“Three Things Learned”: UNC 76, Notre Dame 77

I thought very hard about copy+pasting my last Three Things Learned into this article. For a refresher, those three things were: Duke was not sustainable (still true), this team might be irreparably broken (yup), and this team is supernaturally cursed (ohh yeah). There are only so many times, after all, that we can find new ways to describe the same game script we’ve seen 4 times in UNC’s last four games. An early lead and control of the game into the second half, a scoring drought, sudden inability to defend what had been routine earlier, and an opposing team making good on UNC’s attempt to give the game away, no matter how unlikely.