In the North Carolina men’s basketball team’s 85-42 routing of Northern Iowa on Wednesday night, it was all about the bigs.
The Panthers elected to double team North Carolina’s forwards any time they got the ball on the block. And with just over three minutes left in the opening period, the No. 8 Tar Heels led by just one.
“In the first half, they were doubling big to big,” head coach Roy Williams said. “You’ve either got to make a quick move or throw it out. And I think we let that bother us more than it did in the second half.