagniappe: Tar Heel Hoops

Abstract

It seems that every year around “March Madness” time there is a flurry of new books about college basketball, and especially about basketball in North Carolina.  How can you tell these books apart? Is there a book that covers all of North Carolina college basketball history? Which book on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is the right one for your collection? Is one book on North Carolina State University’s 1983 national championship enough, or is there a reason to have more? Which books have lots of color photographs, and which have few or no pictures? How good are the coaching and management texts by North Carolina college basketball coaches? Which books should you recommend to a researcher of North Carolina sports? The aim of this bibliographic essay is to help librarians answer all these questions. I have reviewed every book on college basketball in North Carolina that I could find (special thanks to Orlando Penetrante, Loyola Marymount UniversityDocument Delivery supervisor, for his help in obtaining many of them).