North Carolina's highly touted sophomore class hitting its stride in Year 2

Posted Feb 27, 2016
Justin Jackson, Joel Berry and Theo Pinson are starting to fulfill their potential, even if they're doing it a year later than the current landscape of college basketball deems acceptable. They were a big reason why the seventh-ranked, first-place Tar Heels overcame an early deficit and rolled to an 80-68 victory at N.C. State on Wednesday night. (Fayetteville Observer)

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