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Basketball star Stephen Curry wanted to show the Davidson community how thankful he is for the past three years.

So, on the eve of his NBA career, Curry made a remarkable gesture. At a personal cost of $3,000, he sent out 2,000 “Thank You” postcards this month to fans, faculty, students and alumni.

“I started thinking about this while I was taking a summer school class at Davidson,” Curry said in a phone interview Wednesday from Oakland, Calif., after completing a practice with his new team, the Golden State Warriors. “It hit me that I wasn’t going to be able to say goodbye to everyone I wanted to, and that they might have a hard time keeping up with me now that I’m on the West Coast. I want people to know that even though I’m here, I’m still deeply tied into Charlotte and Davidson.”

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Some coverage

Charlotte:

On a day when Davidson’s basketball team was not at its best -- not nearly at its best -- the Wildcats eventually managed to pull away from UNC Greensboro Thursday night ...

Greensboro:

The Wildcats weren’t particularly sharp on offense, but they wound up with a 75-54 victory over UNCG. The Spartans made a close game of it for a while but eventually were ground down by a bigger, stronger team. The big number that UNCG really wanted materialized with the attendance of 11,687.

More: Ed Hardin. Davidson. UNCG. N&R slideshow.

Tonight in Greensboro

Greensboro:

The public will come out tonight for UNCG’s only coliseum appearance this season. More than 9,600 tickets have been sold or given away, with proceeds for the partners of about $75,000.

But the attraction for fans tonight is unique. Davidson, like UNCG, belongs to the Southern Conference, but the Wildcats played deep into last season’s NCAA tournament, losing to Kansas in a regional championship.

Davidson’s best player is Stephen Curry, who leads the nation in scoring with 29 points per game and is a first-team All-America.

Greensboro:

The scent of humiliation is in the air. UNCG could be in for college basketball’s equivalent of a public flogging in the town square tonight.

Just when the struggling Spartans desperately need to retreat from scrutiny and gain confidence by playing an equally wretched opponent on some far-flung, tiny campus, the Spartans instead get Southern Conference leader Davidson.

At the Greensboro Coliseum. In front of about 10,000 fans.

Charlotte:

The Wildcats shoot for their fifth straight 20-victory season in the huge Greensboro Coliseum, meaning that anyone in the Triad who wants a peek at Stephen Curry, the nation’s leading scorer, can do so. A win would also be Davidson’s 43rd straight in league regular-season play, leaving them one short of West Virginia’s record 44.

Editorial in Greensboro

In today’s News & Record: Rule of thumb for UNCG fans attending Thursday night’s game against Davidson: If you go for a beer every time Stephen Curry hits an impossible three-pointer, you’ll be drinking way too much.

‘The Davidson thing’

Ed Hardin: With the nation’s sports fans taking a night off from football, the Duke-Davidson game was largely a live event made for ESPN and the 9,314 people squeezed into Cameron Indoor Zoo. The kids packed the place to see their classmates play Stephen Curry, the marquee player from Charlotte and the cherubic face of college basketball.