Phil Ford, one of the best players in UNC basketball history, is this week’s guest on “Sports Legends of the Carolinas.”
Ford was a lot of things for UNC — the 1978 National Player of the Year, for one, as well as a longtime assistant basketball coach at UNC and also the point guard who made the Four Corners famous.
When the Rocky Mount native held up four fingers, back in the no-shot-clock era of college basketball, it was game over, because no one could run out the clock like Ford could. Ford held UNC’s scoring record for 30 years, despite playing in the era where there was no three-point shot, until Tyler Hansbrough finally broke that record in 2008. He still ranks No. 2 all-time on UNC’s scoring list.
