There’s no getting around it: this isn’t your dad’s college basketball. Heck, it might not even be your older brother’s college basketball. Player movement is at an all-time high, and UNC’s roster this coming season paints a stunning picture: 12 of the Tar Heels’ 16 players were not on the team last year.
Of those four returners, only two are scholarship players. And of those two, only one has started a game.
That one is UNC’s last connection to what appears to be a bygone era of college basketball. Because once Seth Trimble plays out his senior year as a Tar Heel this spring, how many more will follow? Who else will stay four years at one program, often battling roster logjams and frustrating usage along the way?
Of course, Trimble did enter the transfer portal following his sophomore season. But the Tar Heel legacy kid – his older brother is former UNC standout J.P. Tokoto – found he couldn’t bear the thought of not being in Chapel Hill. A year later, the little brother is now the...
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