Top 40 UNC football and basketball players of all time: No. 30 - Rasheed Wallace

Posted May 13, 2022
Rasheed Wallace played just two seasons at UNC, earing second-team All-America honors as a sophomore after averaging 17 points and 8 rebounds per game while shooting 65 percent from the field. He was first-team All-ACC that season and was key in the Tar Heels reaching the 1995 Final Four. He was the fourth overall pick in the 1995 NBA Draft. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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