Will Graves: UNC's unlikely leader

Posted Oct 20, 2009
Will Graves considers himself a leader, a role model for the youngsters on the UNC basketball team. Chances are, the 21-year-old junior from Greensboro wouldn't have said that seven months ago. Suspended for the final 18 games of the Tar Heels' national championship run, Graves wasn't even allowed to sit on the bench during the NCAA tournament. "I hope it hurt. And I don't mind saying that. I hope it really hurt," Heels coach Roy Williams said. It did. (Greensboro News & Record)

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