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Message: [QUOTE="General20, post: 1721799, member: 724"] The two teams playing the best defense in the tournament so far have been Syracuse and Nova. The two best teams have been North Carolina and Kansas. Before running into Nova, Kansas was blowing teams out. UNC has had a 14 point win against Notre Dame, a 15 point win against Indiana, and a 19 point win against Providence. All three of the teams North Carolina beat are good teams, but none of them play any defense at all, and none of them match up particularly well with North Carolina. So far its been easy for North Carolina, as it was easy for Kansas. When Kansas went up against Nova's defense they struggled, and I think not having to deal with adversity at all this season hurt them. They ended up putting together a really poor offensive performance in that game, and losing. Could the same happen to North Carolina? For all the talk about how lucky North Carolina is to play a 10 seed, I don't really see it that way. I think North Carolina would have been a lot better off against Virginia or Gonzaga. I think our defense can cause them some trouble just like Nova's D did to Kansas, and I wonder how well North Carolina will be able to respond. Now, make no mistake, North Carolina has some advantages that Kansas did not. Carolina is going to be able to bully us down low a little bit, and they should out rebound us. I do think Syracuse is going to have to score more efficiently against North Carolina than they have yet in the tournament if they want to come away with this win, but I will say this, there is no way that the favorite going into the final four, a team that is putting up over 90 points a game in their last 3, and shooting close to 60% from the field, wants to run into Syracuse and the kind of D Syracuse is playing. I actually think this match up is a bad break for UNC. [/QUOTE]

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