One of the Best Teams to Never Win It: The 2016 Tar Heels

Posted Apr 15, 2020
The terrible thing about the 2016 NCAA championship game, other than how the loss happened, is who the loss happened to. Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson didn’t deserve for their college careers to end the way they did, and it was sickening there wasn’t a way for them to get redemption. The good news? The 2016-17 team got the job done in their honor. (Tar Heel Blog)

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