North Carolina Is Getting Another Crack At Pittsburgh Saturday Afternoon Because They're Hosting Pittsburgh For Rematch In Chapel Hill

North Carolina lost the first match up of 2024-2025 regular season to Pittsburgh Tuesday January 28, 2025 73-65 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Where?

On the hardwood!

As North Carolina lost the first match up of 2024-2025 regular season to Pittsburgh Tuesday January 28, 2025 in Pittsburgh as a team North Carolina shot 44.1 % on field goals, 29.2 % on 3 pointers, had 14 turnovers. Three players scored in double figures!

Elliott Cadeau was 5-10 on field goals , 1-6 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds, 7 assists , 1 steal , 10 points. RJ Davis was 6-12 on field goals , 3-6 on 3 pointers, 1-2 on free throws to go along with 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 16 points. Seth Trimble was 3-14 on field goals , 0-5 on 3 pointers , 4-5 on free throws to go along 12 rebounds, 2 assists.

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Following North Carolina’s 73-65 loss to Pittsburgh Tuesday night in Chapel Hill RJ Davis who was 6-12 on , 3-6 on 3 pointers, 1-2 on free throws to go along with 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 16 points had this to say!

It’s kind of like the same movie over and over again at this point,”

adding a little bit later that it’s “kind of just like the same thing over and over again.”

According to Andrew Carter News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article299229704.html

North Carolina is getting another crack at Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon because they’re hosting Pittsburgh for rematch in Chapel Hill.

Where?

On the hardwood!

North Carolina comes into the rematch with Pittsburgh with record of 13-10 overall 6-5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is seventh in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because they’ve lost two straight Atlantic Coast Conference games including an 87-70 loss to tobacco road rival Duke Saturday in Durham.In North Carolina’ 87-70 loss to Duke on Saturday in Durham as a team North Carolina shot 47.3 % on field goals , 36.8 % on 3 pointers and had 14 turnovers. Three players scored in double figures RJ Davis was 4-11 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers , 2-2 on free throws to go along with 5 rebounds , 2 assists , 12 points. Drake Powell was 5-8 on field goals , 1-3 on 3 pointers , 1-1 on free throws to go along 1 rebound, 1 assists , 12 points. Drake Powell was 5-8 on field goals , 1-3 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound, 1 assists, 12 points.

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Following North Carolina’s 87-70 loss to tobacco road rival Duke senior guard RJ Davis who was 4-11 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 5 rebounds , 2 assists, 12 points had this to say about North Carolina who as a team committed 14 turnovers when opposing tobacco road rival Duke!

“I think we just shot ourselves in the foot with a lot of turnovers in the first half that led to easy transition baskets for them,”

I still have faith,”

said, standing outside of the locker room, his hands fidgeting with the straps on his backpack. “You might think I’m crazy for thinking that way. I don’t know. I’m just that positive, but I still have faith and belief that we can turn this whole thing around.”

Though, North Carolina guard RJ Davis wasn’t the only Davis to share his thoughts following North Carolina’s 87-70 loss to Duke Saturday night in Durham as North Carolina Head Coach Hubert Davis did as well by saying The one encouraging thing for me is that I don’t think we’ve reached our full potential, and that’s out there,”

“I’ve seen how good we can be on both ends of the floor, the consistency is the thing that is needed from this group. And we have time, and we have opportunity to move forward to be able to do that.”

Following North Carolina’s 87-70 loss to tobacco road rival North Carolina forward Ven -Allen Lubin had this to say!

Everything’s not going to go the way we want to,”

“We’re going to have some ups and downs in the season, and really just in life in general, and so we’re just trying to stick together as a team.”

According to Shelby Swanson News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article299233454.htm

Pittsburgh comes into the rematch with North Carolina with record of 14-8 overall 5-6 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is eighth in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because like North Carolina Pittsburgh has lost two straight Atlantic Coast Conference games including their game Monday night to Virginia 73-57 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. where as a team Pittsburgh shot 41.9 % on field goals , 30.0 % on 3 pointers , 71.4 on free throws where only one player scored in double figures in Ishimael Leggett who was 7-11 on field goals , 1-3 on 3 pointers , 2-4 on free throws to go along with 6 rebounds , 17 points.

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Following Pittsburgh’s 73-57 loss to Virginia Monday night in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Head Coach Jeff Capel had this to say!

They were terrific. Right from the start, they were ready to go. They played with great energy, great physicality, and they

manhandled us at every position, and so congrats to them. I’m really disappointed in our performance. This is probably as bad

of a performance of any team I've ever coached. It was embarrassing. I'm sorry to the crowd, students, fans. It's my responsibility. I have to do a better job of making sure we're ready to goI’m not going to answer for them. I'm not a mind reader. When we got here yesterday for our practice, we did feedback from

Wake Forest and talked about how we didn't close the game out there. Then we immediately went into Virginia about the

things that we needed to do with our film session and our own court work. We talked to the team about how Virginia was in a similar situation and they lost a really close game at home to their big rival. This game was going to be about who can

respond. We lost a tough game against Wake Forest and this was who can respond, who can fight through it, with a short turnaround.”

Following Pittsburgh’s 73-57 loss to Virginia Monday night in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Jorge Diaz Graham who was 3-7 on field goals , 3-6 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 1 steal , 1 block, 9 points had this to say about the teams offense on his strong play tonight on how to encourage teammates on how to move forward with loss on poor start to the game!

I don't think offense was a problem. I don't think we defended right. Offensively, we were trying to get Virginia out of their rhythm and then just play their switch. We didn't know they would not shoot switch. We adopted, I think, fine, but it was just defensively.Believe in us. Just keep shooting and we need to get better shots, but I believe in every one of my teammates, and even ifthey're making shots, keep shooting. Just believe in ourselves. Keep fighting.We just need to learn from it and just keep fighting. Nobody's gonna stop. We can't feel sorry for ourselves, keep fighting as a group and overcome this stuff.I think we got hit in the first half, and we never recovered from that. I think our body language wasn't right since the

beginning, and I think we gave up. We need to learn from this, and this has to be that game that changes the season, and I

believe there's still time. I believe we are good team. We just need to keep fighting together and just be the team we are

According to https://pittsburghpanthers.com/documents/2025/2/3/Quotes.pdf

Tip off is set for 4:00pm from Dean E. Smith Center!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN2 with Mike Monaco, Chris Spatola commentating!