Alex Peavey was raised on ACC basketball. His father was an esteemed fundraiser at Duke and Virginia, and Alex spent untold hours at Cameron Indoor Stadium and University Hall as a fan and, eventually, a UVA student.

Peavey witnessed All-Americans such as Christian Laettner, Ralph Sampson and Michael Jordan, but it wasn’t the players who riveted him most. It was the coaches.

Virginia’s Terry Holland, Maryland’s Gary Williams, Wake Forest’s Dave Odom, Georgia Tech’s Bobby Cremins, NC State’s Jim Valvano and, naturally, the gold standards: Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina’s Dean Smith.

Those larger-than-life personalities ignited a desire to coach. And they are the reason that middle-schooler Alex recorded the 1988 ACC Tournament final between Duke and Carolina.

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