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Three Things: North Carolina

Just a day after one of Tennessee’s worst performances in recent memory, the Vols laid a 89-72 beatdown on the North Carolina Tar Heels. Here are three things.

ZZ Pop

The Vols’ most important player Sunday was one of its youngest. And definitely its smallest, too.

Zakai Zeigler, or ZZ Pop as I’m gonna be calling him from now on (a play on the band “ZZ Top,” Zakai’s age and the way he can apparently “pop off,” scoring the ball unexpectedly) probably can’t believe how much his life has changed in the last six-ish months.