Pencil in UNC to snip the net in Detroit

Posted Jun 20, 2008

These Tar Heels figure to boast four 1,000-point producers by the time they take flight for Bracketville next March. They'll be, in other words, loaded. This became forgone-conclusion material the other day when point guard Ty Lawson, perimeter sniper Wayne Ellington and sixth-man energizer Danny Green announced en masse they'd withdrawn their names from NBA draft consideration and were staying in school. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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