Top hoops recruit Harrison Barnes picks UNC
Posted Nov 14, 2009
In front of an anxious crowd at his high school and a national TV audience on ESPN-U Friday afternoon, top-ranked recruit Harrison Barnes walked over to a laptop to connect by video conference to the coach whose school he planned to sign with. After an awkward, 70-second pause while the video link was established, coach Roy Williams and the North Carolina team appeared on the projection screen at the gym at Ames High School in Iowa. Cheers erupted in the gym.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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