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Lucas: Feel Good

By Adam Lucas

It's very, very difficult to win an Atlantic Coast Conference basketball game.

Most of us have forgotten this, because we have watched North Carolina do it with relative ease for years or decades or generations. But it's really, really hard. Great coaches come into the ACC and fail almost every season.

So in the wake of Carolina's 88-65 thrashing of Georgia Tech on Saturday night, let's do something we very rarely do over the course of a season, unless it's a big win over a rival or a top-10 showdown: let's enjoy it.