It always has to end this way. In every season, there is reason to look forward to this game; in a bad season, a chance for redemption. In a good season, a chance to rub it in. In a great season, a twin opportunity to clinch an outright ACC Regular Season title and deny the same to the team from Durham. At the End of the Day, here at the end of the season, we will know whether that title resides solely in Chapel Hill or splits time between houses on Tobacco Road.
As pages keep Turning and falling away from an ever-dwindling calendar, we suddenly find ourselves in the midst of the final gameday of the regular season, the last day that is guaranteed for this year’s Tar Heel team.