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9th Ranked North Carolina Tipped Off 2024-2025 Season With 90-76 Win Over Elon Monday Night In Chapel Hill As RJ Davis Scored 24 Points

9th ranked North Carolina tipped off 2024-2025 season with 90-76 win over Elon Monday night in Chapel Hill as RJ Davis scored 24 points.

As 9th ranked North Carolina tipped off 2024-2025 season with 90-76 win over Elon Monday night in Chapel Hill RJ Davis was 7-19 on field goals 3-11 on 3 pointers to go along with 7 rebounds, 7 assists..

According to espn app

Following 9th ranked North Carolina tipping off 2024-2025 season with 90-76 win over Elon Monday following RJ Davis scoring 24 points North Carolina Head Coach Hubert Davis had this to say!

This is a great learning experience for us because people are going to play zone, we’re going to play against teams that have tremendous size, we’re going to have to rebound [and] dominate points in the paint,”

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Head Coach Hubert Davis wasn’t the only Davis to share his thoughts as North Carolina leading scorer R.J Davis who was 7-19 on field goals 3-11 on 3 pointers to go along with 7 rebounds, 7 assists had this to say!

“I think we have a lot to work on, especially defense,” he said, later adding. “They scored off our mistakes a lot. We weren’t in the right spots. We missed a couple switches on the defensive end. Little stuff like that.”

According to Shelby Swanson News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article295001294.html

North Carolina is going to prepare to play top ranked Kansas in Lawrence Kansas!

Tip off is set for 7:00pm from Allen Field House!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN2 with Jay Bilas, Dan Shulman commentating!

Jay Bilas is a former Duke center who played for former Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski from 1982 -1986 playing 127 games averaging 8.4 points 5.4 rebounds, 0.4 assists before drafted 5th round of 1986 15th pick 108th pick overall in the 1986 NBA Draft. Though, Jay Bilas would never set foot on the hardwood for Dallas because he instead he would play professionally in Italy where he was among the leagues top scores in 1987-1988 seasons before playing professionally in Spain for part of the 1989 season before returning to Duke in 1990 to serve as an assistant coach on Krzyzewski’s staff, while also earning his law degree from Duke Law School. While Bilas was an assistant coach under Krzyzewski, the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Championship Gem three times, winning back-to-back National Championships in 1991 and 1992.

According to https://espnpressroom.com/us/bios/bilas_jay/