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Carolina skips the NIT mercifully ending their disappointing season
Pat Welter takes a look at what went wrong with Carolina's 2022-23 season and where they go from here after skipping the NIT.
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Pat Welter takes a look at what went wrong with Carolina's 2022-23 season and where they go from here after skipping the NIT.
Franklin and at the other end with the exclamation point, Greensboro marked a disappointing end to a disappointing year for the tar heels, not the outcome that we wanted as a group. Um You know, it sucks to lose burdened by the expectations of 2020 two's Cinderella run to the national championship. Carolina never lived up to the hype. Really, the story of this year was just talking about last year. It felt like it was overdue long hangover Sunday UN C became the first preseason number one to be left out of the NCAA tournament since the field expanded to 64 team. in 1985. Our record is our record. Hubert Davis then released a statement saying the team was passing on the N I T saying quote now is the time to focus on moving ahead, preparing for next season and the opportunity to again compete for AC C and N C A championships. Roy Williams famously made the 2010 team play in the N I T This year's group was hardly thrilled at the prospect that tell us that's not something I want to do if this cop was out on playing at least one more game together. You have to wonder if they're just finished playing together entirely. Caleb Love Armando Bacot RJ Davis, all eligible to return. None considered first round draft picks at this point. And then you got to think about the young guys who spend most of the season on the bench. Do any of them start to transfer? Carolina could look completely different this fall and that might be exactly what the program needs. Lewis.