CHAPEL HILL
Where there was despair and disbelief on Wednesday, there was only laughter Saturday. North Carolina could do no wrong. Even Brice Johnson's late, offhanded heave from under his own basket just after the halftime buzzer went through the hoop, as did all the 3-pointers the Tar Heels missed against Duke.
Somehow, the North Carolina team that blew out Miami on Saturday is still the same team that contrived to lose to Duke on Wednesday. These are the Tar Heels, for better and worse – an erratic-shooting team that doesn't always play to the best of its ability but can look like the Harlem Globetrotters when it does.