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It had the intensity of a Final Four showdown, the contentiousness of an off-camera get-together before "Joe Millionaire," the pace of the Daytona 500 and the head-scratching finale of a David Lynch flick.
The taunt was a mere peep at first, but by the time Chris Hobbs walked toward the tunnel leading to the Clemson locker room, it had crescendoed to a booming chant.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Even though the motivations were different, North Carolina and Virginia entered Saturday afternoon's matchup with similar game plans.
At some point before Wednesday night's game against Davidson, a certain memory from a season ago occupied the recesses of Melvin Scott's mind.
Even from the start, things were a bit off Wednesday night at the Smith Center.
It was supposed to be a quick weekend of work at the Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival, a triumphant return to New York for the North Carolina men's basketball team.
With its 5-0 start and Preseason NIT victory, the North Carolina men's basketball team looks entirely different from the squad that stumbled to 1-4 a year ago.
The Tar Heels were in trouble Sunday at Old Dominion.
As his young team started to make its slow crawl back into contention Wednesday night, North Carolina men's basketball coach Matt Doherty invoked the past to inspire the present.
On the first day of practice, former North Carolina men's basketball player Jason Capel returned to Chapel Hill to talk to the Tar Heels.
The Florida State coach thought about the question for a few seconds, looked down and tried to explain what wide receiver Anquan Boldin meant to his team.
The first 30 minutes went exactly as the most optimistic of fans had hoped they would.
The two seniors played in the Carolina Cancer Focus basketball tournament at Woollen Gym on April 13. The event raised money for the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center on UNC's campus.
As the crowd noise grew, the sophomore guard's grin broadened and his head began to bob up and down. And right there, with 12 minutes to go in the North Carolina men's basketball team's game against the EA Sports All-Stars, Scott began his own little victory dance, shimmying his shoulders and hips to a beat only he could hear.
But when its game against Maryland was finished, though, the ugly truth was drawn in the sand for the few who remained from the initial Homecoming crowd of 44,000: Maryland 59, North Carolina 7.
Just don't get State coach Chuck Amato started about the new expectations on his undefeated, yet fairly untested, team.
All that has happened to the North Carolina football team this year happened once more Saturday, as if the team tried to create a scene-by-scene reproduction of its prior performances from the first half of the 2002 season.
At his weekly press conference last Monday, the Arizona State coach tried to rationalize why his team was 4-1 while North Carolina was just 1-3 going into its game later in the week.
With North Carolina trailing 35-31 with less than three minutes to go, Durant couldn't afford to take a sack and watch precious time tick off the clock.
He's not the kind of guy that racks up nearly 200 yards receiving and scores four touchdowns in one game.
