N.C. State ’83 title team gets White House trip

MORNING ROUNDUP

North Carolina State’s 1983 national championship team will forever have a spot in NCAA Tournament history for its dramatic win over Houston.

That Wolfpack team even got its own ESPN “30 for 30” documentary but what it didn’t get to do was go to the White House and meet the president after its incredible win.

Thirty-three years later, that’s about to change. After some behind-the-scenes work by and help from U.S. Sen. the 1983 team is finally going to Washington.

The Wolfpack will visit President May 9 on an overdue visit to the White House. Bailey, one of three seniors on the ’83 team with

and came up with the idea to finally get the team to the White House.

Bailey, who spent nine of his 12 seasons in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, wrote the president and had Hatch, the senior senator from Utah, follow the request in January.

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ALABAMA ASSISTANT OUT AMID REVIEW OF POTENTIAL INFRACTIONS

Bo Davis

Alabama assistant football coach is leaving the program in the wake of school and NCAA reviews of potential recruiting infractions, according to a report from The Tuscaloosa News.

Davis was making $475,000 annually in a contract that ran through 2017. He has spent six seasons at Alabama, winning two national championships.

Davis returned to the Crimson Tide in January 2014 as the defensive line coach a week after being formally introduced at USC for the same role. He had told the Trojans he was leaving for family reasons.

Davis coached defensive tackles at Texas from 2011-13 and before that spent eight of the previous nine years on staffs at Alabama, LSU and the Miami Dolphins.