Besides winning obviously, the first game of the season for a team like the North Carolina Tar Heels is about checking out the team in a game that counts for the first time. High major teams like UNC tend to take on lower conference opposition to open their season. Above all, you obviously don’t want to lose to a team like that, but you also want to see which players have taken a step up from the previous year.
Based on what happened on Monday night, UNC definitely still has some kinks to work out. A bad stretch in the second half allowed Elon to make the game way closer than it need to be.