Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said the game with the North Carolina Tar Heels was as hard fought a game as he’s ever been involved in as a coach. Carolina coach Roy Williams didn’t say that but he showed it by yanking off his coat in the second half and often yelling and stomping out slightly onto the court.

“I looked like an idiot on TV I guess,” he said. But he wants his team to play with more emotion and urgency. He has said that his team is sometimes too cool. The coolest of the cool is Harrison Barnes but it’s just his nature and as long as he can put down 20, a third of Carolina’s points, he can stay cool I suppose.

Two of the biggest differences in this game and the loss to UNLV were the superior free throw shooting by the Heels and the ability to deny open three pointers. Carolina shot just 60 percent from the free throw line against UNLV but shot 80 percent against the Badgers. UNLV hit 13 threes (40 percent) while Wisconsin hit eight threes (28.6 percent).

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