And boy have the Dukes passed the test with flying colors, as they blew the doors off the Tar Heels with a record-breaking first half that saw them score a school-record 53 points

What the AP story – or any other dispatch from any other reporter covering the game – didn’t contain was a comment from any UNC player. That’s because North Carolina refused to let the assembled media talk to players after this home loss.

North Carolina came into Saturday's matchup with James Madison with a 3-0 record. Yet how impressive that mark was with victories over Minnesota, Charlotte and North Carolina Central was questionable.