The North Carolina Tar Heels were shut down offensively and couldn’t string together enough good possessions to keep the Pittsburgh Panthers at bay, and Pitt’s Jamarius Burton hit the game-winning free throws with 3.4 seconds left to complete his team’s season sweep of the Heels with a 65-64 win. It was the Heels’ first loss at home this season.
The game was a brickfest early, with both teams starting 1/5 from the field before both stringing together a couple of field goals, including early three-pointers from Caleb Love and Pete Nance. Those triples helped UNC open up a 9-5 lead early, and the margin wouldn’t change much until there were about 8 minutes left in the game, when a cold streak for UNC coincided with Pitt’s Nelly Cummings getting hot, and he led his team on a 10-0 run that ended with them taking their first lead of the game with about five minutes to go.