100-67. Tar Heel Basketball gets biscuits.
One of the things that is uniquely fun about really following a particular college program is learning and appreciating the local folklore and the lingo that comes with it.
Bojangles is a fried chicken restaurant chain that is known along the mid-Atlantic coast for biscuits in the mornings. They have long advertised on the media associated with Tar Heel Basketball, and they have a standing offer of discounts (they used to be free) on their biscuits the morning after a Tar Heel game in which they score more than 99 points. The two zeroes in the number one-hundred are evocative of a couple of southern biscuits.
So, “getting biscuits” means that the Tar Heels put on an offensive display, and they certainly did that tonight at the basketball clinic they conducted for The Citadel at the Dean Center. I dunno if the offer is good for a Tar Heel loss in which they score a hundred or more, that doesn’t happen much.
Coach Davis played the bench. Something like fourteen players had minutes, thirteen of them scored, twelve got rebounds, six got blocks, and Jones Angel, the voice of the Tar Heels claims he saw a partridge in a pear tree at the Dean Dome.
It was fun to watch. The starters were genuinely happy to see the bench play, and succeed. Coach Davis clearly got the “Play Together” part of Tar Heel basketball through their thick heads. Something like 75% of the made field goals came on assists.
Stles looked good. Jalen Washington looked good. Tyler Nickel was dead-eye. Puff played starter-level defense. Seth Trimble established himself as someone who can contribute. There’s a lot of good news for a team that was looking at a lot of bad news last week.
Enjoy your biscuits, but push back from the table.
It was The Citadel. While they had game, it was 26-23 at one point, they aren’t a recruiting draw for singular basketball talent. Don’t get me wrong, the Tar Heels are capable of dropping a game to The Citadel, but reading too much into this dominant, fun, up, performance is like reaching for that third biscuit.
You’ll feel better later if you don’t.
This weekend’s game at Madison Square Garden against Ohio State will be Coach Hubert Davis’ first tie darkening those doors since he played in the NBA. Cool.
Go Heels.