The Dean Smith Era Began With the Famous Three-Peat

Posted Jan 23, 2018
Rusty Clark, Bill Bunting, Dick Grubar, Joe Brown and Gerald Tuttle – the famed Class of 1969 – gave North Carolina the height and depth it lacked in Dean Smith’s first five sea­sons. But their biggest gift to UNC bas­ketball was the freedom that allowed the stars of the team to play where – and how – they would be most effective. Lewis and Miller were Smith’s first two mar­quee recruits. (Chapelboro.com)

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