Playing Career
Doherty played high school basketball on his native Long Island at Holy Trinity High School before being recruited to North Carolina by legendary coach Dean Smith in 1980. Doherty was a four-year letterman and sometimes starter for North Carolina, and in those four seasons the Tar Heels amassed a record of 117 wins and 21 losses and won the NCAA National Championship in 1982.
Doherty was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the sixth round, with the 119th overall pick, of the 1984 NBA Draft. Doherty never played in the NBA and went on to work on Wall Street for several years.
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