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Tar Heels, Jayhawks enter NCAA title tilt with common roots

Among those coached by basketball's inventor, Dr. James Naismith, who famously tacked up those peach baskets at the Springfield YMCA, was an irascible youngster named Forrest Allen, who would go by the nickname “Phog.” Phog Allen would later take over the Kansas Jayhawks and coach a young man from southeast Kansas named Dean Smith. (Associated Press) Final Four notebook: Brady Manek has been UNC's most efficient NCAA tournament scorer
Kansas coach Bill Self attributes Brady Manek's improvement at UNC to Tar Heels coach Hubert Davis. "He was a threat always at (Oklahoma), but Hubert’s.