Top 30 UNC Basketball Teams Of All-Time: No. 19 - 1975-76
Posted Jun 11, 2020
A team with four gold-medal winning Olympians has to be pretty good, right? That was the case for the 1975-76 Tar Heels. Dean Smith was the U.S. Olympic basketball coach and four of his players - Walter Davis, Phil Ford, Tommy LaGarde, and Mitch Kupchak - made the squad. UNC waltzed into the ACC Tournament championship game owning a 25-2 record.
(Tar Heel Illustrated)
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