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UNC Basketball: Five Bold Predictions for the Rest of the Season

By Bryson Gordon

Nov 23, 2016; Lahaina, Maui, HI, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels celebrate with the Wayne Duke Championship Trophy after defeating the Wisconsin Badgers in the Championship Game of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational at the Lahaina Civic Center. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 23, 2016; Lahaina, Maui, HI, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels celebrate with the Wayne Duke Championship Trophy after defeating the Wisconsin Badgers in the Championship Game of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational at the Lahaina Civic Center. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /
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Mar 12, 2016; Washington, DC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams celebrates with Tar Heels guard Joel Berry II (2) after their game against the Virginia Cavaliers in the championship game of the ACC conference tournament at Verizon Center. The Tar Heels won 61-57. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 12, 2016; Washington, DC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams celebrates with Tar Heels guard Joel Berry II (2) after their game against the Virginia Cavaliers in the championship game of the ACC conference tournament at Verizon Center. The Tar Heels won 61-57. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports /

Carolina wins the ACC regular season, and tournament again

Memories of last seasons magical run come to mind with this prediction. While this may not seem as bold, you have to go all the way back to 2007 and 2008 to see when the Heels did this twice in a row.

Of course winning the regular season would require either the number one prediction, or the number two prediction to happen.

But it is not out of the realm of possibility the Heels could do both.

We are watching one of the all-time great Roy Williams offenses this season, capable of scoring with anybody, as we saw in the Kentucky game. This team could hang 100 points on nearly any given night in the ACC.

Winning the ACC tournament would be the hard part. That would require winning four games in four days, against four great ACC opponents. We all have seen how vulnerable the top teams in the ACC are, but imagine that when teams are fighting for their postseason lives.

Roy Williams has won the ACC Tournament three times, back to back in 2007-2008, and of course last season. Maybe it is a good omen that he won it in back to back years the first time.

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