For all it accomplished, this Tar Heel trio will remembered more for what it didn’t do
Posted Mar 29, 2012
Somehow, it’s only appropriate that a group of players that came in with such fanfare should leave with such a whimper. Because for all they accomplished individually, John Henson, Kendall Marshall and especially Harrison Barnes fell well short when it came to living up expectations as a group. “I wish we’d been able to bring our fans a national championship, but it wasn’t meant to be,” Henson said in his farewell statement.
(Wilmington Star News)
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