Can Carolina go unbeaten? It's possible
With the likes of Hansbrough, Lawson Tar Heels have huge advantage
With the likes of Hansbrough, Lawson Tar Heels have huge advantage
The Perfection Watch is officially on. That’s right, we’re talking about The Holy Grail of sports, the undefeated season. And it seems North Carolina is very much in the hunt.
Tyler Hansbrough and the rest of the Tar Heels are about to become college basketball’s version of Tom Brady and the 2007 New England Patriots. There will be pressure. There will be buildup. A date with Duke in February is already circled on the calendar.
As silly as it sounds in the first week of December, we are searching the college hoops landscape for a worthy opponent who can challenge No. 1 North Carolina. Kentucky couldn’t do it. Notre Dame wasn’t up to the task last week in Maui. Now Michigan State can be crossed off the list, too.
A talented, but short-handed, group of Spartans offered very little resistance Wednesday night in Detroit. North Carolina was expected to win this hyped-up Big Ten/ACC Challenge contest at Ford Field — but certainly not by a score of 98-63. With 12 minutes remaining and North Carolina leading 71-43, analyst Dick Vitale was totally ignoring the events on the floor and having flashbacks to his coaching career in Detroit.
Not exactly an evening of suspense on ESPN.
If there was any consolation for Tom Izzo’s team it was the fact the Tar Heels fell short of 100 points. But that may have been a mercy ruling from coach Roy Williams. North Carolina had scored more than 100 points in three of its last four games, beating Chaminade 115-70, Notre Dame 102-87, and North Carolina-Asheville 116-48. And Hansbrough didn’t even play against Asheville.
2 comments:
I just don't think stuff like this should have been allowed to be posted on my Birthday.
does any one care about UNC? If there is less than 2 comments saying they care (by 2 different people!)then I say we ban the UNC talk and stick with the wildcat talk!
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