The Greensboro Coliseum was rocking all afternoon, decked out in pretty much 100% Carolina blue. The Tar Heels didn’t get to play this one in the Dean Dome, but they certainly brought all of their support with them. As Notre Dame surged late in the game, the crowd came more and more to life to rally behind the Heels.
One order of business before we get to the game: the refereeing in the second half was terrible. Let’s just admit that as a fact. The sheer volume of inexplicable phantom calls bordered on embarrassing. It’s often too easy to point to the refs when things aren’t going right, but I believe even anyone could see that it was bad.