I just got home from watching the preseason NIT regionals, seeing my beloved UNC Tarheels win it for the Thanksgiving trip to New York!
If you're considering a move to the Charlotte NC area, be prepared to pick a team and pay attention to the NCAAs. We're home to UNC-Charlotte, which is a decent regional school for basketball...not national championship material (sorry, you 49ers know it's true!), but good enough to make The Dance! UNC (GO HEELS) is a mere 2 hours away, so Charlotte is home to a large number of alumni and baby blue is predominant. Wake Forest is less than an hour away, and a strong contender most years. NCSU (North Carolina State) is 2.5 hours away, and used to be a strong basketball school...but alas, Jimmy Valvano has been gone for many years now. DOOK is also 2 hours away, and completes The Big Four. Love or hate them, they're strong in basketball-and also have a lot of alums in the Charlotte area.
Be prepared for office pools come tournament time....pick your team to win it all, have the family dog make picks, whatever your reasoning-but turn in a bracket so you're not out of the office loop. And for heaven's sake, don't make fun of the basketball fanatics around you...or you will most surely be cut out!
It's a great place to live, work, and watch basketball! If you're planning a move to this area, give me a call or shoot me an email-I'm a native North Carolinian and a proud graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Just don't call when UNC is playing!