Excelsior! you North Carolina Tar Heels. Onward to the Sweet 16 and the 2015 NCAA Tournament’s most stunning shoes.
Indeed, when the folks from Chapen Hill take the court against Wisconsin on Thursday, they’ll do so in an eye-popping new Air Jordan XX9 UNC PE, celebrating the team both in color and graphics.
Perhaps the most creative use yet of the XX9’s aesthetically limitless knit upper — although the “Photo Reel” edition may have something to say about that — the Tar Heels’ shoe features the school’s signature shade of light blue over the upper, with beloved mascot Rameses emblazoned along each lateral side. Navy blue contrasts on the tongue, liner and midsole, meanwhile, tying in with Rameses’s outline all the while, yielding the most school-spirited shoe in the Big Dance.
No release is expected for the Air Jordan XX9 UNC but, god, we can wish, can’t we? Updates if/as they develop. . . .
Photo credits: JD Lyon, Eric Hoots, Jordan Brand.