It was a Carolina basketball win for the ages Sunday afternoon, as Luke Maye’s last-second shot lifted the Tar Heels over Kentucky and into the Final Four for a record 20th time.
And all along Franklin Street next to the UNC campus, the response from true-blue fans was ... jarringly sedate. Call it March Mildness.
Sure, some fans in houses near downtown poked their heads out their doors and whooped and hollered at their neighbors across the way. A few people honked horns and cheered as they drove through downtown. But traffic continued along Franklin Street unobstructed, and nothing was set afire.