PHILADELPHIA–The University of North Carolina is the only team in the country that is capable of scoring 100 points or more on multiple occasions.

It doesn’t matter who the competition is, either.

Indiana coach Tom Crean made the mistake of thinking his Big Ten regular season champions could get into a track meet with top seeded the ACC Tar Heels.

The Hoosiers wound up with tire tracks on their backs.

Carolina rolled over the Big Ten regular season champions, 101-86, here Friday night in the NCAA East Region semi-finals at the Wells Fargo Center and Indiana didn’t know what hit them. It was late night entertainment that didn’t start until 10 p.m., but most viewers were in bed by halftime. Carolina shot 61 percent and made 7 of 8 three points in the first half to take a 52-41 lead, scoring at will inside with 6-9, 265 pound junior Kennedy Meeks, 6-9, 228-pound junior Brice Johnson and 6-8 forward Justin Jackson doing some serious damage. The Tar Heels built a 22 point lead from there.

“They were consistently making shots inside, outside, to start the game,” Indiana senior point guard Yogi Ferrell said. “Going up against a great like North Carolina, you can;t come out to a slow start. Got to be clicking on all cylinders. We couldn’t stop them to start the game.”

Carolna will will play sixth seeded Notre Dame here Sunday night in an 8:49 p.m. tip and a game that will end sometime after midnight, which speaks volumes for the concern both the NCAA and TBS have for the student athlete.

Carolina and the Irish split during the season, with the Notre Dame winning, 80-76 at South Bend and the Tar Heels crushing them, 78-47, in the semi-finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in D.C. “It’s extremely exciting,” Carolina senior guard Marcus Paige said. “It’s one of those things we’ve talked about all season long.”

This was a big night for the ACC, which placed four teams– Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia and Syracuse– in the region finals here and in Chicago, assuring this powerhouse league of two teams in the Final Four. “Definitely doesn’t surprise me, based on the quality of play in our league this year; it was fantastic,” senior guard Marcus Paige said of the league’s post season run. “Top to bottom, we had some really competitive games.”

Paige, a four-year starter, emerged from a prolonged slump, scoring 21 points and making 6 of 9 three pointers. He got off to a sizzling start, making the first four threes he attempted. “Marcus was making video game shots to start the game,” Crean said. “I mean seriously. He’s a tremendous player and we never got him under control with what we wanted to do on the wings.”

“It’s hard to explain,” Paige said. “I hadn’t been shooting the ball the way the way I have most of the season. I looked at March as a fresh start. I felt good. As a shooter, when you get that first one to go down, it’s always a good thing for your confidence. And then I was able to get free a couple times right after that and get pretty good looks at the rim, which are hard to come by sometimes as a six-foot guard. So that really helped me get going. And I think other guys fed off that And I think we shot the ball better than we have been, so that always helps against a team that can really score.”

Carolina (31-6) shot 61 percent for the half and 51.1 for the game with 11 threes. Johnson had 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Tar Heels, who are in the regional finals for the seventh time in coach Roy Williams’ 12 years and for the first time since 2012.

Ferrell had 25 points to lead Indiana (27-8).

Meeks had 15 points for the Tar Heels while Jackson and guard Joel Berry II both had 14.

“A lot of people have been saying, ‘Carolina’s not shooting the ball well outside,” Berry said.”We have shooters, it’ sjust we want to play inside out and not force so many threes. Sometimes you can rely on threes too much, you get away from learning how to score inside.”

Carolina coach Roy Williams has called this Carolina team his least appreciated, most criticized team he has ever coached.

“The last two to three weeks I think things have changed,” Williams said. “I felt like we were pretty doggone good before that. But I knew we could get a heck of a lot better.

“At one point,I guess after the Virginia game– is that our last loss? We had lost six games and we lost those six games by a total of 22 points. So we were pretty doggone good. I don’t think that was appreciated at that time.

“As long as my team is playing the way I like them, that’s good.

“I think the way we bounced back and played at home against Syracuse on Senior Day was very important to me, the way we went over to Durham and played against Duke the last regular season game was extremely important to me. I think that from that time on. people started to realize, hey, we’re okay and we’ve got a chance to do some things and we’re playing well.”

The Tar Heels has won five straight games since Feb. 27. They won both the ACC regular season and the conference tournament, beating Virginia, 61-57, in the final. And they have averaged 83 points in this tournament, beating three teams by an average of 23 points. And this was the 29th time they had held an opponent to less than 50 percent shooting.

North Carolina played outstanding,” Crean said. “If they play like that, even remotely close to that, then they’re going to be very, very hard to beat. And I hope they do. Because Roy deserves it. And they shot the ball — first thing Roy said coming off the court is they shot the ball extremely well.

Obviously we didn’t shoot it nearly as well as we’re capable of. I was never down about where our offense was, because we were missing shots we usually make. And we were missing shots that — I mean, you can’t have the success our team’s had on both ends of the court without having that level of confidence that those shots are going to go.

And they just didn’t have enough. And the first half really hurt us, no question about that. But we never really got the post game under control. The threes hurt us, no question about that, but the post-ups, they destroyed us.”