2009 NCAA Basketball Champions: UNC Tarheels

I'm a big fan of the North Carolina Tarheels. I was a Michael Jordan fan growing up and I found out that he went to college at UNC so I started following the basketball team. Janna and I had the opportunity last summer to visit the campus on our vacation. It's a beautiful campus and the basketball program has a great history of a winning tradition. The Tarheels ran through most of the competition during the tournament this year and beat Michigan State in the championship game decisively. It's good to see them bring another banner back to Chapel Hill, NC.

North Carolina: ACC champions...again!

My favorite college basketball team behind OU is North Carolina. I've had several people ask me how that came to pass and I explain that I was a Michael Jordan fan growing up and his Alma mater is UNC. So I began to follow the team in the early 90's and have been a fan ever since. When many of my peers were intrigued by the talented teams at UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas) or the Fab 5 at the University of Michigan, I became a fan of a program with a long history of tradition. Janna and I had the opportunity last summer to go to the UNC campus, but unfortunately the Dean Smith Center was closed because it was a Sunday. We didn't get to go inside, but it was cool to look in and see the court, the sea of Carolina blue chairs that surrounded the court and the multiple championship banners hanging from the rafters. Yesterday UNC beat their in state rivals Duke 79-71 to capture the regular season ACC championship. Put another banner up for the Tarheels!