UNC Tar Heels Basketball Team Win an Ugly Game Against the Eagles

by Derrick Clyburn

The North Carolina basketball team has played three games in five days and it showed tonight against Boston College. They couldn’t buy a basket and shot the worst field goal percentage in North Carolina Basketball History at 29.1%.

The Tar Heels found a way to scrap and scape for a victory. Their defense was what won the game for them. Both Armando Bacot and Leaky Black had three blocked shots. Caleb Love led all scorers with 16 points.

UNC Game Stats

1st     2nd     TOT

North Carolina 33      25      58

Boston College 31      16      47

North Carolina

STARTERS	MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
A. Bacot F	—	1-10	0-0	4-6	7	11	18	0	0	3	0	2	6
B. Manek F	—	2-8	1-4	2-2	0	6	6	0	1	1	3	2	7
R.J. Davis G	—	4-9	1-5	4-4	0	7	7	0	0	0	3	3	13
C. Love G	—	5-17	2-4	4-6	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	2	16
L. Black G	—	2-3	1-1	3-4	2	2	4	5	0	3	0	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
J. McKoy F	—	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
P. Johnson G	—	1-2	0-1	0-0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
K. Walton G	—	1-4	1-2	3-3	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	6
TEAM		16-55	6-17	20-25	12	32	44	7	3	7	8	11	58
		29.1%	35.3%	80.0%

Boston College

STARTERS	MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
T.J. Bickerstaff F	—	3-10	1-3	0-0	3	14	17	1	0	0	0	3	7
J. Karnik C	—	4-8	0-0	0-0	1	2	3	1	0	0	3	4	8
J. Zackery G	—	3-11	0-3	0-2	1	2	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
D. Langford Jr. G	—	4-8	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	8
M. Ashton-Langford G	—	1-7	0-2	2-2	0	5	5	1	0	0	2	3	4
BENCH	MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Q. Post F	—	4-8	0-2	2-2	2	5	7	1	0	1	0	3	10
K. Jones G	—	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B. Galloway G	—	1-7	0-4	2-2	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	4
TEAM		20-60	1-16	6-8	8	30	38	5	4	2	9	19	47
		33.3%	6.3%	75.0%

UNC Bright Spots

Caleb Love had 16 points, 2 assists, and 1 rebound.

R.J. Davis had 13 points and 7 rebounds.

Armando Bacot had 6 points, 18 rebounds, and 3 blocks.

Leaky Black had 8 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 blocks.

Needs Work

The Tar Heels need to continue to work on slowing down the dribble drives and they need to finish stronger around the basket. They have missed close to 35 layups in the last three games which totally unacceptable.

Coach Davis is going to have to find a way to adjust to the defensive schemes that opponents are using to take Bacot out of the game offensively. Armando is constantly getting double and triple-teamed.

Final Observations

North Carolina is doing what they have to do no matter how ugly it has been. A win is a win and they are keeping pace as an upper-echelon team with only one game back from first place.

They need to get their offensive prowess back and continue to grind out wins. UNC has 5 of their next 8 games at home where they are now 10-0 for the season. Next up NC State Saturday at 2 pm.