Lucas: Connecting The Dots

Posted Oct 29, 2022
It felt comfortable to have Ed Cota, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, and Shammond Williams back in the Smith Center again. The 1998 UNC Basketball team was so fun to watch that a missed dunk remains one of the most electric plays I've ever seen in the Smith Center (kids, ask your parents about the off the backboard attempt in the Duke game). (GoHeels.com)

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