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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama loved the gifts the North Carolina Tar Heels gave him Monday, but he had one more request for the 2009 national basketball champs.

"If somebody could please present me a jump shot, I need one of those!" Obama quipped in a celebration ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House.

Obama, a fervent basketball fan who grew up playing hoops in Hawaii, told his visitors they'd all done pretty well since he famously scrimmaged with them during a North Carolina campaign stop in April 2008.

"I'm not sure whose luck rubbed off on who - there was some good vibe there - because they're now the national champions and I'm now the president," Obama said to laughter outside the White House.

Obama thanked the Tar Heels, who waltzed through the NCAA Tournament this year, "for salvaging my bracket and vindicating me."

Obama filled out his March Madness brackets on live TV, picking UNC to win it all.

At the ceremony Monday, Roy Williams held up a blue-and-white Carolina jersey with "Obama" and the number 1 on it.

"That's what I'm talking about!" Obama crowed.

The five seniors who graduated Sunday presented Obama with a large framed photograph of the then-candidate in sweatpants posing with the team 13 months ago after their widely covered scrimmage in Chapel Hill.

"Tyler (Hansbrough) chose not to block my shot," Obama said to more laughter. "Of course, I was so intimidated by him being near me that I missed the shot."

Obama met privately with the team inside the White House before the ceremony.

Ty Lawson said afterward that Obama had complimented his play during the championship run.

"We didn't talk too much because I know he's a busy man," Lawson said. "I must have been doing something right that he was paying attention to my game."

— James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers

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President Barack Obama welcomed the North Carolina men’s basketball team to the White House on Monday, in honor of the Tar Heels’ winning the 2009 national championship. Jeff Zeleny reports on the scene over on the Caucus blog.

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A pickup game of basketball

A pickup game of basketball last spring brought good luck to the University of North Carolina's basketball team and to Barack Obama mortgages, the president said Monday as he welcomed the national champions to the White House.

North Carolina won the title this year. And Obama, who scrimmaged with the players during a campaign visit to Chapel Hill, N.C., won the state's Democratic primary and then carried North Carolina in November as he captured the presidency.

"I'm not sure whose luck rubbed off on who," Obama said Monday as he greeted the team on the White House's South Lawn real estate agent search. "I think there was just a good vibe going on there."

Obama said almost everyone was excited to have the Tar Heels stop by. The one exception, he said, was his personal aide Reggie Love, who won a title as a player for UNC's chief rival, Duke.

Obama picked North Carolina to win the national championship this year. He thanked the Tar Heels "for salvaging my bracket and vindicating me before the entire nation mortgage rate." The president's other picks for the NCAA tournament's Final Four never made it that far.

Obama praised coach Roy Williams for instilling "the importance of academics into all these guys, which is why they didn't just plow through the tournament field; they also had the highest graduation rate of anybody in the Final Four." He said the team also engages in public service, such as holding basketball clinics for handicapped children home mortgage.

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You my friend are way cool.   My best friend is an evangelical Christian who builds multi-million dollar houses in Utah.   I'm almost a socialist living in PA.   The key is that we respect each other and there's no jammin' opinions down each other's throat.  For those that said that Bush got dissed on similar visits, he deserves more than than it.  I'm not talking vengeance.  That's for simple-minded, crazy people.   His conscious will be present, front-and-center at what you call Judgement Day.  

He started an unnecessary war, indirectly killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians and troops (never mind the "low" number of American casualties but the significant number of permanently-wounded soldiers).   He was consumed with that war to the point that Wall St. ran across this country naked and nobody even noticed until someone opened up their blinds.

 This is simply a good story.    If you are for NCSU or Duke, I'm sorry.  UNC has an advantage much like the Yankees do with their inflated payrolls.    So be it.  They may have an advantage recruiting but you still have to coach and you still have to play-it-out all season long.

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and I prolly would not have gone.  more b/c "other athletes" elected not to show for George W. Bush. 

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