UNC Basketball: The October Surprise in Print

For longtime UNC partisans, John Kilgo provided much needed Carolina content in the days before the explosion of sports media in the Internet age.

With a friendship kindled early in Dean Smith’s career at UNC, Kilgo supplemented his existing media career by hosting the weekly Carolina basketball radio and television programs, and later by producing UNC newsletters and the Carolina Blue magazines.

When going through some boxes recently, I found a copy of John Kilgo’s Carolina Basketball, previewing the 1997-98 season:

The publication was a well-researched and in-depth look at the North Carolina Tar Heels.