North Carolina is a great basketball team when it cares, and on Thursday night it cared. N.C. State came in with a pretty record amassed against mediocre teams and for the first time in a long time the game felt like a rivalry.
But when the Tar Heels commit, they play tough and entertaining basketball. Their interior defense is exceptional, they get good shots and they have an array of players capable of making them. The lopsided score -- North Carolina by 19 -- had less to do with N.C. State's struggles than with North Carolina's bursts of brilliance.
I'm pulling for N.C. State. Basketball is better when somebody -- N.C. State, Wake Forest, Stephen Curry -- rises to challenge superpowers North Carolina and Duke.
N.C. State isn't there, isn't close. But at least the Wolfpack is entitled to believe. And how long has it been since that happened?
I did not go to Pitt, but have lived in The Burgh since '74 I went to Robert Morris College (it's a University now, woot, woot), and they did not even have a football team when I strated there. I think their team strated my 2nd year of college, but they played off-campus at a local high school (so NOT conducive to tailgating). I've worked for UPMC since 1998, so I guess I worked for Pitt when you were in school there!
Posted by: Rio | October 20, 2012 at 08:06 AM