North Carolina’s victory over Duke vastly improved the Tar Heels’ NCAA resume ahead of Selection Sunday this weekend. The proof is the dramatic rise in the number of bracket projections from Sunday to Monday that have UNC as a No. 1 seed.
Category: Men's basketball
UNC highest in NET since January after seventh Quad 1 win
One week away from Selection Sunday, No. 7 North Carolina has helped its NCAA tournament resume with six consecutive wins, including the Tar Heels’ seventh Quad 1 victory on Saturday.
Arizona upset on rough night for Love; Garcia scores 30 in loss; McKoy hits 23 on senior night
Caleb Love suffered the second-worst scoring and shooting night of his career as No. 6 Arizona got upset, while Dawson Garcia had a huge night in a Minnesota loss and Justin McKoy finished the regular season by leading Hawaii to a big senior night win.
Ryan shoots UNC to outright ACC title, sweep of Duke
DURHAM — No. 7 North Carolina was not in the mood to share, and graduate guard Cormac Ryan repeatedly shot down that possibility. Ryan scored a career-high 31 points, hitting four big free throws in the final 16.7 seconds, as the Tar Heels clinched the ACC regular-season title outright with an 84–79 victory Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Love, Arizona clinch Pac-12 title; Adams finishes season with history-making effort
The sensational seasons for two former UNC backcourt teammates continue as Caleb Love keeps matching or topping RJ Davis and vice versa. Meanwhile, Destiny Adams finished her first season at Rutgers with a record-breaking effort.
UNC, which didn’t change in NET after blowout win, could still win a tiebreaker for No. 1 ACC tournament seed
The pattern of blowout wins helping teams in the NET rankings didn’t hold for No. 7 North Carolina on Tuesday night as the Tar Heels set their sights on trying to win the ACC regular-season title outright.
Bacot shows perimeter strength, plenty of emotion on senior night
CHAPEL HILL — At 8:46 p.m. on an emotional senior night, the Smith Center crowd roared one last time after Armando Linwood Bacot sank a 3-pointer for his last bucket in the arena. It came 1,581 days after he scored his first bucket on a short jumper 134 seconds into his career, also in a win against Notre Dame, and one day before he turns 24.
What are the latest NCAA projections and the ACC No. 1 seed scenarios?
There is more agreement in bracket projections that No. 7 North Carolina will be the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Regional, but there are plenty of opportunities for the Tar Heels to change that in the next two weeks.
White rallies Bulls from 22-point deficit with career-high 37 points
Coby White was in a zone on Monday night, and the Chicago Bulls rode that to a come-from-behind victory. White scored a career-high 37 points, with seven assists and five rebounds, as the Bulls rallied from a 22-point deficit to win at Sacramento 113–109.
UNC moves up in AP Top 25 men’s poll, another top-10 matchup with Duke ahead
Carolina moved up two spots to No. 7 in the AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll after a pair of victories last week, with another top-10 clash with Duke ahead on Saturday.
Love scores 22, dishes out 7 assists in senior day win; Puff Johnson starts, has career day
Caleb Love had a memorable senior night at Arizona as the Wildcats won their final Pac-12 home game, and Puff Johnson scored a career-high 19 points in his first start in 11 games in a Penn State loss.
UNC falls in NET after win with mostly bad news two weeks before Selection Sunday
There wasn’t much good NET rankings news for No. 9 North Carolina two weeks away from Selection Sunday after Saturday’s Quad 3 home victory over N.C. State.
Tar Heels flip defensive switch at halftime, rally to beat State
CHAPEL HILL — It was like No. 9 North Carolina flipped a defensive switch early in the second half. The Tar Heels gave up seven 3-pointers and 1.4 points per possession to N.C. State in the first half but forced the Wolfpack to come unglued offensively after halftime.
Garcia pours in 29 points; Love and Styles each score 16
Dawson Garcia poured in 29 points in a high-scoring Minnesota loss, while Caleb Love and Dontrez Styles both scored 16 in mid-week games.
Cam Johnson scores season-highs with 29 points, 7 3s, Sharpe adds 12, in Nets win
Cam Johnson had his best game of the season as the Brooklyn Nets fight to earn the last play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Johnson scored season-highs of 29 points and seven 3-pointers as the Nets rolled to a 124–97 home win Thursday over the Atlanta Hawks in the first home game since Kevin Ollie took over as head coach for the fired Jacque Vaughn.
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