CHAPEL HILL
It was just like old times, in a way, at one point during a North Carolina practice on Tuesday: Joel Berry and Theo Pinson, Justin Jackson and Isaiah Hicks all on the court together, running a drill, a player wearing a No. 5 running it alongside them.
For years that had been Marcus Paige’s number. It will hang high in the Smith Center, eventually, once they get around to putting it up there. Brice Johnson’s No. 11 will be in the rafters, too, whenever UNC’s new banners arrive, perhaps in a shipment including the one recognizing another Final Four.