should sound tired.It’s not about the North Carolina big man’s heavy minutes or physical play at the heart of things for the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament’s West Region. Instead, it’s the changes that have taken place in a five-year college career that is down to at most five games.
Yet Bacot, as the Tar Heels head into a March Madness meeting Saturday with Michigan State, has remained a constant amid those seismic forces reshaping everything around him.
I’ve been through three different eras of college basketball,” Bacot said Friday, adding: “It’s been a roller-coaster my whole college career.”
Indeed. The 24-year-old has seen some things.In the final minute of the first half of a relatively sleepy ACC quarterfinal Thursday, Armando Bacot forced his 6-foot-10, 240-pound frame into the lane at Capital One Arena. How many times has the legion of North Carolina men’s basketball fans seen this? Here was Bacot, perfectly timing an errant shot, corralling the rebound. Here was Bacot, getting a second offensive rebound on a single possession. Here was Bacot, going back up, extending Carolina’s lead over Florida State.
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