9th Ranked North Carolina Lost To 5th Ranked Uconn 87-76 Tuesday In Jimmy V Classic Inside Madison Square Garden Home Of NBA's New York Knicks

9th ranked North Carolina lost to 5th ranked Uconn 87-76 Tuesday in Jimmy V Classic inside Madison Square Garden home of NBA’s New York Knicks.

As 9th ranked North Carolina lost to 5th ranked Uconn 87-76 Tuesday in Jimmy V. Classic inside Madison Square Garden home of NBA’s New York Knicks Harold Ingram was 8-13 on field goals 3-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds, 5 assists , 1 steal, 2 turnovers. Armando Bacot was 4-12 on field goals to go along with 13 rebounds , 5 assists , 1 block, 1 turnover , 13 points. Elliot Cadeau was 3-4 on field goals to go along with 1 rebound, 5 assists , 1 steal , 7 points. R.J. Davis was 8-17 on field goals, 4-8 on 3 pointers to go along 4 rebounds, 1 assists , 1 steal , 1 block, 1 turnover, 26 points. Cormac Ryan was 3-10 on field goals, 0-6 on 3 pointers to go along with 6 points. Seth Trimble was 1-2 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along 4 rebounds, 1 assists, 2 points. Paxson Wojcik was 1-1 on field goals to go along 1 rebound, 2 points.

In North Carolina’s 87-76 loss to Uconn they were out rebounded 33-43.

Following 9th ranked North Carolina’s 87-76 loss to Uconn in Jimmy V. Classic Tuesday inside Madison Square Garden home of NBA’s New York Knicks Armando Bacot who 5-10 from free thrown line had this to say!

“When I was going to get in that bending motion, I was just not really able to bend my knees,”

It was a tough one, but luckily we’ve got 12 days or something like that to prepare for Kentucky, so I’ll be fine.”

Following 9th ranked North Carolina’s 87-76 loss to Uconn North Carolina Head Coach Hubert Davis had this to say about how his team rebounded the basketball!

I just want to be a better rebounding team,“I think going into the game, we were a little bit under plus-seven rebounds. I want to be at least over plus-10 rebounding. Rebounding is the biggest key.”

According to Jadyn Watson -Fisher article on newsobserver.com

North Carolina is now going to prepare to play Kentucky in the CBS Sports Classic at State Farm Arena in Atlanta Georgia on Saturday December 16, 2023.

Tip off is set for 5:30pm from State Farm Arena!

The game is going to be televised on CBS!

Though, who is commentating the game is to be determined!