North Carolina-Gonzaga was far from pretty, but Tar Heels a champion all the same
Posted Apr 4, 2017
The story of the whistles and clanks and often unsightly basketball? Now it was just an artless means to a beautiful end—to Joel Berry knocking down a final free throw while fighting back tears, to Theo Pinson grabbing a final rebound and then flinging it into the air in celebration, to a cluster of Carolina blue-clad students triumphantly chanting “the ceiling is the roof!”
(Sports Illustrated)
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