It wasn't pretty, but Tar Heels survive to play another day in NCAA tourney

Posted Mar 19, 2017
Sometimes the most effective pep talks are the kind that don’t need to be spoken. The UNC basketball team experienced one of them Sunday as it struggled to avoid a second round NCAA tournament elimination at the hands of Arkansas. “When we came out of the three-minute time out, we just said ‘this can’t be it. This can’t be the way we lose,’” Theo Pinson said. (North State Journal)

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