DURHAM, North Carolina -- Long gone are the days when N.C. Central coach LeVelle Moton could call a timeout and tell Jeremy Ingram to go get a bucket and more often that not Ingram would.
No longer can he tell Emanuel “Poobie” Chapman to create an open shot for another player. He too often did that.
And Moton is quick to say he may never get that again at N.C. Central.
“That kid was rare,” Moton said of Ingram. “Y’all saw him when the lights were on, but it was even more special to see him in here when no one was in the stands.”
Those players, who in 2014 led N.C. Central to its first Division I NCAA tournament berth in school history, have since graduated. This will be the second season without them, and the Eagles are trying to figure out a way to get back to the postseason.
Only two players on this year’s team – Dante Holmes and Jay Copeland – and Moton remember what it was like.
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