Chansky’s Notebook: Anniversary Ignored
Posted Mar 22, 2017
The 1966-67 team was Dean Smith’s sixth at North Carolina but his most important because it began the unparalleled dominance of the once-embattled young coach. That team – with Bob Lewis, Larry Miller, Dick Grubar, Rusty Clark and Bill Bunting in the starting lineup – won the ACC regular season and beat Duke for the third time in the ACC tournament final.
(Chapelboro.com)
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