UNC Basketball: Tar Heels’ new NET ranking following big win at Duke
The UNC basketball team is off the bubble following a program-defining victory against the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium last night.
The North Carolina Tar Heels traveled to Durham on Saturday night to take on the No. 4 Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium in head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final home game.
The unranked 11-point underdog Tar Heels were never supposed to win the game and Coach K’s final home sendoff in front of roughly 100 former players and a raucous blue-clad crowd would be the warmest and most memorable sendoff in college basketball history.
Only, nobody told the Tar Heels that they weren’t supposed to win the game, and they came out and played their best basketball of the season en route to a 13-point victory over the projected No. 2 seed Blue Devils.
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The Tar Heels entered the game as an NCAA Tournament bubble team, needing to solidify their case to make it into postseason play. Well, they did just that, winning their second Quad 1 game of the season and essentially stamping their ticket to the big dance. In doing so, the Tar Heels moved up eight spots in the NET ranking overnight, going from No. 40 and possibly on the outside looking in, to No. 32 and sitting pretty.
Now, the Tar Heels, who finished the ACC regular season in a second-place tie which earned them a 3-seed in this week’s ACC Tournament, will await their next opponent in hopes of building onto their already NCAA Tournament-worthy resume.
But no matter what happens, the Tar Heels are in the tournament and nobody, not even CBS bracketologist Jerry Palm, can keep them out.
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