St. Louis is a great town.  Reminds me of hometown of Cleveland in size and atmosphere.  Except St. Louis integrates its work and residential areas so nicely and has kept its old buildings in lovely shape.  Cleveland has gaps of physical/space waste blot and the communities are too separated.

Not that impressed with NC's big men.  I saw Derrick Williams last year at the tourney that we played in Vegas.  It took mere minutes to see his NBA star talent.  NC's guys will have footnote NBA careers, I think.  Zeller is among those who think Zeller is a really good player who deserves calls just because of who he plays for.

I'd like to see a replay, but it seemed as if NC got the calls because they're NC.  8 free throws vs 24?

We keep coming.

Guts and confidence.  8 of OUr guys play double digit minutes.  Groce rotates for freshness and situations.  We shoot 23% in the first half but do the other right things so that we're only down 7 at half.  We start the 2nd with a 3-ball, NC then  hits 5 or 6 points in a row then to negate that nice start...but we keep coming.

Fearless.  I'm beginning to think that I know who our best NBA prospect is.  We turned it over a few times on what should have been easy passes around the perimeter.

We keep coming.  Perhaps NC's other slight edge comes out at the end--more experience in high profile, top competition games.  A bit more rebounding, a bit more individual offensive skill development, and more experience in tough, high competition games are next season.