Well I’m not really sure what there is to say after a 51-point loss on the road against one of your rivals, because for all the bad scenarios I’m able to envision leading up to a game like this, um, this has never been one of them.
NC State was buried very, very quickly by North Carolina—down 14-4 by the first television timeout—and not only didn’t respond, but didn’t seem to care to, either. It snowballed badly from there (it is winter, after all!), as the Pack shrank away from the challenge rather than stepping up to it.