All tied up atop ACC after Tar Heels beat Maryland

Posted Feb 28, 2011
The No. 19 Tar Heels wake up this morning tied for first place in the ACC with a week left until the end of the regular season. Sunday night, the Tar Heels looked the part of league title contenders, dispatching visiting Maryland 87-76. The victory had the feel of a focused effort from a team that knows it’s within reach of something big. “We’ve been saying there’s some hardware on the line, we need to start playing like it,” John Henson said. (Burlington Times News)

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