SOUTH BEND, Ind.—For weeks, we’ve been waiting for Marcus Paige to revert to last year’s form. Saturday night, he did.
Unfortunately, the rest of the Tar Heels did also.
Paige put on a shooting exhibition at Notre Dame, drilling five three-pointers and generally looking like that same Paige to which you’ve gotten accustomed over the past four years. But he was the only Tar Heel who got into an offensive rhythm, and the defensive suffered repeated breakdowns on the way to losing a road lead and an 80-76 defeat.
The Fighting Irish came into the game as the most efficient offensive team in the country according to Ken Pomeroy’s metrics.