Sometimes you just need to tip your cap when you’re bested by a superior opponent. The UNC basketball program ran into just that on Tuesday night, when the No. 4 ranked Auburn Tigers put on an absolute clinic of possession-based dominance.

North Carolina was ill-equipped to deal with Auburn’s size in the paint or their length in the backcourt that made simple tasks like passing side-to-side a Herculean task.

There’s no shame to losing to a team like Auburn that has already gone into then No. 4 Houston’s temporary home at the Toyota Center, and dropped 74 points on Bart Torvik’s No. 1 adjusted defensive efficiency squad.

Let’s look at some lessons learned from a rough and tumble loss to Auburn in the Maui Invitational semi-finals.