NEW YORK — The play that allowed North Carolina to defeat No. 23 Ohio State 89-84 could become the catalyst that turns around the Tar Heels’ skittish season. Here’s the twist: It was a play UNC players had never run before. Never practiced before. Never seen before. Pete Nance’s fallaway 2-pointer as time expired to send UNC to overtime against the Buckeyes on Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden was an improv call in the huddle by Carolina assistant Jeff Lebo, who scribbled out a design on a whim after remembering watching another team find itself in a similar situation earlier this year. “Lebo said he saw it like on TV or something like that,” Tar Heels center Armando Bacot, who had a season-high 28 points, told CBS Sports. Down 79-77 with 1.2 seconds left, Lebo took the whiteboard from Tar Heels assistant Brad Frederick and…
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