Sports Illustrated College Basketball Power Rankings
Posted Feb 16, 2017
10. North Carolina Tar Heels: Plenty of teams—rival Duke being one of them—have had more tumultuous seasons than North Carolina’s, but still: Wednesday’s 97–73 rout of NC State was the first time the Tar Heels started the five guys we projected to start in the preseason: Joel Berry II, Theo Pinson, Justin Jackson, Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks.
(Sports Illustrated)
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