Tar Heels ignore naysayers

Posted Mar 23, 2012
Harrison Barnes heard the doubters and no, he wasn't happy. Kendall Marshall hadn't even had the surgery yet on his broken wrist, and already the naysayers were doubting a North Carolina team that was the top seed in the NCAA tournament's Midwest Regional. Barnes, the sophomore forward from Ames, took offense to all that talk. He bristled earlier in the week, but now he took it a little more in stride. (Burlington Hawk Eye)

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