Lucas: Senior Appreciation

Posted Mar 5, 2008

While Mr. Thomas was in the Tar Heel locker room with video camera rolling--"I'm going to watch this over and over," he said--Mrs. Thomas sat outside the hallway on a chair, patiently awaiting her son. The evening's second hug--and maybe those tears--were yet to come. Two questions for her, before senior night is over. First: what has Carolina Basketball meant to Quentin Thomas? And what has Quentin Thomas meant to Carolina Basketball? (Tar Heel Blue)

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