Living the dream: Toby Egbuna making most as Tar Heel walk-on

Posted Jan 2, 2016
Heading into his last semester as a business major at North Carolina and a member of the nationally-ranked UNC basketball team, Toby Egbuna has turned his ideas into a reality — living a dream he wasn’t even sure was possible at first. “Everything has been so perfect,” Egbuna said. “I can’t think of a way my experience at UNC could have gone any better.” (Winston-Salem Journal)

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