USS Carl Vinson is a go for North Carolina - Michigan State game
Posted Nov 11, 2011
In front of a Pacific sunset and with waves breaking nearby, UNC will start its basketball season and drive for a sixth national championship. North Carolina will play Michigan State at 7 p.m. EST today near San Diego on the USS Carl Vinson, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Coach Roy Williams of UNC was an assistant to Dean Smith in a game played at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy base in Hawaii.
(Winston-Salem Journal)
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