One of the Best Teams to Never Win it: The 1968 Tar Heels

Posted Apr 18, 2020
The 1967-68 North Carolina basketball team had a tough schedule that season. In the first seven games of the season, four opponents were ranked in the AP Top 10. UNC won three of those four games. After a loss in the third game of the season in a true road game against eighth-ranked Vanderbilt, the Tar Heels went on a 20-game winning streak. (Tar Heel Blog)

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