While he may praise Kerr for his courage to have a spectacular season even after his father's tragic death in Lebanon, Feinstein devotes a good portion of the book to Walter Lambiotte, the former North Carolina State player who transfered to North-western and had to sit out a year. He writes about Kerr, Manning and Duke's Billy King-three players whom fans will identify with the 1987-88 season-and follows their exploits on and off the court.īut he also writes about the forgotten players. State's Jim Valvano and Villanova's Lord Rollie, and not-so-famous coaches, like Tennessee's Don DeVoe and GMU's Rick Barnes. He interviews famous coaches, such as N.C. Reid, or Arizona's Steve Kerr swishing three-pointers from outside.Īnd in A Season Inside, Feinstein takes the reader on a journey through the 1987-88 college basketball season-the year of Manning and Larry Brown, Kerr and the Arizona squad, and Rollie Massimino's return to the NCAA Tournament.įeinstein focuses his attention on several teams, ranging from Kansas to George Mason. Feinstein is a hoop addict, a writer who could spend the rest of his life locked up in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion watching Kansas' Danny Manning posting up against North Carolina's J.R.
Did John Feinstein, the author who followed Indiana Coach Bobby Knight and his Hoosier basketball team all the way to national championship in A Season on the Brink, pull it off again?ĭid he repeat the success of A Season on the Brink, which became the best-selling sports book hardcover ever?įeinstein's newest entry, A Season Inside, once again deals with the theme he knows so well: college basketball.
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