North Carolina made a decision to have a little fun at the expense of the Miami Hurricanes Saturday when quarterback Marquise Williams threw up the “U” and turned it down, way down.
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And so before his final home game he said he thought to himself: “This is what I dreamed of as a child”. Williams completed 11-of-16 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown while rushing for another 101 yards and three touchdowns. Switzer is one return short of tying the all-time record.
“Fun, and tiring”, Schoettmer said of the return.
“Pretty frustrating”, Paige said a couple of times. I should be good to go.
Despite being deemed as the top team in the nation, the Tar Heels will have to clean up a few flaws if they’re going to go all the way. He ran for first-half touchdowns of 10 and 14 yards, and from 3 yards in the third quarter. The ‘Heels explosive offense was led by quarterback Marquise Williams, who threw for 270 yards and two touchdowns.
Fedora, though, could have said something similar about his team as a whole.
Carolina’s defense held Miami to 2.7 yards per rush in meaningful action, the Heels’ best mark against an FBS school so far this season.
But with just two games left in the regular season, nothing seems to be working.
The Hurricanes arrived at Kenan Stadium with a chance, albeit slim, to still win the Coastal Division. The ACC championship. The Tar Heels would win the Coastal with one victory in their final two games, and the only way they won’t win it is if they lose their remaining two games and if Pitt wins its final two games.
When it ended, North Carolina’s best player sat in the team’s locker room, wearing the same suit he wore during the Tar Heels’ 91-67 victory against Temple on Friday night, his right hand in a bandage the way it has been for the past week and a half or so. “Everybody’s there to pick each other up… they’re doing the things that a team does”.
The split voting among the top teams means that many voters feel that there is no true number one team, although UNC did get a decent amount more than Maryland and Kentucky. With Miami already trailing 17-0 in the second quarter, Stacy Coley made a terrific catch for a 34-yard gain, only to draw an immediate 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct for taunting a UNC defender.
“They would have two [big] guys and they would rotate two more and kept rotating and they were 100 percent all the time so it was tough on us”, said 6-foot-8 Temple senior Jaylen Bond, who had a team-high eight rebounds but shot 1 for 8 while dealing with the trees inside. “Because that’s our goal”.
“Everything we asked them to do they did, and they did it well, ” Scott said of Miami’s preparation.
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Coaches have lectured and used film to try and drive their teaching points home, players whistled in games have been punished during workouts and referees have been regular visitors in Coral Gables in recent weeks, with the hope being conscientious practices will lead to cleaner games on Saturdays. Carolina would go on to finish 8-2-1 and play Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. He made shots inside and outside and helped the Tar Heels take command by scoring nine of their first 11 second-half points.
