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Message: [QUOTE="hallcity, post: 1069028, member: 4315"] Twenty-eight years ago today the biggest tragedy in ACC history occurred. Len Bias, probably the greatest basketball player in Maryland history and one of the best in ACC history was drafted first by the NBA. Bias was on campus at the time. There was no green room then. That night Bias was persuaded by a "friend" to celebrate by using cocaine for the first time. Bias died of a heart attack induced by the cocaine. The tragedy ultimately led to Lefty Drisell, the Maryland coach being fired, even though he was blameless. The death destabilized Maryland sports so badly that I'm not sure they're over it yet. Who knows whether it led indirectly to the Terps leaving the ACC. [/QUOTE]