Brice Johnson, in his entire basketball career, from AAU and high school to four years at North Carolina, had never cut down a net. Not once.
Some of his teammates certainly have, but Johnson made it nearly to the end of his four years with the Tar Heels before he ascended a platform, was handed a pair of safety scissors and snipped a piece of the net as he did late Saturday night in Washington after winning the ACC championship.
That’s an experience that cannot be replicated or simulated. The Tar Heels head into the NCAA tournament having finally won something tangible.