The Bruins falter in the final 1:40, so North Carolina advances to the Elite Eight and gets its shot at the Saint Peter’s Express.
It really was surreal. Saint Peter’s,America’s Darlings, watching to determine whether it would be facing UCLA or North Carolina on Sunday for the East Regional championship. It would be Cinderella versus the NCAA’s version of old money, and I wouldn’t be too quick to discount the fit of that glass slipper.
No wonder that when asked about it Friday night in the interview room in Philadelphia, first-year North Carolina coach Hubert Davis harrumphed, “I’m a positive guy. These guys have won, what is it, nine out of the last 10, 15 out of the last 18, and we’re going to talk about a game in January?” “We knew back then we were as good as a team. We knew if we bought in and played at a high level we could get this far,” center Armando Bacot said.This was UCLA’s story last year, even accounting for the difference between an NCAA Tournament in a bubble in 2021 and a more normal tournament in ’22.
“We knew that was going to be the biggest problem,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said. “We didn’t get the job done on the defensive glass. They’ve got too much firepower to give them second shots, third shots at times.That came at the end of a late-game sequence when the Bruins left themselves open to a second-guess for not taking a quick foul.
Would a quick foul earlier have made a difference? We’ll never know. Tyger Campbell scored on a drive with 9.6 seconds left.UCLA fouled, Love made both free throws, Davis added two more free throws with three-tenths of a second left, and that was that.
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