Dayton, Oh – The College Basketball World heard on Tuesday evening from North Carolina – loud, unmistakable, painful for the poor Aztecs in San Diego.
What does Take that, unbelievers, Look like in Carolina Blue? It looks like an end result of 95-68 and the shower of the best percentage defense of the nation’s field gate with 14 three-to-one. It looks like you are carrying out a respected and experienced opponent. . . 40 at one point.
“Some of us wanted to wrongly prove the doubters,” said Wachmann Seth Trimble afterwards. “But we only concentrated on us; we focused on proving ourselves properly.”
But let’s go back earlier. It is almost 9 p.m. on Tuesday at the first four.
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According to the fans of West Virginia, the bad guys come here. According to Indiana fans, the evil come here. This is where the undeserved comes, so say the experts who don’t like it when your bracket is wrong.
Here are the Tar Heels, No. 11 seeds, the lowest that they have ever been. I wonder if you can hear the grumbling from coast to coast while taking the ground against the state of San Diego?
“I think we all have the hatred, the disagreement, all of this felt of all outside the Carolina family and the fan base,” Trimble said the night before. “We just run with it. We definitely have the feeling that we have something to prove.”
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They were here after winning eight of their last 10, but that didn’t matter to many people. Seven of their 13 defeats for the season were number 1 or No. 2 in the NCAA tournament. The only No. 1 seed that they didn’t play is Houston, but the skeptics didn’t want to hear it.
This loose 1-12 record against Quad One opponent was the rally scream for the anti-star-heal recording that is terrible. If someone accepts the quad system as the basis for an argument, they must also accept the net ranking, including this quad calculation. North Carolina was 15 places higher than West Virginia and 18 higher than Indiana.
What are your thoughts before the game, coach Hubert Davis?
“I have no thoughts and I am not on social media. In terms of these comments, this would be negligent for my part to comment on something that I never read or never heard. I didn’t hear the Bracketology after our name was selected on CBS.
Davis told his team that he should ignore the distractions and focus on “what real”. He gave them a Bible verse, sayings 4:25. Let your eyes look forward; Fix your gaze straight ahead.
So it is the moment of truth on Tuesday evening in the arena of the University of Dayton. When North Carolina wins and looks good, the question of whether the Tar Heels belong. But if you look bad when you fight when you lose. . .
Two hours later, North Carolina used the Aztecs on the wrong night against the false opponent on the wrong night. The 61 percent shootout of the Tar Heels in the first half led to an astonishing lead of 47-23 half. Gone, the state of San Diego defeated Houston, allowed only 37.8 percent all year round and had an opponent reached 80, and that was Gonzaga four months ago. But North Carolina had made nine three -point attempts, made seven, shot 12 free throws and not missed any. Had almost scored at will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wighoyitok
The rush lasted in the second half. The subdued Aztecs were so frustrated that they recorded a deliberate foul and tried to stop a quick break. The starter from North Carolina could finally be taken to rest for future tasks at an early stage. This includes RJ Davis with his 26 points and 6-against-6 shooting behind the arch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tzpfadvwo
It is after the game and the Tar Heels are asked to explain what has just happened.
RJ Davis sits on a chair and describes his epic performance. He only had two threesome than the entire San Diego State team in 21 fewer shots.
“It feels like they have a dream and everything will come true,” he says. “I was fun out there, but at the same time I told myself that this was my last go-caround. This was my last time on the biggest stage, so I just wanted to go out with a bang.”
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No, he says, the excitement for her selection did not affect her.
“For me, noise is always near me. It is like this in North Carolina. It has been like this for five years. I think we did a good job so as not to really allow it to get into the changing room and only avoid all of these distractions, and we have not listened to it.
And no, the team did not allow their heads to be turned from the outside via its offer.
“In order to play at this level, this reference always uses (coach Davis), horses have blind people who go into races, and that should avoid a distraction that does not allow them to be their best in the race. I think this reference fits the team well.”
And yes, there were a few chaotic days
“It is a whirlwind of emotions, especially before the selection show. But I think we are all grateful for the opportunity.”
And no, the controversy did not put any additional fire in your game.
“One thing about this team, one thing about me, we don’t need any additional motivation to go there and play basketball. We just like to go out and prove ourselves right and all prove that it is wrong. It was more about exploiting this moment.”
But it certainly looked like a little more. To trimble.
“We know that we deserve to be here. We don’t want to send a message to someone. We just want to compete as a team and be the team that we know that we are able. I think we did that tonight.
“We are the University of North Carolina, so we get noise every day, we get noise after every single game. We are more than used to it. We take on this bad guy in which we are, we know outside the Carolina family that we really have no support and we agree.”
Hubert Davis says that he did not make the distant thunder out of the storm for the selection on Sunday with his players.
“My communication with you is always to concentrate on us. It is not the sound of outside comments and critics. We concentrate on our preparation, our practice and our game. I send this message consistently in different ways, because this is the only one that we have about control. So why time to do something else?”
Let your eyes look forward; Fix your gaze straight ahead.
Next Ole Miss in Milwaukee on Friday. No sound about North Carolina that belongs there.
The Tar Heels have changed the story. Loud, unmistakable.
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