Off the cuff: Against Clemson, North Carolina fans must have felt they'd seen this picture before. The Tar Heels were turning the ball over and the opponent was hitting threes to get out to a big lead. Carolina turned it over four times by the time the first TV timeout came around and trailed 14-3. The Tar Heels trailed by 10 at the half but clamped down a bit in the second half to get the game close down the wire. Barnes, who scored 40, hit his sixth triple with 1:22 left to bring the Heels with a bucket at 73-71. Then Zeller scored to send the game into overtime. Barnes tallied 14 points in the overtime period. "In the second half we got more aggressive, the defense was better and Harrison made a bunch of shots," said UNC coach Roy Williams. "We've got to be more aggressive ourselves and not let the other team be the aggressor." It's been fun for fans of basketball to see the comebacks the last two days but you have to figure that the Heels won't be able to do that again in the finals of the ACC tournament or in the NCAA tournament. |
|