The Arena Decision and the UNC Basketball Family's Fight to Save the Smith Center

Posted Feb 4, 2026
In the hours before North Carolina took the court at Rupp Arena to play Kentucky on Tuesday, December 2, longtime Tar Heel basketball supporters Rusty Carter and Hunter Morin stepped into a small meeting room at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Lexington for an hour-long conversation with UNC executive associate athletic director Steve Newmark. (Inside Carolina)

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