Here’s why new NC State basketball dorm should not be named after Everett Case

Throughout the discussions of a proposed $15 million dormitory for men’s and women’s basketball players at N.C. State, the school has referred to the four-story building as Case Commons.

We can hope it is only a working name.

For a couple of reasons, a new building on campus should not be named after the legendary coach Everett Case, whose innovative ways and winning teams put N.C. State men’s basketball on the national map in the late 1940s and into the ’50s. There is no doubting the lasting impact Case had not only in Raleigh but throughout North Carolina and in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Yet one building on campus named after Case is enough. There forever remains the stain of two NCAA…