In Elliot Cadeau’s 28 minutes on the floor last night, UNC outscored Pitt by 8 points. The Heels lost the game by 8.
Plus-minus is a fickle stat in basketball that if looked at too closely can lead you to some wrong and frankly dangerous conclusions, and among every past-the-box-score stat that we have, it’s probably the single least meaningful. But if there’s any information to be gleaned from it, that information lies in the outliers. And the only Tar Heel other than Cadeau with a positive plus-minus against Pittsburgh was Ven-Allen Lubin, who was +1 — I’d call that an outlier.