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State sports information director Mark Bockelman. ""The scouts told me I was too dependent on Rodney and that I never developed into a scorer or a shooter and that he was too dependent on me to handle the ball.''īut during their magical careers, which included three trips to the NCAA Tournament, the two were the inseparable combination of "Fire & Ice,'' a promotional name given to them by N.C. "We benefited from our play together in college, but I think we hurt one another for the next level,'' Corchiani says. "Would we have been as good as we were together? It's hard to say, but I don't think so.''īut Corchiani believes their special bond on the court may have been a detriment to both of them when it came to assessing their value in the NBA, where both desperately wanted to have success. I could have played with another point guard and been pretty good. He could have played with another shooting guard and had a very successful career. Chris is a true point guard all he needed was someone to pass the ball to. ""We both could have had good careers if we had gone to other schools and played with different people. "I don't know if you can answer that question,'' Monroe says, some 15 years after their playing days together have ended. Would Monroe have scored so many points (2,551, third most in ACC history) had Corchiani not been there to throw him the ball? Would Corchiani have had so many assists (1,038, now the second most in NCAA history behind Duke's Bobby Hurley) if Monroe hadn't been there to hit so many baskets? That was really the beginning of a friendship that eventually ended with Corchiani, the emotional ""Fire'' part of the combination, becoming the NCAA's all-time assists leader and Monroe, the stone-faced shooter known as ""Ice'', breaking David Thompson's school scoring record.Ĭould they have done the same thing had they not played their entire college careers together? That's the perfect chicken-and-egg question for the two guards. ""He told us we were the backcourt of the future, and we better start behaving that way.'' "He told us, in his own way, that we needed to work together,'' Corchiani remembers. The coach, who envisioned four years of having the two guards run his transition offense, was hardly thrilled that they were at each other's throats from the first tip. "I think that is when our relationship really got started, after those rough-and-tumble incidents.''Īnd after a trip to talk to head coach Jim Valvano, who heard about the scuffles from other players on the team. "Nobody was going to back down,'' Monroe says, smiling at the memory. Two more times, Corchiani and Monroe let their tempers take over and needed to be separated by their new teammates. Then Chucky Brown, who stepped in as a peacemaker, got a fat lip. So, at one point in the endless afternoon, Monroe called a foul on Corchiani. He had also heard from some older, trouble-making teammates that Monroe might want to play the point, and Corchiani was out to make sure nobody messed with his turf. Maria Goretti High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Basketball'' in his career at Miami Lakes High School, had heard that Monroe wanted to play the shooting guard position in college, but he also knew from their meetings at the summer basketball camps that Monroe had played the point position for four years at St. Oh, Corchiani, the McDonald's All-America who was twice named Florida's "Mr. It was the late summer, and both Corchiani and Monroe had arrived as well-decorated high school point guards. Granted, in that one particular pickup game at Carmichael Gym during their freshman season, the difficulty was in prying the two flailing guards apart, so intent were they on beating each other's brains in. State teammates, it became hard to separate Chris Corchiani and Rodney Monroe, the Wolfpack's famed "Fire & Ice'' guard combination. – From one of the first times they played together as N.C.