By Jerry Ratcliffe
Bobby Stokes, a longtime family doctor in Charlottesville, can close his eyes and conjure up the emotions of cutting down the ACC Tournament Championship nets 50 years ago in the Landover Capital Centre.
Stokes, then a freshman reserve point guard who played a key role in the magical three-day run, feels the goose bumps that accompanied an improbable feat that represented the greatest moment in Virginia’s long athletic history.
Within a 48-hour period, the sixth-seeded Cavaliers knocked off in order: 17th-ranked NC State (75-63); No. 9 Maryland (73-65) and No. 4 North Carolina (67-62) to claim UVA’s first title and its first bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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