Blue Steel: New Look to an Old Tradition
Posted Mar 9, 2011
The blue team. The JV guys. The parentheses. North Carolina fans have called the walk-ons all of those things and more over the years, but seniors Daniel Bolick, Van Hatchell and D.J. Johnston and juniors Stewart Cooper, Patrick Crouch and David Dupont have added another title to that list – Blue Steel.
(Inside Carolina)
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