20th Ranked North Carolina Is Hosting 10th Ranked Alabama For ACC/ SEC Challenge Wednesday Night In Chapel Hill

20th ranked North Carolina is hosting 10th ranked Alabama for ACC/ SEC Challenge Wednesday night in Chapel Hill.

Where?

On the hardwood!

10th ranked North Carolina comes into the ACC/ SEC Challenge with record of 4-3 because they lost to Michigan State in overtime 94-91 when they were ranked in the 3rd place game of Maui Jim Maui Invitational Wednesday night in Maui Hawaii.

As 12th ranked North Carolina lost to Michigan State in overtime 94-91 in the 3rd place game of Maui Jim Maui Invitational Wednesday night in Maui Hawaii four players scored in double figures. Elliott Cadeau was 5-10 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers , 5-5 on free throws to go along with 3 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal, 4 turnovers, 17 points. RJ Davis was 6-18 on field goals , 2-6 on 3 pointers, 2-3 on free throws to go along with 3 rebounds, 7 assists , 3 steals , 16 points. Ian Jackson was 5-8 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers , 2-4 on free throws to go along with 4 rebounds , 14 points. Drake Powell was 7-9 on field goals , 4-6 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound , 1 assists , 1 block , 18 points.

Following 12th ranked North Carolina losing to Michigan State in overtime 94-91 in the 3rd place game of Maui Jim Maui Invitational Wednesday night in Maui Hawaii Head Coach Hubert Davis had this to say about technical foul that was given to him!

I’m not going to comment on that, but I never use profanity,”I never show up anybody.”
According to Hayden Cilley Clutch Points article https://clutchpoints.com/north-carolina-basketball-news-hubert-davis-blunt-reaction-first-technical

10th Alabama comes into the ACC/ SEC Challenge with record of 6-2 because like 20th ranked North Carolina they lost in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational though unlike North Carolina Alabama to Oregon on Saturday November 30, 2024 via score of 83-81 in Las Vegas Nevada. As Alabama lost 83-81 to Oregon in the Championship Game five players scored in double figures Labarson Philon was 6-8 on field goals 2-2 on 3 pointers , 1-2 on free throws to go along with 7 rebounds, 2 assists , 1 steal , 15 points. Mark Sears was 3-14 on field goals , 1-11 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals , 1 block, 11 points. Latrell Wrightsell Jr. was 3-5 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 steal, 1 block, 10 points. Jarin Stevenson was 3-4 on field goals, 3 pointers to go along with 5 rebounds , 11 points . Aden Holloway was 4-12 on field goals , 3-10 on 3 pointers 2 rebounds, 5 assists, 11 points.

Following Alabama’s 83-81 loss to Oregon in Maui Jim Maui Invitational Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats had this to say!

Tough way to lose a game and our turnovers have been haunting us here in Vegas. Last game (Rutgers) and this game we have been giving up points off turnovers and it is hard to overcome that, so we have got to figure a way to take care of the basketball better. It is everybody that is turning the ball over and we still had issues guarding the post. We didn't shoot it particularly well in stretches tonight but you are going to have games like that and you have to overcome poor shooting nights. This was not what we were looking to do out here but that is a good team, we have to learn from it and we got to play better and get ourselves regrouped for Carolina on Wednesday." 

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Tip off is set for 7:15pm Eastern Time from Dean E. Smith Center!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN with Jon Sciambi, Jay Williams commentating!

Jay Williams played for Duke for former Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski averaged 19.3 points per game, 6.0 assists and 3.7 rebounds for the Blue Devils, while shooting .453 from the floor and .393 from 3-point range. He also led Duke to a 95-13 (.880) record and the 2001 NCAA National Championship. He averaged double figures as a freshman, which helped earn him the ACC Rookie of the Year award in 2000 and recognition as a first-team All-America player.

In his sophomore season with the Blue Devils, Williams shattered several school and NCAA records. With 841 points and a 25.7 ppg average, he topped Dick Groat’s 49-year-old record for most points in a season. Williams also set an NCAA Tournament record for 3-pointers attempted with 66. His 132 3-point field goals amounted to the sixth-highest total in NCAA history; his conference-leading 21.6 ppg designated him as the first Duke player to lead the ACC in scoring since Danny Ferry in 1989. Williams’ 6.1 assists ranked second in the league, while he also ranked second in 3-point field goal percentage (.427) and first in 3-pointers made (3.4 per game).

At the final game in his junior year, Williams’ No. 22 jersey was retired at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Then he was drafted by the Chicago Bulls second by Chicago in the 2002 NBA Draft, just behind No. 1 pick Yao Ming, and started 54 of 75 games for the Bulls in the 2002-03 season. During his first season in the NBA, his most memorable performance was a game against his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, during which Williams scored a triple-double.

Though, Jay Williams life wasn’t always perfect as he was in a motorcycle accident in 2003 that ended his NBA career where he crashed his motorcycle into a utility pole in Chicago that led him to sustaining a severed cracked artery in his left leg , a cracked sacrum a dislocated knee

According to https://www.the-sun.com/sport/9128962/jay-williams-horror-motorcycle-accident/