The 25 Greatest Games in UNC Basketball History: No. 1 - The 1957 National Championship Game

Posted Aug 11, 2019
The North Carolina Tar Heels Men’s Basketball Team has played 3,060 games. Should they play another 3,060, they will still never surpass the one played March 23rd, 1957. That night in Kansas City, an undefeated team made up of unlikely Tar Heel heroes squared off in enemy territory against the greatest individual force in the history of basketball. (Tar Heel Blog)

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