Slowdown beatdown: Tar Heels step out of fast lane, still pound Virginia

Posted Feb 19, 2017
Keeping track of the Smith Center scoreboards became a strange proposition for UNC guard Joel Berry on Saturday. As the 10th-ranked Tar Heels pounded away during a 65-41 pulverizing of No. 14 Virginia, an ACC basketball beatdown mostly performed at the Cavaliers’ preferred deliberate tempo, Berry’s peeks overhead revealed unfamiliarity attached to the numbers. (Burlington Times News)

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