Those who think the rivalry between Tobacco Road opponents UNC and N.C. State has long since dried up might want to take a look at the tape from the end of Saturday afternoon’s game at the RBC Center. In the waning minutes of a 93-76 win, UNC coach Roy Williams removed his starters from the game. Carolina senior Mike Copeland, who has played in just six games this season, went up to for a dunk with less than two seconds remaining in the game.  “They’re guys that haven’t played and want two points,” N.C. State coach Sidney Lowe said. “You can’t fault a man for being in the game for 35 seconds and having a chance to score two points in an ACC game.” N.C. State’s Ben McCauley took exception and pulled him to the floor. Copeland immediately grabbed his head and went after McCauley, and the referees were forced to break up the disturbance. “It was a good foul, but I think the way he fell down…he didn’t really like that,” Wolfpack senior Courtney Fells said of Copeland. “There was no reason for a reaction like that, that’s what you have to expect. Ben did a great job of keeping his composure and not hitting him back.” McCauley didn’t react when Copeland came after him, saying he would have been an “idiot to take a swing” and earn a one-game suspension. “He can do that on his own floor or whatever, but don’t come into our home building with the game over, trying to dunk like that,” McCauley said. In his own defense, McCauley pointed to the unwritten rules of etiquette in college basketball, which allow beaten teams to walk off the court with pride still intact. “This team wouldn’t do something like that, so why would we expect someone else to do that?” McCauley said. “When the game is over, the game is over. Let the clock run out.” After consulting with Williams and Lowe, the referees distributed matching technical fouls and personal fouls to McCauley and Copeland and gave McCauley one additional foul. Though the referees did not throw anyone out of the game, Williams sent Copeland to the locker room. Strangely, because Copeland was not available, Carolina’s Patrick Moody was allowed to take the free throws in his stead, a strange occurrence that could have been pivotal if the shots mattered. In reality, however, they didn’t. Carolina outshot the Pack 46-16 in the paint and surrendered a lead a few minutes in that it never recovered. Though the team crawled within 7 points of Carolina with several minutes left on the clock, a TV timeout removed every trace of momentum. “We did a great job of fighting back, but down the stretch we had a little conditioning problem,” Fells said. “We’ll take it and move on.” Tyler Hansbrough put up 31 points in his most productive game since November. N.C. State’s big men, Brandon Costner and McCauley, couldn’t get it done, as Costner found himself in foul trouble and McCauley had a poor shooting night. Fells totaled two points in the first half but came alive for 20 in the second. “[Fells] got us going,” Lowe said. “Our guys were playing off him. He was knocking the shots down. Our players have to understand that we need to work off who is hot and getting things done. Today, that was him.”