How Did the Tar Heels Finally Flip the Script in Beating UCLA?

Posted Dec 24, 2024
There was no letting UCLA get out of Madison Square Garden with a win. And there was no way that North Carolina was going to blow another late-game sequence sending it to the loser’s circle for the fourth time in as many similar opportunities. That will and desire, the Tar Heels say, is why they applied foot-to-throat against the No. 18 Bruins. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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