Lucas: Big Story Is No Story

Posted Apr 2, 2008

Quentin Thomas went on an official recruiting visit to Kansas just a few months after Roy Williams departed Lawrence for Chapel Hill. It was the fall of 2003, some emotions were still raw--especially in Jayhawk country--and he wasn't sure what to expect. Williams had recruited him to Kansas and then continued to recruit him to UNC. It was the opening of a California pipeline to Chapel Hill that has since been very fertile for the Tar Heels. (Tar Heel Blue)

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