North Carolina Basketball Needed to Change. Will Its Plan to Return to the Top Pan Out?

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Midway through North Carolina’s regular-season finale against rival Duke last week, video boards inside the Dean Smith Center lit up with two program greats: Tyler Hansbrough and Justin Jackson, who starred on UNC’s most recent national championship teams.

As Hansbrough stood and whipped the crowd into a frenzy, fans around him erupted — including one bespectacled bystander seated nearby.

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But that man was no ordinary fan; it was Jim Tanner, the longtime NBA agent and 1990 UNC graduate who North Carolina hired as its first general manager on Feb. 25.

“Kind of a no-brainer hire,” said Hansbrough, formerly represented by Tanner, as was Jackson. “He’s very well-connected, and

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