Ed Cota came to North Carolina with all the standard equipment. There was a confidence weaned from the playgrounds of Brooklyn, N.Y. There was a floor game polished at a Connecticut prep school.

A legend courts one prospect and falls for another. “I’m blessed,” Ed Cota said from his apartment yesterday, hours before a flight to the Final Four. Blessed that Dean Smith found him while ...

North Carolina’s Ed Cota has an NBA first-round draft choice’s resume. He’s first player ever to lead the ACC in assists for four straight years. He scored more than 1,000 points and dished ...

Not long after Vince deflected the ball, UNC guard Ed Cota completed the steal and initiated a fast break. With VC running the middle lane, Cota tossed the ball at the backboard, where it ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Ed Cota and Jeff Lebo have reached some of the same milestones in North Carolina blue. Lebo is glad to still have his name in the record book. "I thought Cota was ...

Freshman guard Eddie Cota had four points and six assists in Olympic’s victory. He’s the son of former Tar Heels point guard Ed Cota. What happened under the Friday night lights? Get exclusive ...

Cota should be a familiar name for ACC fans. He is the son of former North Carolina guard Ed Cota, the program’s all-time assist leader (1,030). The elder Cota, who played point guard for the ...

Ed Cota spurred a late second-half comeback, then he and freshmen Joseph Forte and Julius Peppers hit six straight free throws in the final 34.9 seconds, giving the Tar Heels a 74-69 victory over ...