North Carolina drillmaster Roy Williams can’t appreciate what abroad could go amiss for the unranked and disturbing Tar Heels afterwards Virginia handed UNC its affliction home accident back 2003 on Sunday.
“How can you go any lower?” Williams asked afterwards the game, according to The Charlotte Observer. “Be honest: How can it be any worse than it is appropriate now?”
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AP Photo/Jim R. BoundsRoy Williams said he hoped North Carolina could comedy more good aegis than it did in Sunday’s accident to Virginia.
This is how far and how fast the arresting civic champions (13-8, 2-4 ACC) accept plummeted: In the amplitude of three weeks, they’ve collapsed out of the Top 25, sunk to abreast the basal of the appointment standings and absent four of their aftermost bristles — including three of their aftermost four at home.
Historically, the Heels accept bedeviled at home. Entering Sunday night, Virginia had won alone bristles times in 68 tries at Chapel Hill. But that was then, and this was Sunday: The Cavaliers reeled off an 18-0 run in the additional bisected and throttled UNC 75-60, abaft Sylven Landesberg’s 29 points.
Sammy Zeglinski added 19 points, including a brace of 3-pointers that gave Virginia, which led 35-32 at halftime, a 21-point advance with 14:20 remaining. North Carolina attempt 35.7 percent from the field, committed 17 turnovers and never led.
