Michael Malone said no to North Carolina at first. An Easter Sunday pitch changed that

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — As if that staging was accidental.As if North Carolina, on the day it formally introduced Michael Malone as its new head coach, just lucked into such perfect positioning. As if it didn’t want to set the tone from tipoff of what is expected of the program’s first “outside the family” hire since Frank McGuire back in 1952.Advertisement