UNC Basketball: Double Double-Double

Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports I bet if Garrison Brooks and Armando Bacot decided to steal Ash Ketchum’s Pikachu, they could do it. The tandem of Tar Heel tall guys took control of Tuesday’s tussle with the talented team from Syracuse, tossing two digits in two columns of the total tally. The Orange had trouble with a couple of double-doubles as the frontcourt tore the Dean Dome down, leaving nothing but rubble.

Linguistic goofery aside, this was an impressive performance from the pair of Carolina bigs, as described in more detail in Matt’s great Player(s) of the Game post. Two discrete double-doubles in the same night doesn’t happen often. I don’t have the stats on that, it just feels rare.…