CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — After the historical win Saturday against the Duke Blue Devils, UNC students are hyped up and ready for the championship game Monday night.
It was a beautiful day outside Monday and an even more beautiful day to be a Tar Heel. Students on campus said, no matter what the outcome of the championship game is, they already feel more like a Tar Heel than they have the past few years.
Sophomore Sinclair Kirk along with many others on UNC's campus Monday said they can feel a change in the air.
"I feel like with our basketball team's recent performance, there has been a fire underneath the feet of every student at UNC,” Kirk explained.
Students said the atmosphere has been phenomenal.
Sophomore Arianna Darden said,“ I feel like a winner. I feel like most of us are just walking around we are all beaming, we are smiling everyone is so energetic. A lot of the same energy that we had last Saturday night I think everyone is just ready sitting with anticipation ready for tonight.”
UNC professor and alum, Jules Dixon said the Carolina blue blood runs deep.
“We are so proud of this coach and everything that he’s done with an amazing team of players and we have always believed and so the spirit today is just of hope and we got this and we love you,” Dixon said.
Senior, Anton Down-Jenkins said there has been so much love for the basketball team as well as the school itself.
"Having such a strong school spirit not only makes it so much more enjoyable to be here but it also just teaches you how great the school is and how much it really sets you up for life,” Down-Jenkins said.
Sophomore, Russell Herrington, said that since the win Saturday, spirits are up on campus.
"It was so unreal that it happened so it's still setting in almost that everyone is, this historical thing happened and we were a part of it and we got to have this when we didn't think that we would have this semester or even last year," Herrington said.
A historic win that students like junior Kemonte Jones will remember his entire life.
"It means a lot because for people in my family who have not been able to experience going to college and experience the things I have experienced, posting on Facebook people are saying enjoy college experience people are happy for me so bleeding Carolina blue some things that I've always wanted to do ever since I was younger so this is like a dream come true for me," Jones said.