College Basketball's Best "What If" Teams of All Time: 1996-97 Tar Heels
Posted Oct 30, 2019
The what-if 1997 Tar Heels would have been one of the best teams of all time. Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison were on the 1997 team. Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace could have stuck around until '97, too. And Kobe Bryant could have played at UNC. A fictional starting five of Kobe, Stackhouse, Carter, Jamison, and Wallace is unparalleled.
(ESPN.com)
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