Updated 11:08 p.m.
CHAPEL HILL — About eight minutes had gone by in what became North Carolina’s 78-55 victory against East Tennessee State on Saturday night when James Michael McAdoo, the Tar Heels’ sophomore forward, glanced at the scoreboard.
“I didn’t know what we were getting into,” McAdoo said later. “But as soon as I saw at the second media timeout when they only had four points, you could see where the game was going. So we just really tried to work on our defensive and offensive principles.”
That’s all the No. 20 Tar Heels (7-2) could do against the overmatched Buccaneers (2-5), who scored their fourth point of the game with 12:22 to go before halftime and didn’t score again for more than eight minutes. By then, UNC led 34-7, and it led 42-12 at halftime.
