Tar Heels’ run is fitting this year

Posted Mar 14, 2015
Yet here is UNC on the cusp of a championship game that will be played one month and one week since Dean Smith died. The Tar Heels of now look more like the Tar Heels of old, which means anything is possible when a title is at stake. UNC’s Kennedy Meeks –– a big man who’s not quite as big after losing nearly 50 pounds over the past season –– says he doesn’t know much about karma, but thinks something not of this world could be in the works. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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