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Published: Mar 04, 2007 12:30 AM
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Senior Day at North Carolina

 

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North Carolina seniors Reyshawn Terry, Wes Miller and Dewey Burke will be honored before today's 4 p.m. tip-off against Duke. In addition, they will start the game, and address the crowd after the final horn.

REYSHAWN TERRY

6-8 FORWARD, WINSTON-SALEM

SENIOR MOMENT: Terry, a two-year starter, scored a season-high 23 points on 7-for-8 shooting against Wake Forest.

MEMORABLE MOMENT: The athletic wing scored a career-high 25 points at Kentucky in December 2005. However, "winning the national championship was the most memorable thing for me,'' said Terry, a reserve on UNC's 2005 title team.

DULY NOTED: Terry, from Winston-Salem, was recruited by former coach Matt Doherty. Coach Roy Williams said he would have given Terry a release had he asked, but Terry wanted to play in Chapel Hill.

ROY WILLIAMS SAYS: "The University of North Carolina usually gets those guys who are Player of the Year, not second-team all-state [in high school]. But he worked -- he got better, bigger, stronger, faster, quicker. This year, he is the highest jumper on our team, the strongest guy in the weight room, the fastest runner. And he was not any of those when he came as a freshman. So that's how hard he's worked."

WES MILLER

5-11 GUARD, CHARLOTTE

SENIOR MOMENT: Played 17 minutes -- including 12 in the second half -- during UNC's 79-73 victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium. "This year's game against Duke, at Duke, was for me just a real emotional game," he said.

MEMORABLE MOMENT: "Really, the three 3s I hit against Kentucky, I felt like, were the turning point for me as a player in my career here,'' Miller said, referring to the Tar Heels' 83-79 victory in Lexington last season. "That was the first time I really felt completely confident, felt like I played with the same attitude and confidence I played with as a high school player."

DULY NOTED: Miller, who transferred from James Madison as a walk-on, earned a scholarship his junior season, when he started. But he gave it up this season so that coach Roy Williams could sign a six-player freshman class.

ROY WILLIAMS SAYS: "Last year, he far exceeded anyone's expectations, as far as his involvement, and his contributions to our team. The kind of kid you would like your grandson to be like; the kind of kid you would like your granddaughter to bring home."

DEWEY BURKE

6-0 GUARD, PHILADELPHIA

SENIOR MOMENT/MEMORABLE MOMENT: Scored a career high six points in six minutes against Penn. "My dad went there, I know probably half their roster -- I'm from the Philadelphia area and I played against them in high school, and summer league and stuff,'' Burke said. "And I hit two 3s, which was fun."

DULY NOTED: Burke, who transferred to UNC after playing football at Fairfield, has earned the nicknamed "Biscuit" for the number of times he has pushed the Tar Heels over the century mark at home -- thus earning the crowd reduced-price sausage biscuits from Bojangles'.

ROY WILLIAMS SAYS: "A tough little nut who I think will eventually get into coaching and has been extremely important to us."

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