CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — This is more what Hubert Davis imagined 50 weeks ago, a North Carolina team living up to the program’s traditional standards — “You’re not really remembered at UNC for a Sweet 16,” Armando Bacot pointed out Tuesday — and doing it with togetherness and unity.
It didn’t happen right away, but everything he once envisioned is coming to fruition, not necessarily the continuation of an old regime but the realization of a new one.
North Carolina has won 14 of its past 17 games, including a history-defying win at Duke that earned its own chapter in rivalry lore, survived one of the most chaotic NCAA Tournament games in recent memory in the overtime win over top-seeded Baylor and heads to Philadelphia to face another of the bluest of bloods in UCLA.
