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Former UNC QB joins basketball team

The North Carolina Tar Heels announced that they have added two more members to their basketball team on Tuesday.

Head coach Roy Williams added senior guard Justin Coleman and junior guard Kanler Coker to the roster. Coleman was added on a athletics grant-in-aid as he appeared in 10 games for the team last season.

ACC Sports writes:

“We had one scholarship available and we realized what kind of youngster we had on our team as a walk-on,” says head coach Roy Williams. “What he did for us last year, the quality of his character, the kind of adversity he has overcome in his basketball is really off the charts.