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Article: Tar Heels and Wildcats now different teams; Arizona beat North Carolina in the first game of the season, but that seems like light years ago to coaches Lute Olson and Dean Smith.(special)

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March 29, 1997
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Way back in November, before Thanksgiving came and snow fell, Arizona and North Carolina opened the college basketball season at the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic in Springfield, Mass.

Arizona won that Nov. 22 game 82-73. The teams will meet again at 4:42 p.m. today in the national semifinals at the RCA Dome, but coaches Lute Olson of Arizona (23-9) and Dean Smith of North Carolina (28-6) say they are not the same teams.

"It seems like light years away," Olson said Friday. "Going into that game Dean had a lot of inexperience, we had a lot of inexperience and I'm not sure either one of us knew what to expect."

Junior guard Miles Simon, now the ...

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