No. 2 Tar Heels know things about to get tougher in ACC

Posted Jan 29, 2016
UNC coach Roy Williams has long promised his teams that things would get tougher as they entered the conference schedule. It's taken a month for his second-ranked Tar Heels to reach that point in their ACC slate, thanks to a quirk in the schedule that loaded up the second half of the schedule with the teams picked to finish in the top third of the conference. (Associated Press)

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