It’s nice to know that Georgia Tech isn’t the only team in the nation to get their asses handed to them by UNC. The Tar Heels smacked Arizona Saturday night, 92-64, ending the Wildcats’ 29 game winning streak at home. It was the worst loss at Arizona since Lute Olson has been coaching, which is a really, really long time. UNC was without second leading scorer and rebounder, Brandan Wright, but it didn’t prove to be much of a problem.

“I think it is a big statement about how deep our team is, that we have guys on the bench who can start and we can still win a game like this,” said forward Deon Thompson, who replaced Wright and scored 14 points.

I think the bigger statement is how poorly Arizona played. They shot 33% from the field, and went 1-22 from beyond the arch, which, if you don’t have a calculator handy, is 4%. Most games that you chuck up 22 three-pointers, it’s a bad sign, anyway. But when you make only one of them, it’s especially telling.

“I just told the guys, ‘This is a nightmare. Forget it,” Olson said. “We’re not even going to look at the tapes.”

That, my friends, is probably the best decision ol’ Lute’s had in his last 24 years of coaching.

Sorry. Happen to hold a vendetta against the guy. Every year — every year! — he completely messes up my Final Four picks, because I get faith in a guy like Jason Terry or Salim Stoudamire, and ride this team all the way to my bracket’s destruction. And it screws me, without fail, every March.