It was pretty much business as usual for the Zags, who demonstrated why they’re one of the nation’s top offenses and the only team in the country with six players averaging double figures. They shot 59% from the field. They had their usual widespread contributions, with five of the seven players that entered the game reaching double figures.
It was North Carolina head coach Roy Williams’ idea to play a home-and-home series with Gonzaga. He has a history of playing anybody anywhere, and this was one place his Tar Heels had never traveled.
Corey Kispert scored 26 points, Filip Petrusev added 20 and the No. 2 Gonzaga Bulldogs beat the North Carolina Tar Heels 94-81 on Wednesday night at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane.
By now, you’re probably so sick of the descriptive “blue bloods” that you might even skip whatever moral tug-of-war embroils Tom Selleck on the tube come Friday night – or at least avoid the title sequence.