Blah. I’m not going to spend a lot of time with preamble, because I don’t want to restate the facts of that game just about as much as you don’t want to relive them. After a game in Chestnut Hill where the Heels looked like they’d finally learned to lock in and put away inferior competition, they traveled to South Bend against a Notre Dame team that hadn’t been much better than Boston College and, looking gassed at best and lackadaisical at worst, gave up a bad 73-78 loss to the Fighting Irish. Without sounding too many alarms, here’s what I’m taking away from this game:

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