A Conversation for North Carolina, USA
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Jimi X Started conversation Jan 7, 2000
It's second-leading export is college basketball. Think Tarheels, UNC-Charolette, Wake Forest, etc. Or think it's wher Michael Jordan learned to play the game.
For more information go ask TV's Frink at http://www.h2g2.com/U37846
He is in the process of putting together the comprehensive entry on March Madness at http://www.h2g2.com/A222553
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Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 Posted Jan 8, 2000
Yea, verily. When last I visited the Tarheel State, the kids were like little Hoosiers. (Hoosiers being Indiana residents such as Larry Bird, for the North-America-basketball-challenged.)
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Jimi X Posted Jan 10, 2000
Though I doubt they'd appreciate being called 'little Hoosiers' since I've met some from N.C. who claim that Dean Smith invented the game with Naismith back in the 1890s. 
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