pIt's the book in which America's favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful bestseller, A Season on the Brink. It's the book that takes us inside the intensely competitive Atlantic Coast Conference paints a portrait of how college baskettball is coached played at the highest level. It's the book that takes us onto the courts, into the locker rooms, inside the high-pressure world of the talented coaches who have helped make the ACC's nine colleges - Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, Wake Forest, Florida State - world-renowned for their championship basketball teams. The author's afterword to this edition will recap the ACC's current season preview the 1998-99 rivalries.p