I may have seen the ghost of Tyler Hansbrough.
The Tar Heels had a herky-jerky start to the college basketball season against a game College of Charleston team. The comfortable margins at half-time (+9) and the final whistle (+19) belie the difficulty Carolina had scoring for stretches of the game. Five minutes into the second half, Charleston actually took a 1-point lead.
With senior ACC preseason Player of the Year Garrison Brooks struggling to find the bottom of the net, it was the team’s freshmen that provided the buckets. Point guard Caleb Love led all scorers with 17 points (8-8 free throw shooting), and R.