Maryland filled its head coaching vacancy yesterday by announcing Georgia Tech offensive coordinator Ralph Friedgen as its new head coach.
Friedgen played his collegiate football at Maryland, graduating in 1969. He served as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at his alma mater from 1982-1986 under head coach Bobby Ross. During that stretch, the Terps went 39-15-1 and won three ACC championships.
Last year, Friedgen won the Frank Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the country.
Honors for O'Leary
The Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association named Georgia Tech coach George O'Leary ACC Coach of the Year yesterday.
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Despite the loss of 1999 Heisman Trophy runner-up Joe Hamilton, the Yellow Jackets went 9-2 and earned a trip to the Chick-fil-A-Peach Bowl.
O'Leary received 44 of 70 first-place votes. Florida State coach Bobby Bowden finished second in the voting.
Not much of a challenge - yet
The ACC got off to a strong start in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge by winning three of four games in the first night of competition Tuesday.
No. 1 Duke held off No. 9 Illinois, 78-77, in the marquee matchup of the competition. No. 12 Wake Forest rallied in the second half to defeat Michigan, 71-60. Clemson defeated Northwestern 57-44 despite an ankle injury to leading scorer Will Solomon. Iowa registered the only opening-night victory for the Big Ten, defeating Georgia Tech 85-67.
The other five games of the Challenge took place last night. In addition to the No. 22 Cavs' win over Purdue at University Hall, No. 7 North Carolina lost to No. 2 Michigan State and Florida State lost to Minnesota. The results of the game between No. 14 Maryland and No. 23 Wisconsin and the one between Penn State and N.C. State were not available at press time.
It takes a thief
Several pieces of basketball memorabilia were stolen from North Carolina's Dean Smith Center Saturday.
Maintenance workers found tunnel doors leading to the court propped open when they arrived Saturday morning. The workers then found feces in the middle of the court and discovered that jersey No. 33, retired in the name of former Tar Heel star Antawn Jamison, was missing from the rafters.
A black-and-white framed photograph of the 1999-2000 team and a NCAA banner from the 1980s also turned up missing.
The stolen items were valued at about $1,100.
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