The North Carolina Tar Heels beat Rhode Island in the NIT semifinals last night, in a forgettably sloppy game. The Heels shot an insulting 34.9% from the field (11.8% from deep 50% from the stripe) while Rhode Island 36.8%. How fucking miserable is that? Welcome to the NIT I guess. UNC has totally backed into championship. I'm actually 100% sure that they didn't want to win last night. I mean Will Graves tripped that guy on Rhode Island! The funniest part about it is that Roy even said it was a foul. I loved his quote about the NIT that he gave after the game. He said, "You know, I have a great appreciation of this tournament, I have a great appreciation of the tradition, the history of the NIT. If you win this tournament, you have to feel good about it." Maybe I'm reaching a little here, but it seems like he's saying that the NIT has a great HISTORY. He doesn't say anything about the modern NIT. Yeah, the NIT does have a great history, but that was back when the only way teams could make the NCAA tournament was by winning their conference championship. The NIT was full of teams that deserved to go to the Big Dance. Now it's just full of terrible teams getting invitations out of charity. Roy also says "you have to feel good about it." Yeah he may have meant it in a good way, but he could have also meant that you have to act like you feel good about it because you'd get shit on by the media if you said you didn't care about winning. Anyway, I'm expecting to see Roy and the boys wearing brown bags over their heads in front of the far from sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Go Heels.
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