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Uniform
Re-re-design The UNC athletics department, under pressure from fans since it unveiled the interlocking "NC" logo on basketball uniforms last year, has decided to return to the more traditional look of spelling out "North Carolina" across the front of the jersey. The Nike-manufactured uniforms are very similar to the ones worn during most of the 1990s. "I know a great number of our fans will be pleased that the uniforms will once again say 'North Carolina,'" said Athletics Director Dick Baddour '66. "This issue clearly shows the passion Carolina basketball fans have for this program. Coach [Bill] Guthridge and I decided at the end of last season to go back to the previous design and Coach [Matt Doherty '84] has concurred with that decision." Along with the return of "North Carolina" to the uniforms, a few other minor changes were made. The white argyle pattern, designed by Alexander Julian '69, will still appear down the side of the jersey and shorts on the home uniform, but now a thicker blue band will serve as a background to the pattern. On the away uniform, the thicker band is white with a blue argyle pattern. Three other minor changes are the streamlining from three shades of blue to two, Carolina blue and navy, adding in small letters "Carolina" just below the waistline on the back of the shorts and moving the interlocking "NC" to either side of the shorts, directly below the argyle print. The interlocking-letter uniforms, designed by Michael Jordan '86, were introduced before the beginning of last season to give the uniforms a retro feel dating back to the 1920s. "We went with the 'NC' because nothing was more traditional than that logo, which the University has used since the early part of the century," Guthridge said. "Some of our alumni, students and fans wanted us to go back to 'North Carolina,' so we put it back on the uniforms." See the "new"
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