Ginyard: "It’s a now or never thing"

Posted Feb 28, 2007

Last season’s North Carolina squad was not as deep, not as fast and certainly not as heralded. "But I do believe that last year's team would beat this year's team at this point in the season," sophomore Marcus Ginyard said today. "I think that the attitude, the drive the competitiveness was on another level last year. And that's the thing that disappoints me, personally, the most." (Raleigh News & Observer)

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