Top Ranked North Carolina, 18th Ranked Alabama That Have Identical Overall Records (5-1) Are Opposing Each Other Today In Phil Knight Invitational In Portland Oregon
Top ranked North Carolina, 18th ranked Alabama that have overall identical records (5-1) are opposing each other today in Phil Knight Invitational in Portland Oregon.
Top ranked North Carolina comes into the game with record of 5-1 because they lost to Iowa State a team that isn’t ranked 70-65 Friday.
In top ranked North Carolina’s 70-65 loss to Iowa State a team that isn’t ranked Armando Bacot was 5-6 on field goals to go along with 9 rebounds , 2 assists, 13 points . Pete Nance who is a graduate transfer from Northwestern was 3-6 on field goals, 1-3 on 3 pointers to go along 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 9 points . Leaky Black was 2-4 on field goals to go along 5 rebounds , 2 assists, 6 points . R.J. Davis was 5-14 on field goals 1-7 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds , 1 assists, 15 points . Caleb Love was 4-14 on field goals, 1-7 on 3 pointers to go along with 3 assists , 12 points . Puff Johnson was 2-4 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound , 2 points. Seth Trimble was 0-1 on field goals to go along 1 rebound, 2 points D”Marco Dunn was 1-1 on field goals to go along with 2 points
18th ranked Alabama comes to the game with a record of 5-1 because like North Carolina they lost in Phil Knight Invitational Friday.
Though, unlike topped ranked North Carolina who lost to Iowa State who isn’t ranked Alabama lost to 20th ranked Uconn 82-67.
In Alabama’s 82-67 loss to Uconn Noah Clowney was 3-6 0-1 from 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 9 points . Brandon Miller was 5-15 on field goals 3-6 from 3 pointers to go along with 9 rebounds , 3 assists, 18 points . Charles Bediako was 1-2 on field goals to go along 5 rebounds , 3 points. Noah Gurley was 1-3 on field goals 0-1 to go along with 2 points . Rylan Griffin was 2-2 on field goals 2-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 6 points . Jaden Bradley was 3-4 on field goals to go along with 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 12 points.
Though, Alabama also struggled in taking care of the Basketball committing 5 turnovers on their first 7 possession.
“According to article on rolltide.com”
Following Top ranked North Carolina’s 70-65 loss to unranked Iowa State North Carolina Head Coach Hubert Davis had this to say!
We had wide open threes. We were able to get to the basket . We were able to get whatever we wanted . We just didn’t make those shots. We turned the ball over a couple times and you can’t do that in late game situations . You have to be sound and discipline and you have to do that on both ends of the floor and we didn’t do that.
“According to espnapp”
Following Alabama’s 80-67 loss to Uconn Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats had this to say!
Tonight was a tough loss, UConn is obviously a really good team, and it is our first loss of the season so you learn about yourselves a little bit. I thought our first half turnovers killed us but we did a good job and showed a lot of fight getting back to tie the game up a couple of times in the second half, but we just fouled too much. They (UConn) went 17-of-18 from the free throw line. The fouling just negates all of our hustle on the defensive end and when we needed stops, we couldn't get them. We have got a lot of stuff we need to get better at; we have to take care of the ball better and I didn't think we had a good gameplan on how to stop their pick-and-roll with limited practice time. I didn't think our effort was bad. I just think we couldn't get some stops when we needed to, and they opened it up."
“According to Rolltide.com”
Tip off is set for 3:30pm from Veteran Memorial Coliseum!
The game is going to be televised on ESPN with Roxy Bernstein, Bill Walton commentating!