1. Carolina averted a Thanksgiving disaster by defeating Portland, 89-81. The pilot used a versatile offense, assisting on 22 of his goals on the field of 28, making the game much tighter than expected.credit RJ Davisnot a great day overall, but led the heels with five assists.
2. Pete Nance Early in his Carolina career, he has shown a tendency to streak all around. He was consistently good on Thursday, hitting five of his eight 3-pointers and succeeding in some key moments in the second half. He had a crucial second-half 20 points when the Tar Heels desperately needed it.
3. Crimes are mainly nonces, Caleb Love manufacturing. The tar heel duo combined Carolina’s 51 points. For the last 20 minutes they Armando Baco, six of which appear in aggressive glasses. These boards were part of Tar Heels’ first dominant effort on grass this season as they held a 37-22 advantage.
4. Thursday’s game had a very strange run. Carolina though she led 18-8 Hubert Davis I started using his bench. Admittedly the Reserve was not productive in his first 20 minutes ( Dimarco Dan The UNC bench’s only point was a 3 in that period. Because he beat Portland 13-3 in that category), two other things also apply to him: The Tar Heels need to find a reliable reserve, and one span away from home he’s five. play the match 11 days. The final bench point tally was a whopping 25-3 in favor of the pilots. Dimarco Dan, puff johnson When Tyler Nickel They were the only reserves to play in the second half, amassing five minutes in between.
5. Love’s 23 points surpassed 1,000 points and earned 1,020 career points. This made him his 80th tar heel to surpass 1,000 and his most points in college basketball. Louisville has his second-most 1,000-point club member with 69 points. Love had his 16 points easily over the mark in the first half as the main reason the Tar Heels took his 40–38 lead. Jr. scored or assisted on 10 of Carolina’s 16 first-half field goals, and the highly-enthusiastic Love had all three of Carolina’s first-half stolen bases.
6. Tyler Robertson was the most important part of Portland’s offense early in the season, leading the team with 17.5 points per game. leaky black Drawing him a defensive assignment on Thanksgiving, the first half was very effective, with Robertson limiting himself to just one field goal attempt. The shooter did slightly better in the second half, hitting 4 of his 11 shots. Most importantly, Carolina kept him off the free-throw line and attempted 24 of his tries against Portland State earlier this season.
7. Carolina was a good free-throw shooting team on top of last season, but the charity stripes were a problem on Thursday. The Tar Heels helped keep the pilots close as he missed five straight free throws in the key stretch late in the second half. Armando Baco Finally broke the streak by sinking the second of two attempts from timeouts. Carolina finished just 13-22 from the line (59.1%).
8. Bacot’s 11-point, 13-rebound double-double marked 51 in his Carolina career with Antawn Jamison. Billy Cunningham leads the category with 60.
9. The 10:00 am local tip time required some adjustments to the normal Tar Heel Basketball pre-game routine. The program normally has his pregame meal four hours before tip-off, but breakfast at 6 a.m. didn’t seem very appealing to college students, so it was adjusted to 7 a.m. . , so the heel has some recent history with an earlier start. However, this was the earliest start anyone can remember in the history of the program.
10. As you can imagine, there were plenty of Nike-related festivities around the event. The event included a behind-the-scenes tour of his campus, with commentary from key figures in basketball, including Roy Williams.
11. Williams, of course, also attended the Moda Center on Thursday. The life of a demigod is anything but ordinary. Imagine taking dozens of selfies with strangers before 10am on Thanksgiving.
12. Carolina is now waiting to see who the winners of Villanova and Iowa will face at 2:30 PM local time (5:30 PM ET). Either way, the final meeting wouldn’t have been fun, and the last time Carolina faced Iowa State was her 85-83 record in her final second in the 2013 NCAA Tournament. It was a defeat. His last matchup with Villanova was in the 2016 NCAA Championship Game.
13. The 5:30 PM ET start time marks a busy day for athletics in Carolina. Of course, Tar Heel football will host NC State at 3:30 PM ET. The match will be played at all regular Tar Heel Sports Network outlets. His THSN broadcasts of basketball games are available on the Varsity app, his website and app on GoHeels, and locally on 102.5 FM.
