Jim Delany to Receive NCAA Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted Apr 5, 2023
Former North Carolina Tar Heels basketball standout and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany ’70 (’73 JD), who played in two Final Fours under Coach Dean Smith, will receive a lifetime achievement award from the NCAA. Delany will receive the inaugural Tom Jernstedt Lifetime Achievement Award. Delany played for the Tar Heels from 1967 to 1970. (Carolina Alumni Review)

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