Grumble

On the bright side, UNC did not lose to the eventual national champions. They lost to a team with no bench, a lackluster half-court offense, and a late-game performance that actually had their coach yelling more at his players than at the refs.

And yes, Carolina fans are supposed to feel good about this.

This is still a team of freshmen, and in crunch time, they played like freshmen. Frasor blunders into a Williams block on a must score possession, Green fails to pay attention to the score and clock, and there goes the ballgame. On the other hand though, when the game went south early in the second half, they had the bench that could come in and turn it around, and better yet the presence of mind to capitalize on that momentum shift. This is the first game in a while where it really looks lke the team is improving. And with the top two teams in the ACC cutting it closer and closer with each passing game, this is shaping up to be a very interesting end of the season run.