Official Site of the Tar Heels · Nov 28, 2019
Lucas: An Early Turkey
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas--Repeat after me: This happens.
That doesn't make it any more enjoyable or any less frustrating, but it happens. How often do games like Thursday's 73-64 defeat (we all know, but will hopefully soon forget, that it wasn't as close as that score indicated) to Michigan happen? How about every single November for the last decade.
That's right. Every Carolina team since the 2009 national champions--a squad that had one of the most dominant NCAA Tournament performances of all time--has endured a game with at least some casual similarities to today's Battle 4 Atlantis loss. All of the following defeats were in November of the listed year: