{"id":6730,"date":"2014-02-21T00:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2014-02-27T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:03:04","slug":"tar-heels-keep-composure-to-upset-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6730","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels keep composure to upset Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xzI7OJjHX_A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6732\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesliemcdonald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesliemcdonald-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie McDonald.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesliemcdonald-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesliemcdonald-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesliemcdonald-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesliemcdonald.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie McDonald.<\/figcaption><\/figure>North Carolina had committed unforced turnovers and missed free throws badly but in the last five minutes the Tar Heels played almost flawlessly, outscoring Duke 18-6 to beat their chief rival 74-66.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a great, great rivalry,&#8221; UNC coach Roy Williams said at game&#8217;s end. &#8220;I loved our guy&#8217;s composure down the stretch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a ragged first half, North Carolina trailed by seven and then by 11 in the second half before chipping away at the Blue Devil lead.<\/p>\n<p>Down 60-56 with less than five minutes to go, Leslie McDonald, who twice had missed the front end of one-and-one situations, went to the foul line and calmly drained two free throws to start the run.<\/p>\n<p>James Michael McAdoo scored inside with 4:22 left to tie it at 60-60 and McDonald sank a 15-footer with 3:50 to go that gave Carolina its first lead since midway through the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Paige banged in a step-back jumper and followed it with a drive-by layup to keep the Heels out front at 66-62 with 1:28 left.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels, who had missed seven free throws in the first half, hit six in a row down the stretch &#8211; four by freshman Nate Britt and two by Paige &#8211; as they won going away.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb3media.com\/heelprints\"><br \/>\n<strong>Please click here for more on the game<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/collegebasketball\/gametracker\/boxscore\/NCAAB_20140220_DUKE@UNC\" target=\"_blank\">Boxscore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina had committed unforced turnovers and missed free throws badly but in the last five minutes the Tar Heels played almost flawlessly, outscoring Duke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}