Carolina has lost three games now this season. The two most recent ones to Connecticut and Kentucky had something in common: double-digit deficits in rebounding.
Rebounding against bigger teams has shown itself to be a problem, one painfully acute to Tar Heel fans raised in the church of Roy Williams. Carolina wins, Carolina loses. But they never get dismantled on the boards.
How to fix it? That’s a problem that will likely come with heavy trade-offs. The offense has gotten much more efficient with RJ Davis and Elliot Cadeau running together, but they’re small. And none of the posts on the bench are good enough to push Harrison Ingram to the three spot.