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College hoops road trip: Fagan's sixth annual journey starts at N.C. State

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Sporting News' Ryan Fagan is on Part I of his sixth annual basketball road trip through the Carolinas. He’ll be posting thoughts and pictures on his Twitter feed.

His previous road trips ... Year One, Year Two, Year Three, Year Four, Year Five. Follow along today ...

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11:23 a.m.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Road trip day is the best day.

That was true back in my undergrad years, whether the trip with my buddies was up to Chicago (where we somehow wound up on “Oprah”) or with seven or eight of us packed in a car headed up to Kansas City for a concert (in retrospect, two cars would have been a better idea) or if the trip was a weekend of loosely planned randomness (like the time four of us decided to visit a city that started with every letter of the alphabet, in order).