CYCLONES RIP OUT CAROLINA’S HEART

Carolina's LAST game of the Year : UNC vs. Iowa State
 

Notes from the UNC-Iowa State game

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First Half Highlights :

Story of runs and cold spells :

Carolina ahead 14-7 early in game

Iowa State goes on 28-12 run to take a 9-point lead, 35-26.

UNC comes back on 11-5 run to cut lead to 3 at half, 40-37.

COLD SHOOTING :

Iowa State has been giving UNC the long shot, but they’ve not been hitting them.

Marcus Paige has 9 points and one 3-pointer at half and shot 37%.

Carolina shot 33% from 3-point arc (4-12), while Iowa State shot 47% on three’s.

PG DeAndre Kane, whose season avg. is 17 ppg, led ISU with 15 pts and 8 rebounds.

Leslie McDonald led UNC with 12 pts

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Second Half Highlights :

Tar Heels start out 4-1 to tie the game, 41-41, at  .  But then Iowa State went 7-0 to go ahead, 48-41.

J.P. Tokoto steal results in a dunk at 15:32, Iowa State up 48-45.

Leslie McDonald hits a “3” at 13:15 to tie the game at 52-52, he has 15 points and 3/7 on three pointers

Paige hits 3-pointer at 11:14 to put UNC up, 56-55.  Then Justin Hogue completes 3-point play at foul line to put Iowa State back up, 58-56.

McDonald steals, then Kennedy Meeks layup and another Paige 3-pointer finishes a 10-0 run by the Tar Heels for a six-point lead, 66-60 at 8-minute mark. 

Marcus Paige steals at the 6:30 mark and takes it for a layup and a 70-62 UNC lead.

Meeks & McAdoo have been dominating the boards, getting offensive boards and follow lay-ups.

UNC seemed poised and ready to put the game away with three different 8-point leads, the last one at 76-68 on a Meeks layup.

Carolina stole the ball and had an opportunity to raise the lead to eleven at the 4:00 mark, but Paige missed a 3-point shot.  Instead, Long hit a 3-pointer for ISU to cut the lead to five. 

But two Iowa State 3-point shots draw the score to two, at the 3:00 mark, then a layup ties the game at 76 with 2:00 to go.  ISU on an 8-0 run.

McDonald clutch 3-pointer at 1:30, Tar Heels up 3, 79-76.  Trade layups, then Long hits a 3-pointer to tie the game at 81, with less than a minute (50.9).

Steal and long pass for layup puts ISU up, 83-81, with 28 seconds left in the game.

McAdoo calmly hits two free throws at 15.7 seconds to tie game.

Driving layup with less than three seconds by Kane puts Iowa State ahead, 85-83.

A Tar Heels timeout was called late, and the referees called the game over.   Iowa State 85, UNC 83.

IT'S ALL OVER FOLKS!   THERE GOES OUR SEASON!

 Actually, it wasn't a BAD season.. just a BAD ending..