2017 Championship Game Revisited: Who Remains?

Posted Dec 13, 2018
UNC and Gonzaga have changed a bit in the 619 days since the Tar Heels defeated the Zags in the 2017 NCAA championship game, though each team still has five players remaining from those rosters. Only one, Gonzaga’s Josh Perkins, started that night on Phoenix, and only four players got into the game: Perkins and Jeremy Jones for Gonzaga and Luke Maye and Seventh Woods for UNC. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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