UNC basketball's eye-popping loss at Cal can be summed up with one word

UNC basketball played nearly 8 ½ minutes of winning basketball at California. But the jogging, standing and staring in the first 31 ½ minutes of an 84-78 loss against the Golden Bears cost the 14th-ranked Tar Heels in their attempt to complete a comeback victory in Berkeley. Defensive distress and free-throw misfortune aside, UNC’s second straight loss and third in the last four ACC games can be summed up in one word: Effort. “It doesn't matter whether you're in California, you're at home, it doesn't matter where you are,” UNC coach Hubert Davis said in a postgame interview on the Tar Heels Sports radio network with play-by-play announcer Jones Angell. “You got an opportunity to compete and...