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Theo Pinson scored 25 points as No. 12 North Carolina overcame a horrendous start and a double-digit deficit to defeat No. 24 Miami 82-65 in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals Thursday night at the Barclays Center in NY, avenging a loss from last week.
As we approach the final games of Berry’s career, the point guard is still reaching milestones and climbing up big program lists.
For a second straight year, Tobacco Road’s biggest rivals will be played on Flatbush Avenue.
Duke and North Carolina will meet Friday for the 22nd time in the ACC Tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in a rematch of last year’s semifinal won by Duke 93-83. “I just need some treatment, some ice, some rest”, Duval said. “Everybody and their mama is going to be watching the game”, Pinson said. And, going to be ready. A win over North Carolina in Brooklyn would significantly help Miami’s RPI and BPIs and their seed in the NCAA Tournament. Duke leads 13-8, including six wins in a row since North Carolina’s victory in the 1998 championship game. Duke won 93-83 in last season’s semifinals en route to capturing the title.
As a team, Virginia is scoring 67.4 points per game on 46.3% shooting from the field, 38.6% from behind the arc and 75.1% from the foul line this season.
“Defensively, me and Tre [Duval] up top needed to do a little bit better job of trying to keep it out of the middle”, Allen said.
Saturday night, just six days after a season-ending defeat back in Durham, the Tar Heels got revenge and gave the Blue Devils a taste of their own medicine.
The Cardinals answered one final time in the bottom of the eighth scoring the game-winning run without a hit. Theo Pinson, a play-making wing by trade, is their power forward.
The No. 24 Hurricanes (22-8) have won four consecutive games by a total of eight points, including a road victory over the No. 12 Tar Heels on a Ja’Quan Newton last-second 3-point shot on February 27 at Chapel Hill, N.C. But Allen missed a chance to force overtime when he came up short on an off-balance 3-pointer with 5 seconds remaining. North Carolina was the three-seed, but fell to sixth-seeded Clemson in that same round. UNC has played three good halves against Duke and had one really bad one.
The year before it was the Tar Heels who took home the ACC crown.
Williams had turned to five reserves. Syracuse was only able to come within nine points of the Tar Heels.
Backup point guard Seventh Woods snapped the drought for UNC with a three-point play at 12:51.
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“I haven’t seen anything like that”, Williams said of the final 60 seconds. Momentum was carried over from a buzzer-beating layup by Cameron Johnson on a dish from Joel Berry at the end of the first half, which put the Tar Heels ahead 36-31. The Tar Heels made 18 of their 23 free throws (78.3 percent) and had a much better offensive rebounding percentage (37.0 vs. 25.5). But the Tar Heels went cold, and second-seeded Duke went on a 13-0 run, drawing within three on Gray Trent Jr.’s 3 with 50 seconds left.
