Terry Fair, who helped lead Georgia Basketball to the 1983 NCAA Final Four, passed away of natural causes Thursday evening in his hometown of Macon. He was 59.
Fair was a four-year starter for the Bulldogs from 1979-83, culminating his college career by leading Georgia to an improbable Final Four appearance in the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1983.
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