These two teams really aren't that similar. UNC has shown steady improvement and solid effort the whole year. They have evolved into a very good team. Syracuse is on a wild ride that started 3 days ago, but they laid down like dogs just 8 days ago and lost by 39 to a bad team. Can't really call the Syracuse season a success.
Carolina was starting from scratch, and has made a great run, near the top 10 teams in the country, Syracuse is just hot right now...they could both get to the sweet 16 very easily.