Why is this Tar Heels squad so much better?

Posted Feb 28, 2011
Tyler Zeller sat in the players lounge in the Dean Smith Center on Sunday night – not long after he and his UNC teammates had tied Duke for the ACC lead – and answered yet another question about why last year's Tar Heel team stunk, and why this team doesn't. "I think everybody's bought into what Coach wanted us to do,'' Zeller answered. (Sporting News)

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