Somewhere within every great Carolina comeback is, by definition, a Carolina team that played very, very poorly to get in that hole in the first place. The Tar Heels certainly fit that criteria on Wednesday night.
Pittsburgh did not have an elaborate gameplan. This was not a schematic triumph. This was simply a Panther team that came into Chapel Hill intent on roughing up the Tar Heels, determined to be the more physical team…and they did it.
"The tougher team won," Hubert Davis said very simply in his postgame Tar Heel Sports Network interview.