The Notre Dame Fighting Irish got a crack at the North Carolina Tar Heels this afternoon on the heels of their gritty win yesterday afternoon. With a bunch of tired legs after not only yesterday’s game, but the four-overtime marathon over the weekend, a big key to this one was how well the stamina of the Irish would hold up. North Carolina is beatable, but their relative rest level gives them a significant advantage here.
The Tar Heels elected to put 6’6” Drake Powell on Markus Burton, perhaps recalling Burton’s difficulty at a size disadvantage against Andrej Stojakovic.