“This is the dream”: How Cameron Johnson helped lead UNC’s takedown of No. 1 Duke

Posted Feb 21, 2019
The national anthem blared in front of a sea of royal blue. Cameron Johnson stood in Cameron Indoor Stadium, thinking. He leaned over to tell his teammates, “This is the dream, right here,” the graduate student said. “We living the dream just to be playing in this game.” Johnson wasn’t overcome with the pressure of playing the No. 1 team in the country on its home court. (Daily Tar Heel)

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