PITTSBURGH
This is all new for North Carolina, which will enter the final month of the season atop the ACC’s Coastal Division, on a seven-game winning streak and, likely, back in the national rankings this late in the season for the first time since six years.
The Tar Heels just might have won their most important game of Larry Fedora’s coaching tenure on Thursday night – a 26-19 victory at Pittsburgh in which UNC rose to the moment instead of looking overwhelmed in it. And now the Tar Heels, as the cliché goes, are in the driver’s seat.