The funny thing about a basketball season is that you never know where the turning points might be.
This looked like a fairly nondescript two-game homestand, as Carolina finally returned to the Smith Center to host Georgia Tech and The Citadel. It's not the most marquee part of the schedule. It's not a segment anyone circled when the schedule was released.
But it might be the time when the 2022-23 Tar Heels realized that playing basketball could indeed be fun.
The first nine games of the season were a slog.