Long, light-blue line is the selling point for Cole Anthony at Carolina

Posted Oct 2, 2019
Point Guard University. Cole Anthony will join the long light-blue line of young men who go to UNC to lead the basketball program, a lineage that goes back to Tommy Kearns and runs through a college basketball history in and of itself. Anthony probably has yet to hear of Kearns, who led the 1957 Tar Heels to an NCAA title, but he’s familiar with the last few. (Greensboro News & Record)

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