Top 30 UNC Basketball Teams Of All-Time: No. 15 - 1945-46

Posted Jun 16, 2020
The 1945-46 UNC basketball team is very interesting. Playing before nearly 19,000 at the old Madison Square Garden 15 years before Dean Smith became the Tar Heels' coach, UNC was a few missed free throws and foul trouble away from winning a national title that, coupled with the one in 1957, would have given Carolina two before Smith's arrival. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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