UNC has the on-paper talent to play with any group in the ACC. But with the season quickly progressing, the Tar Heels’ offensive efficiency — or lack thereof — will determine if meeting their full potential is even discussed this year.
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Despite a late run, the Tar Heels were unable to win their first conference game of the season, after shots by first-year guards RJ Davis and Caleb Love fell short at the buzzer.
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In a normal year, an early season victory against Kentucky would mean good things to come for UNC basketball. But with Kentucky out to a 1-5 start, Saturday's win still leaves the Tar Heels short of a marquee victory. Here are three takeaways from UNC's final out-of-conference game.
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In the short term, with only a hectic offseason and a haphazard non-conference slate to correct any issues, the Tar Heels will have to rely on unexpected — or in the apparent case of Kerwin Walton, extremely expected by the rest of his team — breakout performances to buy them more time to gather themselves and contend for an ACC title.
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Against a reeling Kentucky team, UNC was able to capitalize on its opponent's foul troubles and come away with a win behind strong 3-point shooting from first-year Kerwin Walton.
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Consider Saturday’s game against N.C. Central a reminder, intentional or not, of what Armando Bacot means to this team. He paced the Tar Heels with 19 points and 11 rebounds, helping the team to a 73-67 win and showing the kind of lift he can give when UNC isn’t exactly firing on all cylinders.
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In yet another game where the North Carolina Tar Heels started slowly, it was first-year forward Day'Ron Sharpe who provided energy and defense for UNC to stay in the game against North Carolina Central University to eventually come away with a 73-67 victory.
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North Carolina’s No. 16 men’s basketball team defeated North Carolina Central on Saturday with a final score of 73-67.
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Although Tuesday night's second-half push was not enough to get the Tar Heels over the hump against Iowa, the group demonstrated a fighting quality that may not have existed a year ago. “I’m pretty sure that last year we would have lost this game by 25,” Garrison Brooks said.
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Despite early struggles from AP preseason player of the year Luka Garza, No. 3 Iowa's late-game 14-0 run sealed its win over No. 16 North Carolina, 93-80.
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The North Carolina men's basketball team was bad last season — a record-breaking level of bad. Head coach Roy Williams marked his only losing season in his tenure coaching collegiate basketball and the Tar Heels — in part due to a running list of injuries — never found a way to click on the court.
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The No. 14 North Carolina basketball team fell to No. 17 Texas on Wednesday, 69-67, clawing back from a 12-point first-half deficit only to see Longhorn guard Matt Coleman III nail a game-winning jumper with 0.1 seconds left. Here are three takeaways from the game — and the Maui tournament as a whole.
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“We’re still learning, still getting better as a team,” Brooks said. “It’s an everyday process to keep working every day, get used to how everybody plays.”
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The No. 14 North Carolina men's basketball team (3-1) fell in dramatic fashion to No. 17 Texas (4-0) in the championship game of the Camping World Maui Invitational on Wednesday, 69-67. After a poor first half, the Tar Heels erased a 12-point deficit just after halftime, only to be done in by a jumper from Texas' Matt Coleman III with 0.1 seconds to play.
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“I feel like we’re battle-tested, I feel like we’ve been through everything we could’ve possibly been through after last year,” Black said. “We’ve got some guys that are willing to learn and fight when the going gets tough. That’s all you can ask for.”
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The only former UNC assistant coach to get an elusive victory against their former boss, Roy Williams, was Jerod Haase and his 2013 UAB Blazers.
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The No. 14 North Carolina men’s basketball team (3-0, 0-0 ACC) used great defense and a few late clutch buckets to defeat Stanford (1-1, 0-0 PAC-12).
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“We’ve got to play better,” coach Roy Williams said. “We can’t spot a lot of people 13 and think you’re gonna come back and win, so we’ve gotta play better during that time period.”
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The No. 14 North Carolina men’s basketball team (2-0) defeated UNLV (0-2), 78-51, in the first round of the Maui Invitational, despite a sloppy first half.
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Junior Leaky Black, redshirt first-year Anthony Harris, and first-years Kerwin Walton and Puff Johnson are project to be the four main wings on this year’s team.
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