Lennie+Pete - Bio
Pete Brennan was first-team All-America and ACC Player of the Year in 1958, when he led the ACC in scoring and rebounding and was a first-round draft pick of the New York Knicks. Lennie Rosenbluth was first-team All-ACC as a sophomore, junior and senior, was ACC Player of the Year, a consensus All-America and National Player of the Year in 1957, when the Tar Heels finished 32-0 and won UNC’s first NCAA championship in basketball. Both Tar Heel greats have returned to Chapel Hill to live in their retirement years.
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Kansas and Wilt Go Down!
We really thought coach McGuire was joking when he mentioned Tommy Kearns jumping against Wilt Chamberlain at breakfast that morning.
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30-0 and Confident!
We were so confident by then that we felt like beating us was Kansas' problem, not the other way around because we were 30-0.
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On To The Final Four!
When we got back to campus on Monday, everybody we saw wanted to know if we were going undefeated and win the national championship.
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Band of Brothers
We always considered ourselves a band of brothers, and the 2012 Tar Heels are starting to look that way.
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Different Kind Of Pressure
We went into the 1957 ACC Tournament on a high after finishing the regular season with a big win at Duke and a 24-0 record, but there was still a lot of pressure because we had to keep winning.
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Pressure Mounts in Last Two Weeks
As our 1957 team headed into the final week of the regular season with a 22-0 record, we weren’t thinking about losing a game to take the pressure off going into the ACC Tournament.
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Last Few Weeks Can Define Your Season
As we predicted, last week would be a tough one for the Tar Heels, and it turned out a little tougher than we thought.
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Last Few Weeks Can Define Your Season
As we predicted, last week would be a tough one for the Tar Heels, and it turned out a little tougher than we thought.
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'Tough' Week Ahead For The Heels
We won the 1956 Dixie Classic, beating Utah, Duke and Wake Forest in December at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh.
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Intensity The Key
After our third game of the 1956-57 season, which we won over George Washington in Norfolk by 27 points, we faced our ACC opener at South Carolina in Columbia.
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Last Loss Motivated Us
The beginning of our run for the NCAA Championship in 1957 began when we lost to Wake Forest...
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