Trapani made the right move

The Boston Globe | February 21, 2009| | Copyright

In 1972, the year before Charlie Trapani came to the University of Vermont, basketball coach Peter Salzberg decided to take his team to Division 1.

He established relationships with coaches in the Atlantic Coast Conference, particularly North Carolina's Dean Smith and N.C. State's Norm Sloan, and stacked the Catamounts' schedule with any team that would make his program better.

Trapani, a self-described "low-post bruiser," spent his college years pushing and shoving the big men of some of the best teams in the country, and the competition was what he remembered and appreciated most when he ...

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