UNC Basketball: The 10 Duke players UNC fans hated most

Steve Wojciechowski

Steve Wojciechowski’s list of accomplishments at Duke are much shorter than the rest of the players on this list. His stats are less robust, too. Over his four-year career at Duke from 1994 to 1998, Wojciechowski averaged just 5.4 points, four assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game.

After starting 15 games as a freshman, he finished his career with just 19 starts in 127 games — four as a sophomore and none in his final two seasons. He shot just over 38 percent for his career, though he did manage to knock down better than 36 percent of his three-point attempts. He was a part of 87 Blue Devil wins, three NCAA Tournament appearances and first-place finishes in the ACC in 1997 and 1998.

Wojo was an all-around good guy, but North Carolina fans — and most other fans — hated him for his sometimes obnoxious, but overall tenacious floor-slapping tendencies. In fact, many credit him as the father of floor-slapping, and opposing teams would use it to taunt and mock Wojo and the Blue Devils.

UNC basketball fans would have little problem with a guy like Wojo today, given that he’d never make it on the court in this age of college basketball; at least, not at Duke. The tenacious, floor-slapping, hard-working, blue-collar four-year player is a rare one in today’s game, especially at Duke.

These days, Wojciechowski can be found on the sideline during Marquette games, where he’s entering his sixth season as the team’s head coach. He’s compiled a 97-69 record during that span — including three 20-win seasons — and made two NCAA Tournament appearances. Apparently the school is a fan of his work, because in May they extended his current contract out to the 2023-24 season.