Earlier This Season North Carolina, Georgia Tech Matched Up On The Hardwood In Atlanta! For The Rematch Tonight North Carolina, Georgia Tech Are Matching Up In Chapel Hill!
Earlier this season North Carolina, Georgia Tech matched up on the hardwood in Atlanta!
In the earlier match up on the hardwood in Atlanta North Carolina won 79-62!
In North Carolina’s 79-62 win over Georgia Tech RJ Davis scored 13 of his game-high 23 points in the second half Sunday afternoon as North Carolina pulled away in the second half to defeat Georgia Tech 79-62 in the ACC opener for both teams.
The game was tied 31-all at halftime, after UNC (6-2) overcame a nine-point deficit behind stingy defense. Georgia Tech (5-3) lost its second straight contest as senior guard Michael Devoe, who entered the game as the nation's leading scorer with a 25-point average, was limited to 13 points on 5 of 12 shooting.
Freshman guard Deebo Coleman scored 13 points for Tech, which also got 13 from senior wingman Khalid Moore.
North Carolina won with balance. Four players finished with double-figure scoring, including Caleb Love with with 17 points and Armando Bacot who pitched in with 15 points and a game-high 13 rebounds.
Georgia Tech was the better team for much of the first half.
Georgia Tech built a nine-point lead on a steal and dunk by Moore with 8:43 remaining, but North Carolina outscored the Jackets 17-8 from there to even the score by halftime.
Devoe scored just six points over the first half as North Carolina made it difficult for him to receive the ball and generally double-teamed him any time he had ball inside of the 3-point line.
North Carolina coach Hubert Davis, who is in his first season at the helm of the Tar Heels, had his team play mostly man-to-man defense and generally deployed guards Anthony Harris and Leaky Black on the Tech sharpshooter.
In the earlier match up Georgia Tech lost to North Carolina by a score of 62-79!
In Georgia Tech’s 62-79 loss to North Carolina A four-and-a-half minute, second-half scoring drought for Georgia Tech men’s basketball proved to be too much to overcome as it fell 79-62 to hot-shooting North Carolina. After keeping the first half neck-and-neck, reaching the intermission tied at 31 apiece, Tech edged ahead 35-31 four minutes into the second half before the Tar Heels went on a 19-4 run to take control of the game. The Yellow Jackets (5-3, 0-1 ACC) were unable to keep up with the red-hot shooting Tar Heels (6-2, 1-0 ACC), who shot a blistering 56.4 percent from the field and 58.8 percent from three-point land to push their lead out to 19.
Conversely, Tech shot at a 46.3-percent clip overall, including a 42.9 percentage from downtown.
Individually, the Jackets had a balanced attack offensively. Michael Devoe, Khalid Moore and Deebo Coleman all led the way with 13 points apiece, while Kyle Sturdivant also finished in double digits with 11 points.
For the rematch tonight North Carolina, Georgia Tech are matching up on the hardwood in Chapel Hill!
North Carolina, Georgia Tech both aren’t ranked in the week 10, AP Top 25 poll!
North Carolina comes into the rematch with Georgia Tech a record of 11-4 while they’re 3-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and is fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because they won their previous game over Virginia 74-58 in Chapel Hill
In North Carolina’s 74-58 win over Virginia Armando Bacot had career highs of 29 points and 22 reboundsme over Virginia a week ago today in Chapel Hill. In North Carolina’s 74-58 win over Virginia Bacot was 12-of-18 shooting and became only the second Tar Heel to collect 20 rebounds in the Dean E. Smith Center. Sean May did it three times. Bacot, who came into the game second in the nation with 10 double-doubles, posted his seventh in a row.
Brady Manek made five 3-pointers and added 19 points and five assists for the Tar Heels (11-4, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who remained perfect at home this season with eight wins while bouncing back from a 78-73 loss to Notre Dame on Wednesday. Caleb
Love had 16 points with four 3-pointers and also had five assists. Two Armando Bacot baskets and 3-pointers from Love and Manek put North Carolina up by double figures for good midway through the second half. A 10-0 run with Manek hitting two more 3-pointers gave the Tar Heels their largest lead — 25 points — with 3 1/2 minutes left.
North Carolina took the lead for good five minutes into the game on a Armando Bacot bucket but only led by six, 31-25, at halftime.
“according to an article on goheels.com”
Georgia Tech comes into the rematch with North Carolina with a record of 7-8 while they’re 1-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and thirteenth in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because Georgia Tech knocked Boston College 81-76 in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts on Wednesday. In Georgia Tech’s 81-76 win over Boston College Georgia Tech Sophomore guard Tristan Maxwell knocked down seven three-point field goals and scored 22 points, leading four Yellow Jackets in double figures to lead Georgia Tech to a 81-76 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball win over Boston College Wednesday night.
Maxwell, playing in just his fourth college game, hit two of his threes in the final 3:35 as the Jackets (7-8, 1-4 ACC) rallied from a 72-68 deficit and capture their first conference win of the season.
The sophomore from Huntersville, N.C., had scored just nine points and had not hit a three-point field goal in three career games prior to Wednesday night. In 26 minutes, nearly matching his career total, he went 7-for-11 from distance.
Tech hit 11 threes in the game (in 25 attempts), a high for an ACC game this season and one short of the 12 the Jackets hit against Lamar in the season’s third game. The Yellow Jackets finished the game at 50.9 percent overall from the floor, their highest clip since they hit 56.5 percent against Charleston Southern on Nov. 22.
Tech and the Eagles (6-8, 1-3 ACC) were tied at the 17:27 mark before Tech went on a 12-0 run over 2:37 to jump out to a 54-42 lead. Boston College matched that run with a 17-3 run take a 72-68 lead at the 3:35 mark before the Jackets closed the game with a 13-4 spurt.
Deivon Smith hit three free throws and a layup during the closing stretch along with Maxwell’s two three-pointers, and Michael Devoe added a pair of free throws.
Georgia Tech had four player in double figures for the game. Jordan Usher scored 14 points with five rebounds and four assists before fouling out, Michael Devoe pitched in 13 points with nine rebounds and freshman Deebo Coleman added 11. Smith finished with nine points, five rebounds and three assists.
Boston College was led by Quinten Post who scored 24 points with nine rebounds, while Brevin Galloway connected n four three-point shots and scored 18.
“according to an article on ramblinwreck.com”
Tip off is set for 8:00pm from the Dean E. Smith Center!
The game is going to be televised on ACC Network!