Tar Heel Trailblazer: Willie Cooper

Posted Feb 15, 2020
Nearly 56 years since he last donned a UNC Basketball uniform, Willie Cooper still thinks about what could have been. He wonders what might have happened had he – a member of UNC's 1964-65 freshman team and the first African-American to play basketball for an ACC Carolinas school – made varsity as a sophomore, two years before Charlie Scott. (GoHeels.com)

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