The New Blue Heaven Standing Test Of Time
Posted Jan 18, 2006
The Dean Smith Center has now sat in the southern-most point of campus for more than 20 years, taken for granted as the Tar Heels' basketball home since 1986. But during its construction and maiden years, what we all now know as the Dean Dome was the eighth wonder of the college sports world, a giant flying saucer from a Steven Spielberg movie, painstakingly erected like one of the great expansion bridges. (Tar Heel Blue)
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