Paige has missed the Tar Heels’ first six games this season due to a fracture in his right hand, an injury he suffered in practice on November 3rd.
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“I think our defense can play well enough to put us in a position to win”, coach Larry Fedora said simply Monday. With Oklahoma, Alabama, and the Iowa and Michigan St. victor potentially locking up three of the four College Football Playoff spots, the Tar Heels enter with an opportunity to knock the Tigers from contention and shake up playoff committees decision at choosing a fourth team.
The Tar Heels would have to “fit the run well”, Rashad said, and also “cover well”.
While both of those moments were significant, it was the 21-point comeback at Georgia Tech a few weeks later that proved to be the springboard that helped UNC (11-1, 8-0 ACC) turn its hope into belief that something special might be possible.
UNC and Maryland will play each other for the 180th time – but for the first time since Maryland joined the Big Ten.
“I’m not putting really any pressure on myself, ” he said. These two teams have no love for another and though the Tar Heels could look at this game as a tune up for the ACC Championship game, it’s much more to them and their fans. Last season, Britt had a 38.4% field goal percentage and 36.6% three-point field goal percentage.
The North Carolina women’s basketball team used a 7-0 run in the final minute to edge Gonzaga, 67-62, in the final game of the 2015 Naismith Hall of Fame Challenge Sunday.
North Carolina posted 35 points in the first quarter behind the playmaking of senior quarterback Marquise Williams, a 6-foot-2, 225-pounder. As impossible as that seemed last year or the year before or at nearly any time in the program’s history, North Carolina might be a week away, a win away, from an impossible dream.
This game is going to come down to Deshaun Watson cracking the code that is North Carolina’s defense. “They kind of took it to us for sure”. The more pressing issue is how the Terps, who are still learning how to play with one another, will handle the environment. The defensive approach, after UNC built such a significant lead, was to limit the Wolfpack’s long plays and make it crawl its way back into the game one yard at a time. “Guys are coming at you, ‘Hey, you’re going to take easy classes.’ I haven’t taken an easy class since I got here”.
North Carolina’s offense may be able to match Clemson point-for-point, but there’s more pressure on Clemson to perform because of what’s at stake.
“We know what happened a year ago, ” Hood said.
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At its best, the Carolina offense might be the best in the nation.
