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1. Well, that's the rare very close 75-70 win over a tough Syracuse team that you don't even remember twenty minutes later, because Carolina had the best senior day ceremony the program has had in the Roy Williams era. The speeches from Joel James, Brice Johnson and Marcus Paige were absolutely perfect, and then Roy Williams took the microphone and finished off the crowd with a heartfelt salute to a class he called "maybe my favorite senior class ever" for the way they have battled through significant adversity over these four years. Paige broke down on multiple occasions, and Williams, whose emotional nature is well-known, also had tears in his eyes.