Off the cuff: That two-point loss at Pittsburgh should have been 10-point victory for the Tar Heels if they had just done some things slightly below average. And it would have been a 15-point win had Jamarius Burton not played out of his @ss. There is no way Burton is that good but he certainly was that good against Carolina on this day. So, you have one opponent playing the best game of his career and your leading scorer - Caleb Love - has one of his worst games of his career. Love was just three of nine for seven points and he had just one assist. Also, the Tar Heels were an excellent six of 13 from beyond the arc in the first half but then they went one of nine in the second half. There was also a bad stretch in each half that did in the Tar Heels. In the first half, Carolina turned the ball over five times in six possessions as Pitt erased a nine-point UNC lead. In the second half, Carolina went nearly six minutes without a field goal as Pitt erased another nine-point lead. Even though there were just two returning Pitt players who scored in last year's Pitt win at Chapel Hill, you would have thought the Tar Heels would have had revenge on their minds. It will never get easier to beat Pitt in Pittsburgh as the students were out on Christmas break (probably called winter break) and other fans were at or gearing up for Pitt's 2 p.m. bowl game. |
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