I’m still numb.
We played the defending champions in a de facto road game, and we beat them so mercilessly that the final twelve minutes were little more than a coronation.
We’re moving on to our second Sweet 16 in three years.
Let’s break it down,
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It’s going to be tough to pick nits for most of this piece, so let’s get them all out of the way early - the opening eight minutes weren’t great. We were caught between two minds (dump it down low or run with the Tar Heels), and the end result was that we never really committed to either approach and found ourselves in a 20-13 hole with 11:37 remaining.