Senior days get sadder as we get older.
That’s what I decided on Monday night, as a six-person Carolina senior class that includes Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson played their last game in the Smith Center.
Really, that’s it. They’re done. Paige is never running out of that tunnel wearing a Carolina jersey again. Ever.
That doesn’t seem possible. Over the last four years, they’ve played 65 games in the building. Sometimes they’ve been exhilarating, sometimes they’ve been heart-breaking, and sometimes they’ve simply been forgettable. But it’s always seemed that they would just keep going on indefinitely, that if this one didn’t work out, there would be another one in a few days.