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Young Tar Heels ready to begin

Posted Oct 14, 2005

, , , and dominated conversation at North Carolina's basketball media day - even if they could barely participate in it. The highly recruited group, which figures to play a big part in replacing all the Tar Heels lost in the offseason, is off limits to the media until after the team's Nov. 19 season opener - a longstanding tradition coach said he hoped would give his newcomers time to adjust to the sometimes blinding glare of big-time college basketball. (New Bern Sun Journal)

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