Operation Basketball: Heels Unfazed By Expectations

Posted Oct 22, 2007

The ACC media unanimously voted North Carolina as the conference’s top team in the preseason poll at the league’s Operation Basketball event on Sunday. But for a program that’s earned that achievement an ACC-record 17 times, it’s just par for the course. “It comes with the territory,” junior Marcus Ginyard said Sunday. “Everybody always expects big things out of North Carolina.” (Inside Carolina)

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