WATCH: Mack Brown discusses Carolina's confidence and how the Tar Heels rallied to top South Carolina

It was Carolina's first season-opening win over a Power Five opponent since 1997

"We just kept telling the kids, ‘You’ve got to believe,’ and every time adversity hits we told them to get more positive, to get more animated," Brown said. "They’ve had a lot of things happen bad in their careers in the past two years and we just told them, ‘This is new, this is different.’"