Eagles dictated flow of the game

Posted Jan 5, 2009
Nobody's perfect, which anybody with half a brain understands, but imperfections are sometimes harder to swallow. North Carolina gradually grasped the inescapable facts last night. Boston College refused to leave town without nailing down an 85-78 win that eliminated the giddy Tar Heel fantasy of an undefeated season. The witnesses included Lennie Rosenbluth, the All-America scorer on Carolina's unbeaten 1957 champions. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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