Top Ranked North Carolina Is Hosting UNC Wilmington Tonight In Chapel Hill As They're Tipping Off 2022-2023 Regular Season
Top ranked North Carolina is hosting UNC Wilmington tonight in Chapel Hill as they’re tipping off 2022-2023 regular season.
North Carolina, UNC Wilmington have faced, opposed each other before!
There previous match up was on December 5, 2018 in Chapel Hill!
In that match up North Carolina won 97-69!
Cameron Johnson scored 21 points to help then 14th ranked North Carolina
Freshman forward Nassir Little added 14 points in the Tar Heels' first game since losing at No. 5 Michigan last week. North Carolina (7-2) led 44-35 at halftime but went on a 30-3 run to blow this one open and finish the game shooting 49 percent.
Junior guard Seventh Woods had seven points and three assists while starting at the point with Coby White sitting due to a sore ankle. Kenny Williams had a solid all-around floor game with 11 points, five rebounds and eight assists.
“According to Aaron Beard’s article on goheels.com”
In that match up UNC Wilmington lost to North Carolina by a score 69-97.
In UNC Wilmington’s loss to North Carolina Jeantal Cylla paced the Seahawks with 16 points and sophomore guard Jay Estime'chipped in 12 markers. UNCW managed just 35.5 percent from the field, its second poorest shooting night of the young season.
UNCW fell behind early and rallied to take a brief lead midway in the first half before the Tar Heels regained the advantage for good and capitalized on a cold spell by the Seahawks early in the second half.
Trailing, 44-35, at halftime, the Seahawks scored the first two buckets of the final period and Cylla's jumper along the left baseline pulled C.B. McGrath's club within 44-39 with 19:10 remaining.
The Seahawks were still hanging around, 48-41, with just over 17 minutes left when the bottom dropped out. Sparked by Johnson and junior guard Seventh Woods, the Tar Heels scored 16 consecutive points and added another spurt of 14 unanswered points in the 30-3 run that broke the game open.
UNC Wimington went 1-for-13 from the floor in the stretch and committed seven turnovers in a 7:22 span as the Tar Heels scored in a variety of ways. The Seahawks finished with 25 turnovers and the Tar Heels scored 34 points off those miscues.
UNC Wilmington spotted the Tar Heels the first seven points of the game before junior guard Jaylen Fornesconverted a driving layup with just under 18 minutes left to get the Seahawks on the board.
After a Cylla jumper on the left wing closed the early deficit to 9-6, North Carolina reeled off seven unanswered points to pull ahead, 16-6, capped by Little's dunk at 12:35.
Unc Wilmington still trailed, 22-15, at the 11-minute mark before using a 9-0 spurt to grab their first lead of the contest. A triple by Fornes on the right side with 8:34 left in the opening half gave the Seahawks a 24-22 edge.
But North Carolina responded in a big way with a 10-0 run of their own and maintained the margin for the remainder of the first period. Johnson did most of the damage and wound up with 13 points in the first 20 minutes for the Tar Heels.
”According to article on uncwsports.com”
Tip off is set for 9:00pm from Dean E. Smith Center!
The game is going to be televised on ACC Network!