Tar Heels Will Themselves Past Arkansas

Posted Mar 20, 2017
Maybe Isaiah Hicks said it best when asked to describe what was going through North Carolina’s collective minds when the Tar Heels left the bench after an official timeout trailing Arkansas by 5 points with 3:43 left to play. “I was thinking ‘This can’t be our last game,’” Hicks said. “Me, Kennedy (Meeks) and Nate (Britt), this is not it, we’ve got to do something.” (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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