North Carolina To Host Winston - Salem State For Exhibition Before The Regular Season Begins

North Carolina who is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference will play their only exhibition game when they host Winston -Salem State who is a member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association on Friday before they open up the regular season with an Atlantic Coast Conference game on Tuesday when they host Notre Dame who is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in every sport with the exception of the team on the grid iron who is independent.

Last season North Carolina finished with a record of 29-7 while Winston -Salem State finished with a record of 12-15.

As for how North Carolina finished last season,

They lost to Auburn in the sweet sixteen,

Auburn insisted all along that it wouldn't change its style against up-tempo North Carolina. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Turns out the SEC Tournament champs can run a bit, too. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Auburn earned its second trip to the Elite Eight by coasting to a to a 97-80 victory over the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region on Friday night. The trigger-happy Tigers overcame an early deficit with a hot-shooting second to return to the region final for the first time in 33 years. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

North Carolina (29-7) was the first top seed eliminated from this year's NCAA Tournament. Auburn (29-9) tied its 1998-99 mark for most wins in a season. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx
The Tar Heels' bevy of athletes could do nothing to slow down Auburn, which got 20 points and 11 boards from Chuma Okeke before he left with a gruesome knee injury late in the game. The big forward certainly didn't do it alone as the Tigers had six in double-figures scoring, and they knocked down 17 of 37 3-pointers in a virtuoso shooting performance.”according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Malik Dunbar finished with 13 points, Bryce Brown and Danjel Purifoy scored 12 apiece, and Jared Harper scored nine while dishing out 11 assists in Auburn's latest takedown of college hoops royalty.

It was Kansas last week. It was North Carolina on Friday night. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

It might be Kentucky next — the second-seeded Wildcats played No. 3 Houston in the second game in Kansas City for the right to face arguably the hottest team in the NCAA Tournament. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Coby White and Cameron Johnson had 15 points apiece for North Carolina, which had won 10 of its last 11 with the lone loss coming to Duke in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Auburn-Carolina was the track meet everyone anticipated from the opening tip, the only difference that the Tar Heels preferred to go to the basket while the Tigers kept pulling up for 3s. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Early on, they didn't make nearly enough. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Yet they managed to track down all the long boards, allowing coach Bruce Pearls' team to hang tough on the glass against the team with nation's No. 1 rebounding differential. That in turn gave them second and third chances down floor, and allowed Auburn to take a 41-39 lead into the break. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

The Tigers' run eventually reached 14-0 spanning halftime, giving them the first double-digit lead of the game. Roy Williams finally relented and called timeout, and the genteel North Carolina coach with the aw-shucks disposition spent most of it savagely ripping into his bench. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

The Tar Heels responded, at least for a while. But even when Maye and Johnson managed to trim their deficit to 60-54 with 13 minutes left, and a building solidly packed with Carolina blue began to stir, a brazen bunch of Tigers answered by rejected a pair of dunks and knocking down a 3. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Or two or three of them. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

In fact, they knocked down five straight 3s at one point. Purifoy had two, prompting Williams to ask, "Who has No. 3!?" The answer was nobody: Purifoy knocked down another for good measure. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

The Tigers' momentum finally slowed when Okeke's left knee buckled on the way to the basket. The sophomore forward crumpled to the floor along the baseline, rolling around in agony and disappointment, and it eventually took two trainers to help him limp to the locker room. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Auburn gave him something good to watch on television. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

Brown knocked down one more 3 to give the Tigers an 88-72 lead with 2:12 left, then took a steal for an emphatic breakaway dunk that the left the backboard shaking, and a single section sporting orange opposite the Auburn joined the rocking for a team headed to its first Elite Eight since 1986. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx


LITTLE HELP
Tar Heels freshman Nassir Little checked in midway through the first half after dealing with flu-like symptoms all week. Little starred off the bench in wins over Iona and Washington but clearly slowed against the Tigers, finishing with four points in 12 minutes. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2019/3/29/mens-basketball-sweet-16-vs-auburn-recap.aspx

As for how Winston Salem State finished last season they lost to Elizabeth City State.by a score of 62-61 in the CIAA Men's Basketball Championship Opening Round. “according to https://wssurams.com/sports/m-baskbl/2018-19/schedule

Tip-off is set for 7:30pm from the Dean E. Smith Center. The game will be televised on ACC Network Extra.