During North Carolina’s three-game losing streak, teams defeated the Tar Heels by knocking down the three ball.
UNC’s opponent Saturday night, Pittsburgh, took the same approach early, and for a while it worked. Eventually the Panthers cooled off and the Tar Heels heated up, getting back in the win column with a 96-65 win in the Dean E. Smith Center.
North Carolina’s three-game losing streak was the first of its kind since 2014, and they hadn’t lost four in a row since 2010, the only four-game steak in the Roy Williams era. Early on Pitt looked like they came to make some unwanted history.