Josh Asiko remembers the win.
He recalls making his way over the arduous hill on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the only sliver of road that mattered in Chapel Hill that Monday night. One friend had his arm linked around him. The other lugged a life-size cardboard cutout of head coach Roy Williams.
Asiko slid his iPhone 6 from his pocket in the middle of his jog and texted his dad.
“Thank you for pushing me to come to Carolina,” the 2016 UNC graduate typed. “Thank you so much for pushing me to come here.