Lessons Learned from the UNC basketball program's train wreck at Clemson

Three-point shooting

In the Clemson preview, I had given perimeter defense a special mention in the "Keys to Victory." North Carolina completely disregarded my prescient advice.

Clemson annihilated UNC from downtown in an aerial bombardment not seen since Dresden 1945. The Tigers hit 12/25 three-pointers for the game, and were an almost unconscious 8/12 in the first half--which included Jaeden Zackery's full court heave at the buzzer.

Clemson was so hot from the perimeter that they essentially won the game in the first half. UNC was actually shooting well enough (15/30) to be in the game, but with only two made threes, they were down 16, and it only got worse from there.

When Viktor Lakhin--who has only hit 15 three-pointers this season, shooting 36.6%--goes 4/5 from downtown, your goose is well and truly cooked. Lakhin and the Hunter brothers treated Carolina worse than Kendrick Lamar did to Drake at the Super Bowl halftime show.