These last two games have felt like a completely different season than what we previously watched of the Tar Heels. You hope that when a team gets an off week in the middle of the season they take advantage of it, and sure enough it’s hard to argue that Carolina has not done that.
Now the Tar Heels get another off week before a final stretch of a home game against Wake, at a struggling Boston College, and then hosting a rebounding N.C. State. All of a sudden, the Tar Heels are staring down salvaging what could have been a lost season, and in the process they’ve shaken off two big weights tugging at Mack Brown.