HOUSTON — The Final Four has come back around, seven years later, but there’s no marker on the floor in Houston to mark the spot where Kris Jenkins launched the shot that broke a million Tar Heel hearts, not that the NCAA has a habit of indulging in that kind of sentimentality.
It’s impossible to be here, though, without thinking about the drama of 2016, when Villanova beat North Carolina for the title on Jenkins’ buzzer-beater. And for UNC, anyway, that means thinking about just how close the Tar Heels came on an equally dramatic heave just before it. Jenkins’ shot will be replayed forever. Outside of Chapel Hill, anyway, Marcus Paige’s off-balance, double-clutch 3-pointer that preceded it has already been forgotten.
It might be the greatest shot no one remembers.
