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Carolina overcame a flurry of turnovers and some hot three-point shooting by Syracuse to beat the Orange 68-58 Thursday night in the JMA Wireless Dome. It keeps the Tar Heels a perfect 8-0 in true road games, the team’s best such record since the 2005-06 season. UNC never trailed, leading 15-12 after the first quarter and 35-25 at halftime. That lead grew to as large as 15 points early in the third quarter, but the Orange made six threes in the period to whittle the deficit down to as little as five points at 48-43. Syracuse shot 6-8 on threes in the third quarter and 9-16 for the game. That surge would be as close as the Orange would get, though, as UNC pushed its lead back out to 10 points by the beginning of the fourth quarter and maintained it until the final buzzer. The effort came even as the Tar Heels turned the ball over 10 times in the fourth quarter alone against Syracuse’s pressure defense; the 20 total turnovers are UNC’s most in a single game since committing 26 against ...

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