Two years ago, during a season in which he emerged as one of North Carolina's weekend starters, Gianluca Dalatri left little time for anything else other than academics and baseball.
Also a freshman during the 2017 season, Austin Bergner said he and his fellow classmates rarely saw Dalatri outside of Boshamer Stadium. They'd often invite Dalatri out to eat. But Bergner can't recall him ever coming.
"I was so focused on doing my best that I wasn't hanging out with all the guys at Avery (Residence Hall)," Dalatri said. "I was doing, not my own thing all the time, but they called my room the attic because they felt like it was so far away from everything else.