Tar Heels need Brice Johnson to be a first rounder
Posted Jun 18, 2016
It’s not often that North Carolina goes two years in a row without pumping out a first-round pick in the NBA Draft. Since leaving Kansas to become UNC’s head coach in 2003, Roy Williams has produced 15 first-rounders. The last time the program went back-to-back years without sending a player to the first round was after his first season as the head man in Chapel Hill, back in 2004.
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