RALEIGH
Larry Fedora had seen this kind of thing before, in dominant first quarters of North Carolina victories against Duke and Miami, and here it was again, another early onslaught that left an opponent reeling and the scoreboard operator busy.
Fedora, the Tar Heels’ coach, never quite knows when it’s coming – the kind of thing his team did during the first 15 minutes of a 45-34 victory on Saturday against N.C. State at Carter-Finley Stadium. But by now he’s not all that much surprised by it when it happens.
“I had a great feeling before the game because of how they practiced on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,” Fedora said after UNC’s 35-7 first-quarter lead propelled the Tar Heels to their 11th consecutive victory “And it really is amazing when you sit out there and I come in off the field and the coaches were in the locker room and I was like, man, that was just like Tuesday six weeks ago.