LOS ANGELES — When your team and your university play in the Sweet Sixteen in Los Angeles...
You book a flight and head west.
"It was pretty well determined that I was going to come to LA. The question was, can I get tickets? Do I have a hotel? Can I get on a flight? Who’s coming with me?"
Jimi Harrison graduated from UNC in 1978. Back then, Phil Ford was the All-American. This year, it’s RJ Davis.
"Now he is just such a shooting superstar. I feel really comfortable every time he has the ball in his hands," Harrison said.
Harrison has been to more than a dozen Sweet Sixteen games and nine Final Fours - every one of them special.
"Look forward to it every year; think ahead about it, look at where the towns are, where the regionals are going to be, who do I know there that I can stay with?"
In Hollywood, the actors are important - the director critical - but above everything else, a good script is what we crave. Harrison is already thinking ahead to Saturday and a potential matchup with Arizona and one Caleb Love.
"Loved him as a Tar Heel. He’s a great player. I’m just nervous about the whole thing because first of all, we have to get past Alabama and they have to get past Clemson," she said.
In a city of stars and celebrities, who will shine brightest tonight?
Jimi has her ticket to the show, hoping she gets that Hollywood-ending Carolina fans want to see.
