Video: Tar Heel Legend Tommy Kearns Gives Back with Leadership Gift to Carolina Basketball

Posted Feb 12, 2019
Sixty-one years after Tommy Kearns was the starting point guard on UNC's 1957 basketball team, the first Tar Heel team to win an NCAA championship, Tommy and Jane Kearns will endow North Carolina Basketball with it's first ever position-specific scholarship: The Tommy Kearns Point Guard Endowment.

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