re: The NC game was lost for one reason

I agree with you that that was the one glaring thing that I haven't seen us do much, and we did it against UNC and they made us pay for it, like a better team does.

I would also add that we have been poor at stopping dribble penetration the last 10 or so games at least, but I expected that weakness to be exposed if Lawson could go... and boy did he. Finally, I thought Temple disappeared on offense down the stretch of the season and in this game in particular.... and no one off the bench ever stepped up into a reliable role (although we pretty much knew what we'd get with Q.Thornton).

We lost to a better team... and I hate to lose with so many unforced errors, but C.J. stepped up big, Thornton and Taz did what was expected... even Bo came back and hit some shots...just not much else help.