North Carolina and Alabama are supposed to be two of the better teams in the country this year in men’s college basketball. Four overtime games are supposed to be thrilling. Neither of those things felt like they were true on Sunday night when the Tar Heels and the Crimson Tide played an error-filled four OT game at the Phil Knight Invitational, better known as the PK 85.
Alabama beat UNC, 103-101, after four overtimes to give the Tide their first win over the top ranked team in the polls since 2004. It was the second straight loss for North Carolina, who were also defeated by unranked Iowa State in this same tournament on Friday. While it wouldn’t really be a surprise to see these two teams matchup in the second or even third weekend of the NCAA tournament come March, the level of play in clutch situations was lacking from both sides before Alabama mercifully took home the win.
Alabama took the lead in the final minute of overtime No. 4 on a beautiful Spain pick-and-roll that led to point guard Jahvon Quinerly hitting big man Charles Bediako for a layup. A weird game got even weirder after that. UNC appeared to take the lead on this floater by Caleb Love, but the refs reviewed their goaltending call and said it was a clean block. Alabama got the ball back because the possession arrow was going their way.
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I've been watching Carolina basketball since 1982. I'm uncomfortable with this current iteration that takes the floor as the smaller team. We have never done that. And we have beaten all of the "modern" style teams. Watching the Kansas game last year it felt like THEY were Carolina and we were Villanova or someone like that. The highly volatile 3-point game works great for underdogs and teams that can have their results smoothed out over 7 games. But in the one-and-done tounaments of the NCAA, it's WAY more dangerous. There are just a limited number of giants that grow every year. EVERY mid-major can take the floor with a bunch of shooters. We are leveling the playing field and negating our recruiting advantage. I hope Hubert can ignore what he learned in the NBA and coach to win NCAA games.
Bill Walton makes me lose brain cells
Everybody who truly watches UNC basketball knows we always struggle early and don’t pick it up until around conference play and from then on we’re a top team
UNC STILL GOING BACK TO THE SHIP , AND WILL WIN , CANT STAND WHEN WE BE RANKED THIS HIGH ANYWAY EVERYBODY KNOW WE STRUGGLE EARLY ALL THE TIME LOL..
Caleb shooting 36 shots is insane