Marquette beats UNC for first time since 1977

First-year forward Dawson Garcia shoots a free throw during Marquette’s win against North Carolina Wednesday night (Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics.)For the first time since Feb. 20, 2014, Steve Wojciechowski was sitting on the bench at the Dean E. Smith Center. This time though, he was not associate head coach of Duke or even suiting up for the Blue Devils. Instead, he was leading his own program to an 83-70 victory over the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tar Heels Wednesday night.

“I know it’s a great storyline because of my history with North Carolina and Duke, but I didn’t try to talk about that much because this game is about our program and our team and Marquette,”…