Aug. 20, 2008 was move-in day for 465 first-year students at Davidson College.
As school tradition dictated — and Davidson has a lot of traditions — upperclassmen greeted the newcomers and their families at the curb in front of a residence hall and then helped them unload their stuff.
It’s part welcome committee, part pack mule.
On this day, it included the boyish, smiling face of one Stephen Curry.
Curry was arguably the most famous college junior in America. Just months earlier, he averaged 32 points a game in the men’s NCAA tournament and brought little Davidson — enrollment 1,700 on a bucolic campus just north of Charlotte, North Carolina — to the brink of the Final Four.