The ceiling is the roof, Michael Jordan informed the Smith Center crowd at halftime. It may be easier for semioticians to figure out what exactly MJ’s malaprop meant than it will be for anyone else to separate North Carolina and Duke, two teams a total of one point apart after splitting their two regular-season meetings.
Fortunately, they're on conflicting flight paths toward Friday night's first ACC semifinal, if both advance in Brooklyn. This feels like the kind of season that needs a third meeting, after two games decided by missed free throws and extraordinary individual performances. It might just get it.