A past president and not looking past the present: A storybook night for the Tar Heels

Posted Feb 22, 2019
It’s not often a former president of the United States stops by your locker room before a rivalry game. And it’s not often that your night gets better after getting a pep talk from Barack Obama. But somehow, that’s what happened for North Carolina on a most-unusual night in a most-unusual rivalry as the Tar Heels cruised to an 88-72 victory over Duke. (Greensboro News & Record)

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