UNC's early draft entries in the Roy Williams era
Posted Mar 29, 2012
Four UNC underclassmen — Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Kendall Marshall and James Michael McAdoo — are still mulling whether to jump to the NBA Draft or return to Chapel Hill for another year. To commemorate their decisions, here's a bit of a history lesson on whatever became of the eight UNC underclassmen to jump to the draft early in coach Roy Williams' nine years at the helm:
(Greensboro News & Record)
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