As the Heels completed their collapse against Duke, the Tar Heel Blog slack chat turned to comparisons of past losses. Comparisons were made to other recent Carolina losses that mirrored this one, with some debate on which loss this one resembles most. The fact that there were multiple bad losses to compare the Duke game to is an indictment of how much the Mack 2.0 era has underperformed relative to expectations.
After the James Madison loss, I saw a stat that summed up the Mack Brown 2.0 era perfectly: the Heels have lost as a double digit favorite eight times.