Blue Tinted Point of View: Big Win Over UNC!!!!!!!!!!

If you had told me before the season started we would beat UNC by 30+ I would have smacked your face and called you a liar. This team bore no resemblance to the squad that won it all just a year ago. I know Ole Cryin' Roy has probably built up a lot of goodwill with his success the past few years, but talk about resting on your laurels.... Wait... Wrong UNC. We were playing UNC Asheville. My bad.

It was easy to get the two mixed up. This one had that big game feel you can only get from a game against a top flight opponent like UNC... Asheville.

Here are a couple of things that I liked about this game tonight:

Outside shooting. One of our biggest question marks coming into the year hasn't really been that big of a problem so far. Darius Miller, Darnell Dodson, Eric Bledsoe, and even Pat Patterson have shown an ability to make open jump shots. Dodson seems like the only guy that might be able to get unconscionably hot from outside, but the team as a whole can keep defenses honest.

Patience. We only had 8 turnovers, and we just seemed like we were a lot more calm out there. Good to see our guys can raise their games in the circus-like-atmosphere accompanying a big game like this one.

We killed them rebounding, as we should have. They didn't seem to get to nearly as many loose balls as some of our other out-manned opponents have this year either. Just seems like the team is maturing a little bit with each game. That is really all we could hope for with a team as inexperienced as this one.

Another thing I love about this team is Cousins ability to stuff the stat sheet. He can score in bunches, and he misses enough easy shots to pad his rebounding stats going after his misses. He is averaging over 15 points game only getting 20 minutes a game. It is unclear if he could actually do more with more minutes, as he has had trouble putting together a complete effort to this point.