Through the Looking Glass and What Seedy K Found There
Highway 19 slips into southwest North Carolina at Belleview, creeps its way northwesterly through Burnsville, Mars Hill, Asheville up to Cane River, where it splits into 19E and 19W, both of which meander off into Tennessee. Unfortunately, some of the poesy is lost because it doesn’t jackknife through the heart of Tobacco Road, the corridor between Chapel Hill and Durham. Which are the homes of a couple of iconic college hoops franchises.
Both of which in The Year of Our Lord 2026 suffered eerily similar ignominious defeats in the NCAA tournament. Blowing 19 point leads. You can’t make this stuff up.
Haters amongst ya, unite. Can’t get much better than this. The Tar Heels laid down against Virginia Commonwealth in the opening round, after having such a hefty advantage.
Which result turned member of the family Hubert Davis into a pariah, a currently unemployed one at that. Then a week later, the Blue Devils, a year after choking up a 15 point lead late in the Dance to Houston last campaign, hurled a 19 point giveaway to Connecticut in the Elite Eight. Which would be a record, but for the twentyburger reverse Pittsnoggle by the University of Louisville Cardinals in ’05.
Isn’t there some looking-for-succor, disgruntled NC State fan in the Old North State highway department who can change road designations? Highway 19 gotta be rerouted through the home burgs of Duke and UNC. Maybe next season, the Blue Devils and Tar Heels should wear gris-gris bags around their necks to avoid voodoo pins of meltdown defeats.
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