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UNC Basketball: Jerod Haase, the apprentice

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In 1993, Roy Williams led the Kansas Jayhawks to the Final Four, where they would fall to Dean Smith's eventual champion Tar Heels. But the weekend before, Roy's curiosity was piqued by a scrappy young freshman guard from Cal-Berkley, who had helped lead the Golden Bears to a shocking upset of the Grant Hill-Bobby Hurley Duke Blue Devils before losing to the Jayhawks in the Sweet Sixteen.

Roy was hardly the only person wowed by a freshman Cal guard. Everyone in America read the headline that weekend: "Duke 3-Peat KO'ed by a Kidd." But there was a difference.