You couldn’t create a better advertisement for the 2024–25 men’s college basketball season than the two-plus hours of basketball played at Allen Fieldhouse on Friday night.
Two blueblood programs, the North Carolina Tar Heels and Kansas Jayhawks, playing in one of the sport’s iconic venues with students on campus. Both offenses put on shows: Kansas shredding Carolina on the interior in the first half; North Carolina’s guards going to work in the second. A compelling finish, with the Heels rallying from 20 points down in the first half to take the lead late, just for the Jayhawks to punch back and come away with a 92–89 victory. In a game that felt for a while like whoever had the ball last would win it, North Carolina’s hopes of overtime were dashed when point guard Elliot Cadeau’s potential tying three rimmed out.
