Lucas: November Dreams

Nearly sixty years ago, a group of teenagers from points across the United States came together and did something they had no idea would follow them for the rest of their lives.

That group was the national champion 1957 team, and five of the living members of that squad—Lennie Rosenbluth, Joe Quigg, Hilliard Greene, Tony Radovich and Bob Young—reunited this weekend and also took in Sunday’s 92-65 win over Fairfield.

They represent something Roy Williams will talk to his currently top-ranked Tar Heels—a group of mostly teenagers from points across the United States that aren’t that different, really, than their slightly older and grayer predecessors—about often over the next five months. There…