“About 45 minutes after Florida State’s thrilling 62-59 upset of Duke in the semifinals of the ACC tournament, Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton shared a special moment with one of his most well-respected counterparts.<\/p>\n
“While standing outside FSU’s locker room, Hamilton was greeted by a smiling Mike Krzyzewski, who had just watched Hamilton’s Seminoles best his Blue Devils in a tournament he basically owns. Krzyzewski congratulated Hamilton and praised his team.<\/p>\n
“As Hamilton delivered his thanks, Krzyzewski briefly paused, giving Hamilton one last look that read, ‘Hell of a team.'” \u201cWe went 11 years without a NCAA tournament. Now we\u2019re going to four consecutive NCAA tournaments. Leonard Hamilton is the real deal. He brings in good kids, coaches them up and turns guys that a lot of schools won\u2019t recruit into quality players in the ACC.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at the track record: (All-ACC products) Al Thornton, Toney Douglas, Chris Singleton\u2026. This is a program that was lower-tier ACC and the recruits that come in are not Parade All-Americans and McDonald’s All-Americans \u2013 Chris Singleton being the exception \u2013 and yet, somehow, someway Leonard brings them in, gets them their degree and gets them into the NBA.\u201d “After dropping 16 points and six assists on Duke, Florida State guard Michael Snaer earned praise from Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski, who called him the best competitor in the ACC.<\/p>\n “‘Snaer\u2019s terrific. I love Snaer,’ he said. ‘He\u2019s just such a great competitor. He never seems to get tired. He just has such a great will.’<\/p>\n “Snaer, a second-team All-ACC and All-ACC defensive-team selection, scored 48 points in three games against the Blue Devils this season. Snaer\u2019s teammate Luke Loucks seconded Krzyzewski\u2019s opinion, calling Snaer ‘definitely the most competitive guy I\u2019ve ever met.’\u201d “About 45 minutes after Florida State’s thrilling 62-59 upset of Duke in the semifinals of the ACC tournament, Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton shared a special…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n– Edward Aschoff, ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n– Florida State play-by-play announcer Gene Deckerhoff<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n– Ken Sugiura, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"