More questions than answers as basketball season starts Friday
Posted Nov 6, 2012
UNC, which begins the season at the Smith Center on Friday night against Gardner-Webb, last faced as many questions as it does now in 2009-10, after losing four starters from a national championship team. Dexter Strickland was a freshman then. Yet that was then, he said. And this is now. “I think we’ve just got to prove everybody wrong,” Strickland said.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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