Arkansas wants to wear out opponents.
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It’s halftime in Sacramento where the Rhode Island Rams, the No. 11 seed in the Midwest Region, lead Creighton, 33-26.
Bons Secours Wellness Arena had a crowd that tilted toward UNC fans as the Tar Heels dominated in their first round match-up in the NCAA Tournament.
“I wanted to have confidence that I could get back out there if it was a championship game and just play the rest of the game, I felt like if I needed to stay back out there, I could’ve”. He’s the catalyst for the Tar Heels offense at point guard.
“We don’t want it to be chaotic to where we’re just making turnovers and making bad plays”, UNC point guard Joel Berry II said Saturday, “but if they want to speed us up, I mean, that plays right into our hands”. “I think that’s the first objective”. “So we’ve got to figure out somebody to play”. We want to go fast, but we’ve got to take care of the basketball.
North Carolina’s defense was smothering the entire game, limiting the Tigers to 36-percent shooting from the field.
The Blue Devils (29-7) became the first team to win four games on the way to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament crown last week.
If Arkansas can attack UNC’s weaknesses in the halfcourt, push the pace on the break and protect the paint like it has all season, the Razorbacks could survive an onslaught on the glass and down the Tar Heels.
“I remember Paige taking over in the second half”, Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said of the graduated UNC star who scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half.
“You’ve got pros, they can go get it”.
First Round NCAA Tournament action continues Friday from SC, where the North Carolina Tar Heels open up their Tournament with a match-up against the Texas Southern Tigers. Berry returned to the action briefly. UNC coach Roy Williams said Woods was probably at a five or six on a scale of 1-10 after the early part of the Tar Heels’ schedule but said he is probably up to around an eight health-wise. “But I feel certain he’ll be able to go”.
Jackson was named the ACC Player of the Year, but in the previous four games he was a combined 7-for-31 on 3-point attempts. Friday they doubled Texas Southern on the boards.
Graduate of the University of North Carolina.
The walk-off home run was the first walk-off home run for the Jackets since Arden Pabst’s three-run walk-off shot in the 9-8 win over Albany on February 22, 2015 at Coastal Carolina.
“That’s his decision”, Berry said. “It was tiring, but that’s what it is supposed to be like”. Anderson has finally rekindled that Razorback spirit of old and who better to face than our nemesis of old, North Carolina. “I’m just going in preparing for the game like I’m playing, regardless of what happens”.
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The 2008 final between the teams was 108-77, meaning Friday’s point total against Texas Southern was North Carolina’s most in the NCAAs since that meeting with Arkansas nine years ago.
