There is no good way to lose the crown. Perhaps a close game might have been more honorable, but it would have been no less unbearable. Maybe had the Aggies shot a preposterous percentage we could have taken solace in the fact that every dog has its day. But a loss is a loss and, in my opinion, the Tar Heels lost to a better team that was a nightmare matchup for us. That’s hard to swallow, but swallow it we must. And once we have, let’s take a moment to appreciate two special young men that we saw play their last game in Carolina blue.