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Dexter Strickland adjusts to UNC

Posted Nov 18, 2009
committed to UNC in January 2008 when his high school team played in the Nike Super 6 event at Madison Square Garden. But he didn't fully realize what it meant to be a Tar Heel until he first put on the powder blue uniform more than a year later when this college basketball season started. "I felt honored just to go to the same school as went to, , , all those guys." (SNY.tv)

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