NEW ORLEANS—The tears.
That is what I hope I never, ever forget about tonight.
When the final buzzer sounded on Carolina's 81-77 win over Duke in the Superdome, there was so much cheering and yelling and screaming. But there was something else, something I have never seen at any Carolina basketball game ever:
There were tears. So many tears. Not on the court, not like in 2017 when the Tar Heels completed the redemption tour. But in the stands. I saw eleven year olds crying and I saw 80 year olds crying and I saw 45 year olds crying.