North Carolina, Wake Forest Are Matching Up Once During 2023-2024 Regular Season As North Carolina, Wake Forest Are Matching Up Tonight In Chapel Hill
North Carolina, Wake Forest are matching up once during 2023-2024 regular season as North Carolina, Wake Forest are matching tonight in Chapel Hill.
Where?
On the hardwood!
North Carolina was ranked 4th in last weeks poll though that will likely at 12:00pm today because North Carolina comes to the only 2023-2024 regular season match up with Wake Forest with record 15-3 overall 7-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is first in the standings because they’ve won every Atlantic Coast Conference game they’ve played to this point including Saturday’s game on the road at Boston College 76-66 4th ranked North Carolina remained unbeaten in Atlantic Coast Conference play improving to 7-0 Saturday with 76-66 win on the road at Boston College.
As 4th ranked North Carolina remained unbeaten in Atlantic Coast Conference play improving to 7-0 Saturday with 76-66 win at Boston College Saturday Harold Ingram was 4-9 on field goals, 1-3 on 3 pointers to go along with 13 rebounds , 2 assists, 1 steal , 2 blocks , 11 points. Armando Bacot was 3-6 on field goals to go along with 9 rebounds , 1 assists, 1 steal , 10 points. Elliot Cadeau was 3-7 on field goals to go along with 2 rebounds , 5 assists , 8 points. RJ Davis was 4-11 on field goals though, 0-4 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds, 1 assists , 1 steal , 1 block, 16 points . Cormac Ryan was 1-2 on field goals to go along with 3 rebounds , 1 assists, 1 steal , 14 points. James Okonkwo was 1-2 on field goals to go along with 3 rebounds , 1 block, 2 points. Jaelyn Withers was 3-4 on field goals, 1-1 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds, 1 assists , 1 steal, 9 points. Seth Trimble was 2-3 on field goals, 1-2 on 3 pointers to go along 4 rebounds, 1 assists, 1 steal , 6 points.
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Following North Carolina’s 76-66 win at Boston College Armando Bacot who was was 3-6 on field goals to go along with 9 rebounds , 1 assists, 1 steal , 10 points had this to say!
I picked up some stupid fouls. I thought I should have [done] a better job of just being smart and not really bailing them out,” “I thought all game we really bailed out Quentin Post. He’s a great player, but we can’t let him go to the free-throw line that much.”
Following North Carolina’s 76-66 win at Boston College Cormac Ryan who was was 1-2 on field goals to go along with 3 rebounds , 1 assists, 1 steal , 14 points had this to say!
There were a few times we just got caught in a tough position, with our hands in, being a little extra physical or overrunning something,”“We cleaned that up, [were] more disciplined and tried to keep them off the foul line.”
According to Jadyn Watson -Fisher News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article284254908.html
Wake Forest comes into the only match up with North Carolina with record of 13-5 overall 5-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is third in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because beat Louisville 90-65 in Winston-Salem as Efton Reid III was 4-6 on field goals, 1-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block, 11 points. Andrew Carr was 6-12 on field goals , 3-7 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds , 3 points , 18 points. Kevin Miller was 3-7 on field goals. Cameron Hildreth was 3-9 on field goals , 1-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 11 rebounds , 6 assists , 1 steal, 8 points. Hunter Sallis was 7-13 on field goals, 5-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 5 rebounds, 5 assists , 19 points. Zach Keller was 1-3 on field goals to go along with 2 points. Parker Friedrichsen was 3-5 on field goals to go along with 1 assists, 9 points. Damari Monsanto was 4-6 on field goals to go along 3 rebounds, 1 assists , 12 points.
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Following Wake Forest defeating Louisville 90-65 Saturday in Winston -Salem Wake Forest Head Coach Steve Forbes had this to say!
Coming into this game and watching the film of Louisville, I was really impressed with their team. They're getting a lot better, you can't really judge them on what happened in November and December. Mike James and Brandon Huntley-Hatfield are playing at a high level. Trey White was really great today, Skyy Clark is so fast. I've been impressed with Curtis Williams shooting.
Kenny is doing a good job, it's hard in this league to continue to get better. I believe that Louisville has gotten better. Listen, we made 18 threes. It was going to be hard to lose that game. Anytime you make 18 threes you have a great chance to win. It was an unbelievable effort by our team to share the ball and shoot great shots. Those were all pretty darn good shots out of the threes that we made.
If you look at the lessons we learned from the losses on the road. We had to play without fouling. Coming into the game, I believe Louisville led the league in going to the line. They only went 11 times, which was huge because we fouled too much at Florida State and NC State. Limiting turnovers was huge, we only had eight and three or four of those were late in the game. Unbelievable job of taking care of the ball and sharing the ball. We had 20 assists on 31 baskets.
We did a good job defensively. Louisville made 25 twos. That's pretty darn good defense and they made some tough shots. We did an unbelievable job of guarding the three point line. Hunter got us off to a great start, he is playing at a high level. Andrew was great and Cam played great defense with eleven rebounds as well. Efton played solid and that we did a good job of getting the ball inside out. We didn't just shoot a bunch of threes. It was a good effort.
When Damari came in I lost the bet. My bet was that it was going to be an air ball or an air bank. But he splashed it right in my mouth standing right next to me. I don't know what to say, he is a really good shooter. Damari has great size and he can get it off quick on anybody and he has tremendous confidence. I thought he threw a good pass to Parker for a three. Parker played awesome coming off the bench with three threes. I thought it was a pretty darn good team win."
Tip off is set for 7:00pm from Dean E. Smith Center!
The game is going to be televised on ESPN with Dave O’Brien, Cory Alexander commentating!
Cory Alexander was a point guard for Virginia from 1991 -1995 where he played in 85 games averaged 15.1 points , 3.5 rebounds , 4.7 assists per game where he was 1992-1993 All-ACC 1993 All ACC Tourney before being drafted by San Antonio Spurs in the 1st round of 1995 NBA Draft as the 29th overall, pick, selection!