CORAL GABLES—Thank goodness for the old guys.
Carolina's freshmen kept the Tar Heels in Tuesday night's game at Miami. Kerwin Walton pumped in three three-pointers, and Day'Ron Sharpe had 12 points and 16 rebounds, and Caleb Love played through a tough shooting night to make a clutch three-pointer for his only basket of the game.
That was enough to keep Carolina close to a depleted Miami team. But it was the upperclassmen who won it. Junior Leaky Black completed perhaps his best offensive game as a Tar Heel by swishing his fourth three-pointer in as many attempts, and senior Garrison Brooks stepped to the free throw line and made a pair of key shots, and senior Andrew Platek drove baseline for the game-winner.