IT’S HAPPENING!!! After a long, long time of waiting without even the usual injections of pseudo-basketball to keep us afloat, UNC Basketball is finally back in action tonight, hosting the College of Charleston Cougars to open what’s going to be probably the strangest college basketball season any of us is likely to ever see. But what’s important is that the sport we all love is back, and we should enjoy every game we get to see, because nothing is guaranteed right now.
The Heels will open this decade of basketball by hosting a fairly local foe that they haven’t seen since the opening of the 2010’s, when John Henson and company edged out the Cougars in Chapel Hill, 74-69, to end a 3-year home-and-home-and-home with the program that ended up going entirely with the home teams, which is to say 2-1 in the Tar Heels’ favor.