RALEIGH
The first time Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson met, which has been about three and a half years ago now, Paige’s first thought went something like this: man, this guy is quiet.
“He just never spoke,” Paige, the Tar Heels’ senior guard, said on Wednesday. “He was so quiet that I really didn’t have much thought at all. I was like, here’s this guy – he doesn’t speak. Like, I’ve got to live with this guy? This is going to be awkward.”
Johnson, the senior forward, was sitting a few feet away inside UNC’s locker room in PNC Arena, where the Tar Heels, the No.