The men’s basketball teams at North Carolina and U.C.L.A., in wins against Ohio State and Kentucky, took to the big stage at Madison Square Garden and showed how tough they could be.
The night before Hubert Davis brought his University of North Carolina men’s basketball team to Madison Square Garden for the first time as a head coach, he showed his players video from a pair of seminal moments from his playing days with the rough and tumble 1990s Knicks: a full-scale melee with the Phoenix Suns and another with the Chicago Bulls that carried into the stands and almost into the lap of David Stern, then the N.