Three Things: Men's Basketball Banquet

Posted Apr 25, 2012
The men’s basketball team had their annual team banquet at the Carolina Club on Thursday, April 19th. Here are three things we learned: 1. Walk-on Stewart Cooper stole the stage with his senior speech. He congratulated Jerod Haase on his new head coaching position at UAB. He expressed his disappointment that it didn’t happen earlier because “you could have recruited me and built a program around me.” (Tar Heel Monthly)

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