Thursday night was a little closer than it should have been.
It was to be expected, truth be told. Coming off the high of big wins at Carmichael, staring at a season-defining road trip that has them criss-crossing almost the whole footprint of the ACC, and the start of the trip being the team at the bottom of the standings, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that Courtney Banghart’s Tar Heels came out slow.
If all you did was look at the final score-a 72-57 win-you’d have never caught the fact that Pittsburgh actually led the vast majority of the game.