Tar Heels hope they've learned lesson of toughness

Posted Mar 24, 2017
If the South Regional is being billed as three blue blood programs and Butler, then North Carolina isn’t buying it. “They’re right there with us and they’re right there deserving being in the Sweet Sixteen, and we’ve got to go out there and play tomorrow like we’re playing against an extremely good team, which we are,” guard Justin Jackson said Thursday. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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