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Article: No doubt about it - Tar Heels are back Illinois will get first big test today when North Carolina (5-0) comes to town.(Sports)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- December 3, 2002
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Byline: Lindsey Willhite Daily Herald Sports Writer
After a disastrous season, the North Carolina Tar Heels have wasted no time stamping their footprint back onto the nation's roundball consciousness.
Judging by the sheer size of their revival, they're using freshman center Sean May's size-20 foot to do it.
North Carolina has been college basketball's biggest story of the early going after stomping its way to the Preseason NIT title.
Not only are the Tar Heels 5-0 and No. 12 in the new Associated Press poll, they're blasting teams such as former No. 2 Kansas using a three-freshmen, two-sophomores lineup.
That's what makes ...