North Carolina is in Charlottesville ahead of our big snowstorm to face Virginia in a key ACC Basketball matchup.
Game Details
- North Carolina (15-4, 3-3 ACC, NET: 27) at Virginia (16-2, 5-1 ACC, NET: 13)
- Time: noon ET
- TV: ESPN2 (Dave O’Brien/Cory Alexander)
Forecast
- KenPom: Virginia 80-71
- BartTorvik: Virginia 80-69
- ESPN BPI: Virginia +6.2
Pregame Coverage
- Preview: What UVA Basketball fans need to know about North Carolina
- ACC Hoops Notebook: What has been going on with North Carolina of late?
Game Coverage
Actually, pregame here
Media timeout: Virginia 10-2, 15:44/1st
Early fouls on Johann Grunloh and Ugonna Onyenso, so that’s an issue.
Virginia has five fast-break points, including a nice secondary-break three from Sam Lewis.
Timeout UNC: Virginia 24-17, 10:24/1st
Virginia is 4-of-8 from three. Three-point D has been a problem of late for UNC.
Onyenso has six early points, on two postups and a stickback.
In the paint:
Virginia: 6-of-9
UNC: 3-of-6
Media timeout: Virginia 30-19, 7:47/1st
Thijs de Ridder has 11 points (3-of-4 FG, 1-of-1 3FG, 4-of-4 FT).
Virginia is rebounding 50% of its misses.
Carolina is 6-of-17 from the floor.
Media timeout: Virginia 37-26, 3:54/1st
Carolina is in the business (Virginia just got whistled for its seventh foul); UNC has three fouls.
Uh, huh.
Virginia has missed five of its last six threes.
Half: Virginia 43, North Carolina 34
Virginia led by as many as 16, but Carolina closed on a 7-0 run in the final 1:32.
Shooting
Overall
UVA: 16-of-35
UNC: 11-of-31
Paint
UVA: 10-of-17
UNC: 5-of-12
Midrange
UVA: 0-of-3
UNC: 1-of-8
Three
UVA: 6-of-15
UNC: 5-of-11
Free throws
UVA: 5-of-6
UNC: 7-of-11
Odom Ball
- Rebounding: Virginia 47.4% offensive rebound rate, 73.9% defensive rebound rate
- Points in the paint: Virginia 20-10
- Points off turnovers: UNC 5-0
- Second-chance points: Virginia 14-5
Second half
Virginia timeout: Virginia 49-44, 17:06/2nd
Carolina has made its last four shots, so Ryan Odom calls a TO.
It’s been 17-6 UNC over the past 4:26 of game time.
I think the timeout was about the two threes made by Seth Trimble.
Carolina is 7-of-13 from three right now.
Media timeout: North Carolina 59-58, 11:26/2nd
Somebody needs to correct for the Carolina bigs leaking out on the defensive boards. They’re Antawn Jamison-ing our bigs to death right now.
Media timeout: Tied at 67, 7:32/2nd
Carolina led briefly by five.
UNC is 13-of-19 from the field in the second half.
Heels are 9-of-10 in the paint in the second half.
Media timeout: Virginia 73-72, 3:51/2nd
Virginia is 1-of-9 from three in the second half.
Carolina fixed that problem.
De Ridder (19 points, seven rebounds) and Caleb Wilson (18 points, two rebounds) are making themselves money today.
Media timeout: North Carolina 78-74, 2:00/2nd
Two and-ones by UNC, three missed free throws by de Ridder, are the difference right now.
UNC timeout: North Carolina 81-79, 43.8 seconds left
Carolina led by seven on a Jarin Stevenson three, but a three by Malik Thomas, a block by Grunloh, and a driving layup by Dallin Hall have us back at two.
Final: North Carolina 85, Virginia 80
Virginia led by as many as 16 points in the first half, but credit to UNC coach Hubert Davis, for some x’s and o’s work that turned this one into an 85-80 win.
The Tar Heels (16-4, 5-3 ACC) made 13 of their first 17 shots in the second half to turn a nine-point halftime deficit into a five-point lead.
An 11-3 UVA run capped by a Thijs de Ridder driving layup put Virginia back up three, at 73-70, with 4:47 to go, but the Heels held Virginia without a bucket for the next 3:26, and the 11-1 scoring run, capped by a Jarin Stevenson three, got the score to 81-74 UNC with 1:38 left.
A quick flurry got the deficit for Virginia (16-3, 5-2 ACC) to 81-79 with 49 seconds left, but that was as close as it would get.
The adjustment by Davis was twofold: in the halfcourt offense, attack the paint, and release a big, usually Stevenson, on defensive rebounds, to get ahead of UVA’s bigs.
It worked: Carolina was 12-of-16 in the paint in the second half.
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