What an upset...

The University of North Carolina Tar Heels went into East Lansing, Michigan, walked into the Breslin Center, and knocked off the #1 team in the country, at home.  As I sat there watching my team play terribly, I couldn't help but wonder how does this make any sense?  Michigan State is the number one team in assists per game, and were entering into that game averaging over 22 per game.  The Spartans finished the game with 12 total.  North Carolina is a team with a lot young potential yet is inexperienced.  The Tar Heels had lost to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Belmont.  According to ESPN, "The Spartans (7-1) lost to an unranked nonconference team at home for the first time in more than a decade."  Michigan State also beat a very good Kentucky team, and has the senior leadership of Adreian Payne, Keith Appling, and one of the best young players in the country, Gary Harris.  Usually a great shooting team MSU hit very few threes and was getting dominated inside.  But this is what you have go to love about College Basketball.  Even with all of the signs on paper pointing towards a Michigan State win, North Carolina pulled a sound 14 point victory over the Spartans.  "One of the more disappointing performances of my career here," Tom Izzo, the coach of Michigan State, said. "From the jump ball, they kind of took it to us.""You can't tell in college basketball what's going to happen," Roy Williams, the North Carolina coach said. "At one

point, we had three freshmen, a sophomore and a junior on the court."  Goes to show anything can happen in college basketball.  As I like to say, there's no transitive property in basketball! Never count a team out!

(Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Description Courtesy of ESPN: Brice Johnson #11 of the North Carolina Tar Heels reacts, as teammates look on, to beating the Michigan State Spartans 79-65 at the Jack T. Breslin Student Events Center on December 4, 2013 in East Lansing, Michigan.