Lucas: Big Night For Scott

For the last 49 years, Charlie Scott has been well aware that honors bestowed at the whims of others are unpredictable.

It was 1969 when Scott, an All-America selection by both the AP and UPI and the only Atlantic Coast Conference player so chosen, was left off a handful of All-ACC ballots and lost the ACC Player of the Year award to South Carolina's John Roche.

Scott went on to collect numerous other awards; he was an Academic All-America pick, ACC Athlete of the Year, and his jersey hangs in the Smith Center rafters. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics and enjoyed a decade-long professional career.

But he wasn't sitting by his phone waiting on a call from the Naismith Basketball…