After the tough road that was Maui, the ACC/SEC Challenge, and the conference season opener, the North Carolina Tar Heels have, in theory, a bit of a break this weekend as LaSalle comes to Chapel Hill.
While the Explorers of the Atlantic 10 aren’t pushovers, they’re not quite the same as the run of Top 25 and/or power conference opponents that UNC have played dating back to before Thanksgiving. Fran Dunphy — previously of Penn and Temple fame — has his LaSalle team at 6-4, with wins over Temple and the American team that UNC also beat, while they’ve taken less than stellar losses to UC San Diego and Illinois Chicago.