Carolina Falls To Wake Forrest
0-2 In the ACC

1. Argh.

2. Congrats to Wake.

3. No shame in losing to the #4 team in the country...but UNC hasn't been looking good. They shot something like 25% in the second half. Wake's defense looked pretty good, but lots of the bad shooting wasn't due to the defense. Lots of quick shots, few extra passes. My hunch, FWIW--which isn't much--is that it's a combination of (a) non-stellar defense and (b) a shaky half-court offense. I think everybody took a look at the way Carolina was running teams like MSU and Notre Dame into the ground, and realized that it's ridiculous to try to run with 'em. Add to that o.k. but not great defense, which limits opportunities for the break, and we end up winning or losing with our half-court game. Which just hasn't seemed that good most of the time.

Hard to believe that we're 0-2 in the ACC, tied in the basement with Georgia Tech. Not the way we were hoping things were going to go. Now the same folks who were saying "they will go undefeated!" two weeks ago are saying things like "They have no chance of winning it all!" Both of those claims are, of course, ridiculous. Though I'd bet way less money on us winning it all now than I would have two weeks ago...