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Lennie Rosenbluth, star of North Carolina Tar Heels' 1957 title team, dies at 89
Lennie Rosenbluth, who led North Carolina to its first basketball national title in 1957 with a victory over Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in the championship game, died Saturday. He was 89. Born and raised in the Bronx, Rosenbluth joined coach Frank McGuire and the Tar Heels in 1955 and was an all-Atlantic Coast Conference honoree in each of his three seasons. His No. 10 is one of only eight jerseys retired by UNC, along with those of Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Antawn Jamison, Tyler Hansbrough, Jack Cobb, George Glamack and James Worthy. He averaged 28.0 points in 1957 still the school record and beat out Chamberlain for the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year award. That '57 Tar Heels team went 32-0, capping its run with a triple-overtime victory over Chamberlain's Jayhawks. Rosenbluth scored 20 points in the championship game but fouled out late in regulation. Rosenbluth graduated in 1957, played briefly in the NBA, then became a high school teacher and basketball coach.
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