Here are the rules:
1. Pick 1 Carolina player.
2. Anyone he played with at UNC is eligible to be on "his team."
3. Build a team of up to 10 players.
So . . . your team could include some players who didn't play with each other, but they all played with the central character you pick. For example, on my Phil Ford team, Kupchak and O'Koren never played together.
So here's my Phil Ford team:
Phil Ford
Walter Davis
Mike O'Koren
Mitch Kupchak
Tommy LaGarde
Al Wood
John Kuester
Dudley Bradley
Joe Wolf
My next "obvious" player to choose would have been Hansbrough. I thought I'd leave that fun exercise to someone else.
Here's a good website to remind yourself of who played when and their stats. It's kind of rough to use for the early years, but still pretty good.
http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/north-carolina/
Complication #1: Before the 1972-3 season, freshmen didn't play with the varsity squad. Which makes it a little tougher to form teams around guys like Cunningham, Lewis or Miller. But you could still do well, I think, because you would be starting with those stars. If you pick Miller, you not only get Cunningham and Lewis, but you get Charlie Scott, Rusty Clark, Dick Grubar, Eddie Fogler and Bill Bunting.
Complication #2: There was no shot clock until 1985-6, when a 45-second clock was introduced. Reduced to 35 seconds in 1993-4, and now 30 seconds.
Complication #3: The 3-point shot became official across NCAA basketball in 1987 after 5 years of experimentation at the conference level.
1. Pick 1 Carolina player.
2. Anyone he played with at UNC is eligible to be on "his team."
3. Build a team of up to 10 players.
So . . . your team could include some players who didn't play with each other, but they all played with the central character you pick. For example, on my Phil Ford team, Kupchak and O'Koren never played together.
So here's my Phil Ford team:
Phil Ford
Walter Davis
Mike O'Koren
Mitch Kupchak
Tommy LaGarde
Al Wood
John Kuester
Dudley Bradley
Joe Wolf
My next "obvious" player to choose would have been Hansbrough. I thought I'd leave that fun exercise to someone else.
Here's a good website to remind yourself of who played when and their stats. It's kind of rough to use for the early years, but still pretty good.
http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/north-carolina/
Complication #1: Before the 1972-3 season, freshmen didn't play with the varsity squad. Which makes it a little tougher to form teams around guys like Cunningham, Lewis or Miller. But you could still do well, I think, because you would be starting with those stars. If you pick Miller, you not only get Cunningham and Lewis, but you get Charlie Scott, Rusty Clark, Dick Grubar, Eddie Fogler and Bill Bunting.
Complication #2: There was no shot clock until 1985-6, when a 45-second clock was introduced. Reduced to 35 seconds in 1993-4, and now 30 seconds.
Complication #3: The 3-point shot became official across NCAA basketball in 1987 after 5 years of experimentation at the conference level.
