By CAULTON TUDOR, Raleigh News and Observer

Wisconsin didn't just get a quarterback on Monday. With Russell Wilson, the Badgers got a Heisman Trophy candidate.

The way things had to be done that season, Pam Valvano never got to see the final five or six minutes of any of the incredible games that led to N.C. State's even more incredible march to the 1983 NCAA basketball championship.

While issues with the NCAA remain, it is likely that North Carolina football coach Butch Davis will be tasked with leading the program as UNC emerges from this marathon investigation.

In the NCAA letter of allegations released Tuesday by the school, a lot of people are mentioned in the year-long investigation into the conduct of the school's coaches, players and support staff.

Although 65 years have passed since Jack Johnson died, the best boxer of his time remains a person of much social and political dialogue.

The first African-American heavyweight world champion was 68 when he was pronounced dead in St. Agnes Hospital on June 10, 1946, following a car crash about 20 miles north of Raleigh.

These past three or four seasons, I couldn't watch Gary Williams coach a basketball game without thinking about the Frank Sinatra song, "My Way."

Williams, an uncompromising Maryland guard long before he became the school's uncompromising coach, retired last week.

As far as the general public's fascination with celebrity weddings is concerned, the couples on this list hardly rise to the level of Kate Middleton and Prince William.

Nonetheless, the sports world has had its share of high-profile "I Dos" over the years.

Here's a very unofficial top 20 altar ranking:

-- 1. Actress Marilyn Monroe and New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio

North Carolina fans have seen the good and bad of offseason basketball over the years. They have seen the lineup card wiped completely clean.

That happened in the spring of 2005, when Tar Heels coach Roy Williams in a single news conference said goodbye to juniors Sean May, Rashad McCants and Raymond Felton, plus freshman Marvin Williams, as they left early for the NBA.

Assuming everyone isn't scared back to school by the possibility of an NBA labor impasse in 2011-12, the Atlantic Coast Conference again will lose a handful of players to the pros this spring.

But since there has been very limited attrition to this point, here's my best-case scenario guess on how the league race will pan out if everyone returns.

NEWARK, N.J. - There were tears and sad faces in North Carolina's locker room Sunday at the Prudential Center.

But then, that's to be expected.

One way or another, the NCAA Tournament breaks the hearts of 67 teams. It's exactly what makes the event special, compelling, memorable.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - It's logical to assume that if North Carolina's basketball team can maintain the current pace, one of the Tar Heels will be voted first-team All-ACC.

But which one?

There are three obvious candidates, all forwards -- freshman Harrison Barnes, sophomore John Henson and junior Tyler Zeller.