Well it's almost my favorite time of the year MARCH MADNESS! so lets do what I love and recap the season, well the games I got to watch anyways, being here in Virginia not all the games come on tv add that with being on duty every 4 days puts me on watch and unable to watch the games a lot sadly. I wanna start by saying I think Carolina is the best basketball team there is. The tar heels are currently ranked #7 in the nation 22-4 season, 9-2 ACC, with 5 games left in the regular season.
Lets go back:
15 Nov: vs MSU W67-55 - great start to the season
Carolina participates in the Los Vegas inviational playing MVSU, TNSU, SCGC, and lost in the finals to UNLV 90-80, something Carolina was not prepared for, you haven't heard anything out of the rebels and then here they come out of no where with a 6-0 record and a fire Carolina wasn't ready for.
30 Nov- Carolina wins to Wisconsin 60-57
03 Dec- a big upset for the Tar heels, there was 16 seconds left in the game and Barnes has the ball, he wants to play it smart hold on the the ball and make the basket near the end that way Kentucky cant get the ball back and score well he let the clock go a little to long and did leave time in case there was a needed rebound, he went up for the basket and Kentucky knocked it away to beat the heels 73-72.
For the next month Carolina went on to win every game they played, which is good for there record but they played teams such as Appalachian and Long Beach State and a few others that where really easy for the heels and there bench guys got a lot of well needed playing time. But because these teams where so easy the Tar heels had no need for an upscale defense, don't get me wrong they had a good enough defense for the teams they played but it didn't prepare them for what happened next...
14 Jan- A few games in the conference and Florida St. comes out of know where and reminds Carolina of what its like to be on the losing end, I didn't get to watch this game cause I was on duty but I do know Carolina lost 90-57, and it seemed Carolina took that beating and learned from it until last Wednesday.
08 Feb- Duke. Carolina and duke have the biggest rivalry in college basketball (if you look at the states Carolina is better than Duke in every catagory), but with the help of there new freshman, son to the Boston Celtics head coach, Austin Rivers. Carolina was up by 10 with 2 min left and something happened, i don't know what, but Carolina proceded to only score 2 point in that time and lose to duke 85-84, as Rivers made a successful buzzer 3 pointer while Zeller, who was supposed to be guarding him, stood there with his hands down, very disappointing.
The Tar heels have since won there last two games again UVA and Miami lets just hope they can finish out the season on a good note and when they go against Duke again in the last regular season game March 3rd, Carolina will be ready to bring home the big W.
