Heels top Pack, get #1 NCAA seed

Posted Mar 12, 2007

As he snipped his portion of the ACC Championship net, North Carolina freshman Brandan Wright couldn't help but imagine what it might be like to do the same thing three weeks from now. In Atlanta. After the NCAA title game. By surviving a late-game onslaught by the inspired, sharpshooting, desperate, exhausted, 10th-seeded Wolfpack, 89-80, Wright and the rest of his teammates may have a better chance to find out. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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