Anytime you get up by 29 points, you shouldn’t end up winning by only 15 as the Tar Heels did in a 97-82 victory over Appalachian State. If the game had ended at 75-46, Tar Heels fans may have been happier. But it’s still early in the season and Carolina will learn from it.

Plus, exam week does take something out of you. Eleven players had tests the day before the game.

Tyler Zeller’s 31-point effort can’t just be attributed to playing a smaller team because Appalachian has a couple of guys over 6-foot-10. He just had a good night. Even he laughed at a lucky shot that he put up that bounced around and went in.

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