it's five if you include Roy Williams, who played for North Carolina's JV team
Pablo-did not know this but if he was on UNC's JV (or freshmen team--see below) I would consider him a player. My guess is back in the day their JV team could have beat many DI teams if not most DII and DIII teams. Back then freshmen couldn't play varsity and I remember that when Lew Alcinder was a frosh at UCLA his freshmen team would consistently beat the championship caliber varsity team in scrimmages. Williams connection and exposure alone to Smith while a student at UNC may have been closer then some of the players riding the bench.
According to Roy's wiki site:
Williams lettered in basketball and baseball at
T. C. Roberson High School near Asheville all four years.
[8] In basketball, playing for Coach Buddy Baldwin, he was named all-county and all-conference for two years (1967 and 1968), all-western North Carolina in 1968 and served as captain in the North Carolina Blue-White All-Star Game.
[8]
Williams went on to play on the freshman team at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and study the game under legendary coach
Dean Smith. When Williams was a sophomore at Carolina, he asked Smith if he could attend his practices and would sit in the bleachers taking notes on Smith's coaching.
[10] Williams also volunteered to keep statistics for Smith at home games and worked in Smith's summer camps.
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