{"id":7855,"date":"2014-12-13T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2014-12-13T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T20:27:44","slug":"physical-kentucky-team-plays-its-best-game-vs-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7855","title":{"rendered":"Physical Kentucky team plays its best game vs. UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roy Williams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>North Carolina has a 23-14 all-time record against Kentucky but it might not have mattered how well the Tar Heels played in this one as the No. 1 Wildcats played their best game of the year and ran by a scrappy but error-prone Tar Heel team 84-70 in Lexington.<\/p>\n

Kentucky was hot and played physical and aggressively on the defensive end. Some believe the Wildcats will go undefeated this season – at least in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Carolina took a lot of hits in this one – figuratively and literally – but kept coming back.<\/p>\n

Marcus Paige hit four threes in the second half to help. The Tar Heels actually outrebounded the Wildcats by seven and had an impressive 18 offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n

But Kentucky scored 24 points off Carolina’s 19 turnovers and scored 13 more points from the foul line.<\/p>\n

UNC coach Roy Williams shouldn’t be happy with a loss; however, in light of how hard the Tar Heels played, I was surprised he was angry enough to cuss. We usually just hear the “dad gums” and such from him.<\/p>\n

When asked to remember something he had said before the game about keys to the game, he said, “I’m too ticked off to think about any bullsh*t like that.”<\/p>\n

Maybe he was just joking around.<\/p>\n

For more on the game itself, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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