This Year’s Tar Heels Fit the Mold of a Champion

Posted Mar 19, 2008

If this team is anything like the 2005 squad, it could be another memorable run for the Tar Heels and Coach Roy Williams. “I think there are a lot of similarities,” Clemson Coach Oliver Purnell said Sunday after the Tigers lost to North Carolina in the A.C.C. final. “They’re built for a title run, I don’t think there’s any question about it.” And that starts with Tyler Hansbrough. (New York Times)

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