Heels hope experience equals hardware

Posted Oct 12, 2015
This is the last shot for Marcus Paige to hang a banner in the Smith Center, and he knows it. “There’s no next year for me at Carolina,” the senior guard said. Paige’s position, and North Carolina’s, is unusual in the current landscape of college basketball. The Tar Heels, one of the country’s elite programs, have a team built around experience rather than one-year players. (Greensboro News & Record)

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