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UNC Basketball: What if these Tar Heels had stayed on campus?

By Bryson Gordon

Apr 3, 2017; Phoenix, AZ, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams celebrates after defeating the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the championship game of the 2017 NCAA Men's Final Four at University of Phoenix Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 3, 2017; Phoenix, AZ, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams celebrates after defeating the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the championship game of the 2017 NCAA Men's Final Four at University of Phoenix Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports /
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Mandatory Credit: Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports
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2017-2018 North Carolina Tar Heels

While it is still early, and we do not know the landscape of college basketball for next year, it is not out of the realm of possibility the Heels could return to a third straight Final Four.

Sure, this team is losing seniors Isaiah Hicks, Kennedy Meeks, and Nate Britt among others, but they still have enough to make another run.

Justin Jackson has already declared for the draft, with an agent. Tony Bradley Jr. announced he was declaring for the NBA Draft but will not hire an agent. But lets play hypotheticals.

Add Jackson in with Joel Berry, Bradley, Jalek Felton, and Theo Pinson. That would be a strong lineup, one which would likely be favored to win the ACC.

The Heels are also adding Garrison Brooks, Brandon Huffman, Sterling Manley, and Andrew Platek, with the possibility of Kevin Knox!

It is not likely that Knox would come to UNC had Jackson stayed, so imagine this Heels team with one or the other.

Either way, it is fun to imagine the possibility of this team staying together, and going for their third straight Final Four, and a second straight title.

Depending on the decisions of Joel Berry and Tony Bradley, this team could be right back in the same spot next year!

Prediction: With Jackson, this team would have been Final Four good!

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