“We got a trophy and we got the first-place trophy”.
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With the victory on Monday night UNC advanced to the Hall of Fame Classic’s championship game, where it will play against Kansas State – a 66-42 victor against Missouri – on Tuesday night. The Tar Heels average 7.4 yards per play, which is second only to Baylor among FBS teams.
So will Kansas State, Northwestern coach Chris Collins suggested. Williams has a solid ball club, he offered.
“We’d have probably been pretty happy finishing second to [Coach Mark] Wetmore and Colorado, because they’re awesome”, Fox said.
Paige’s absence was magnified in Saturday’s stunning 71-67 loss at Northern Iowa – a game scheduled as a homecoming for the Iowa native.
Paige, the preseason co-player of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference, has not played in a game since breaking a bone in his right hand during practice on November 3. “We’re a team that couldn’t be top 10 three years ago and now we’re doing this”. Most of the second half, most of the first half it was always high.
This is the last full week of November.
The Tar Heels mounted a late push in the half, drawing a corner with 11 minutes remaining, but Jess Jecko made a huge save after the ball had gotten behind her to keep Carolina off the board.
Williams let his players know his dissatisfaction. “But we don’t have him”.
Sophomore guard Justin Jackson is a player to watch in this one for North Carolina as he got off to a rough start to the season but was able to drop 25 points in their most recent game.
The first three games went well enough. “But I think this game, out of the last month this game is the game we want to go out on because I think we played the best in this game”.
After struggling through three games, Jackson has back-to-back 20 point games. Then came the one at Northern Iowa.
“Northwestern’s got a few guys that can shoot the basketball”, Williams said. Williams said on Monday, again, that he was never all too anxious about Jackson. “But, I mean, I’m shooting the same shot I’ve always shot”. Kaminsky was giving it to UNC inside and outside in that game.
Northwestern 7-footer Alex Olah doesn’t like working outside. But Northwestern ran off nine straight points to cut the lead to 18-17.
A Scottie Lindsey 3-pointer gave the Wildcats their first lead of the game. Northwestern was up 30-27.
The Tar Heels found a way to take a seven-point lead into halftime.
Through four games it really hasn’t happened yet. The Wildcats were outrebounded 39-26 by the bigger, longer Tar Heels. Kennedy Meeks and Brice Johnson have gotten off to nice starts as both guys are averaging more than 14 points, 10 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game.
“We didn’t lose the game”. “I told him, ‘If you’re my biggest worry, we’re in a great situation, ‘” Williams said.
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Collins played at Duke from 1992-96 and served there for 13 seasons as Mike Krzyzewski’s assistant.
