Tar Heels gain from worldly experience
Posted Jul 20, 2007
Chapel Hill is making a big contribution to USA basketball this summer. Deon Thompson, the University of North Carolina's 6-foot-8 rising sophomore from Los Angeles, is a member of the under-19 team national team playing in the world championships in Serbia. Wayne Ellington, a 6-foot-4 rising sophomore guard from near Philadelphia, is a finalist for the Pan American Games team.
(Chapel Hill News)
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