UNC 93, LA SALLE 67
DECEMBER 14, 2024
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.

UNC Scoring Leader: Cade Tyson 23
UNC Rebound Leader: Seth Trimble 8
UNC Assist Leader: Elliot Cadeau 7
Team Records: UNC 6-4, La Salle 6-5

• Carolina shot at least 50% from the floor in both halves for the third time this season (also did so against American and Michigan State).
• Carolina shot 53.7% overall from the floor, including 72.2% from two-point range (26 for 36).
• Carolina’s bench scored a season-high 49 points, outscoring the starters (49-44) on a non-senior night for the first time since playing Marquette on 2/24/2021.
• UNC shot 47.8% (11 for 23) from the free throw line, the lowest percentage in Hubert Davis’ four seasons as head coach and the lowest since Carolina shot 38.9% from the line against Louisville on 2/20/2021.
• Both teams shot below 50% from the free throw line for the first time since UNC (45.5%) and Notre Dame (41.7%) on 3/3/2014.
• Carolina scored 90 or more points for the fifth time this season. UNC currently leads the ACC in scoring.
• UNC improved to 25-2 when scoring at least 90 points under head coach Hubert Davis.

• Carolina out-scored the Explorers, 50-20, in the paint. The 30-point margin was the second largest in paint points this season (56-16 vs. American). It was the third time this season UNC has scored 50 or more paint points (56 vs. American and 50 vs. Alabama).
• The Tar Heels had 22 assists and 11 turnovers, its best assist/turnover ratio since the win at Hawai’i (16/5). It was the third time this season UNC had at least a 2:1 radtio (also 22/6 vs. Elon).
• UNC went on a 16-0 run in the first half, its largest run of the season. It was sixth game this season in which the Tar Heels had a double-digit scoring run.
• Carolina held La Salle to 35.6% from the field, the fourth time this season UNC held the opponent below 40%. UNC is 4-0 when the opponents shoot under 40%.
UNC scored at least 40 points in the first half for the first time since scoring 41 at Hawai’i on November 22. UNC is 4-0 this season when scoring at least 40 points in the first half.

• UNC led by 17 points at halftime, its largest halftime lead this season.
• La Salle led, 8-2, before Carolina went on a 20-2 run.
• Cade Tyson led the Tar Heels with a season-high 23 points, becoming the seventh Tar Heel to lead the team in scoring this season. Tyson’s only other double-figure scoring game this year was November 15, when he scored 11 vs. American.
• Tyson made five three-pointers, the eighth time he made five or more threes in his career (first time at UNC, seven times in two seasons at Belmont). He had made four 3FGs in his first nine games as a Tar Heel.
• It was Tyson’s first 20-point game as a Tar Heel and the 12th in his career.
• RJ Davis hit multiple three-pointers for the sixth time this season. UNC is 4-1 when Davis hits multiple threes. He has 293 career 3FGs, seven shy of passing Marcus Paige for the most ever by a Tar Heel. Davis and Ian Jackson are the only Tar Heels who have made at least one three-pointer in every game this season.

• Davis scored 13 points; he is the only Tar Heel this season to score in double figures in every game.
• Ian Jackson was a team-high plus 30. It was the third-highest plus/minus by a Tar Heel this season (Elliot Cadeau was plus 38 and Tyson was plus 37 against American).
• Cadeau had a game-high seven assists. It was the fourth time this season and the ninth time in his career he had at least seven in a game.
Seth Trimble led the Tar Heels with eight rebounds. It was the second time he led the Tar Heels in rebounds this year.
• Ven-Allen Lubin tied his season high with 10 points.
• Freshman James Brown scored a season-high six points.
• UNC is 3-1 all-time against La Salle, including 2-0 in Chapel Hill.
• UNC is 231-18 all-time against non-ACC opponents in the Smith Center.


Next Game: Tuesday, December 17 vs. Florida (Jumpman Invitational, Spectrum Center, Charlotte, N.C.) 7 p.m., ESPN

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Odem has blown up since the end of his junior season, as a two-way talent. He opened his recruitment amid the rise, but says Carolina remains an option especially after the news.

"I feel like he’s going to do some big things there!" Odem told Rivals.

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Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest

La Salle Explorers​

6-4, 1-1 away
The CW Network
12/14
4:00 PM


Explorers
6-4, 1-1 away
The CW Network
12/14
4:00 PM

North Carolina Tar Heels​

5-4, 3-1 home


NCAA College Basketball Odds, Betting Lines & Point Spreads




Contest Rules:

Contest #1: Total points for entire season
Contest #2: Reset: Total points after game #15
Contest #3: Final Four Pool Bracket (Top 64 players)
Contest #4 Grand Prize: Total points ACC and NCAA tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)
Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest


Bullet Points!
For the first 20 games, three (3) Bullet points will automatically be added for any player that forgets to post a prediction for a game. Thus, as long as a player posts a prediction for at least one game, he will receive 3 points for all games that he fails to make a prediction. This is applicable even if he does not make his first prediction until the 20th game of the season. In this case, he will still get 60 points for the first 20 games that he failed to make a prediction for. Bullet Points will be automatically added. You do not have to request them.


Points Awarded Per Game
36 pts--Max points, Quadruple points game
27 pts--Max points, Triple points game
18 pts--Double points game
12 pts--Partial points, Quadruple points game
9 pts--Partial points, Triple points game
6 pts--Partial points, Double points game
3 pts--automatic points for any game missed (you failed to make a prediction) in first 20 games


Contest #1 Prizes
1st Place - 1-Year Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
2nd Place - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
3rd Place - 3-Month Subscription to Premium
4th Place-- 3-Month Subscription to Premium

Contest #2 Prizes
1st Place - 1-Year Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
2nd Place - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
3rd Place - 3-Month Subscription to Premium
4th Place-- 3- month Subscription to Premium

Contest #3 Prize - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize

Grand Prize (Contest #4)
Post Season Contest
Top 15 players in Contest #1 and # 2
ACC and NCAA Tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)
Prizes: Large Flat Screen TV, Laptop or Tablet (winner option)

Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest

Sadly, we never find out what happened to this woman:

Woman without pants runs from truck at intersection

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...and this will be a bit longer for those who get it.

So... once again we come out flat, but most noticible is that nobody (other than maybe Seth) is playing anywhere near their abilities right now. Bigs aren't looking to score, we don't finish with any consistency, Drake looked lost, RJ is forcing shots and Eliot is forcing passes. Ultimately, it does no good to scapegoat individual players --- as I've tried to explain, the underlying issue here is SCHEME.

- Before I get into that, two 2nd half moments exemplified our struggles: EC hits ahead to RJ in transition wide-open at his favorite Wing 3 spot, and misses pretty badly. Moments later, RJ on a called play (same spot) freezes his man with his patented step-back, but again, clang. I'll bet I wasn't the only one here saying "last year RJ makes that", huh? OK, so reality is RJ is in a bad shooting slump right now --- slumps happen --- but what it should expose is that we shouldn't HAVE to rely on RJ to shoot us out of trouble.

What's getting us in this trouble is scheme. THAT is the catalyst for most of the issues we're (painfully) watching.

- To wit: Since I started keeping specific game notes back in 2014, I create a grid to track our scores by 4 categories:
Fast Break (primary with number advantage or ahead of the defense)
Secondary Break (including iterations and reversals)
Half Court (Freelance or player-called actions on the fly)
Set Plays (Called from bench or OB situations)

- As an example of how things CAN work, during the last Natty season 16-17 there were some games in which there were more points in the Secondary box than any other (all wins, unsurprisingly). Most of those points won't show up in box score "fast break" stats, but it has been the key to our success.

- In stark contrast, today (aside from 4 FTs in late Press Offense, we had 5 --- count'em FIVE --- Secondary points (and 7 vs bama). Folks, that dog ain't gonna hunt. Look, I've already explained exactly how we've f***ed up the Secondary scheme, so I won't revisit it, but it also has a ripple effect by making us start Freelance from a static set vs an unstressed defense.

- That then leads us into the foibles of unsound 5-out offense. Yikes. Unless you're raining in Steph Curry range 3s, 5-out actually creates LESS perimeter space than 4-out, and makes us just too damn EASY to defend. Moreover, there's a reason coaches have long preached "inside-out" --- it's basic applied geometry. The ball has to periodically go inside WITH A PURPOSE. The Big needs to look to score (and not just be a passer), because even if it's not always successful, it STRESSES the defense vertically thus making it difficult to track perimeter motion. Right now, defenders are just anticipating and swarming RJ's cuts without having to look over their shoulders, and they're also anticipating Eliot's PnR dishes. We are easy to scout.

- Our impotency in inside threat also showed up vs their 1-1-3 matchup --- and jeez, can't even flush a perfect lob play. It's not good when our "paint" points are almost all from Guards driving.

- OK, some positives: I still can't believe we out rebounded them. It was definitely a group effort, which it will need to be going forward for sure.

- Starting just after the under-8, we legtimately turned up some defensive intensity and shut them out of FGs for a long stretch. Seth was a terror, and gotta give a shout-out to EC here, who despite apparently fighting a virus, was also key. In particular, when EC was out Stoudamire was having his taller PG iso RJ, but Eliot absolutely stoned him with some damn good footwork.

- Although we missed three front-end FTs, Seth and Ian knocked down the big ones in crunch time. Now, why we were somehow still in 1-and-1 so late is a whole nuther issue, but we'll leave that for another day.

- Finally, bottom line is there's no way this Tech team should lead us during the 2nd half of a game. I mean, they are competitive but their most dangerous shooter transfered to Auburn --- speaking of whom, found out what the ACC knows about the striped treatment at HIS, the sort of home-cooking we can never seem to get --- but I digress. Our issues these days are self-inflicted.

Anyway, we toughed out a win that shouldn't have been so hard, so there's that. And I don't mean to down-play this win --- Lord knows a loss would've been disastorus --- as the guys sucked it up and fought for 8 key minutes down the stretch for the W. The bad news is that right about now, we're Fast Break or "Hoo-Boy", so I've said it before --- December is for adjustments, and we are in dire need of doing just that. The upcoming practices and LaSalle would seem to be the ideal time. I'd rather not wait untiI UF and UCLA. I suppose we shall see...

Some thoughts here:

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Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest

La Salle Explorers​

6-4, 1-1 away
The CW Network
12/14
4:00 PM


Explorers
6-4, 1-1 away
The CW Network
12/14
4:00 PM

North Carolina Tar Heels​

5-4, 3-1 home


NCAA College Basketball Odds, Betting Lines & Point Spreads




Contest Rules:

Contest #1: Total points for entire season
Contest #2: Reset: Total points after game #15
Contest #3: Final Four Pool Bracket (Top 64 players)
Contest #4 Grand Prize: Total points ACC and NCAA tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)
Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest


Bullet Points!
For the first 20 games, three (3) Bullet points will automatically be added for any player that forgets to post a prediction for a game. Thus, as long as a player posts a prediction for at least one game, he will receive 3 points for all games that he fails to make a prediction. This is applicable even if he does not make his first prediction until the 20th game of the season. In this case, he will still get 60 points for the first 20 games that he failed to make a prediction for. Bullet Points will be automatically added. You do not have to request them.


Points Awarded Per Game
36 pts--Max points, Quadruple points game
27 pts--Max points, Triple points game
18 pts--Double points game
12 pts--Partial points, Quadruple points game
9 pts--Partial points, Triple points game
6 pts--Partial points, Double points game
3 pts--automatic points for any game missed (you failed to make a prediction) in first 20 games


Contest #1 Prizes
1st Place - 1-Year Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
2nd Place - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
3rd Place - 3-Month Subscription to Premium
4th Place-- 3-Month Subscription to Premium

Contest #2 Prizes
1st Place - 1-Year Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
2nd Place - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
3rd Place - 3-Month Subscription to Premium
4th Place-- 3- month Subscription to Premium

Contest #3 Prize - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize

Grand Prize (Contest #4)
Post Season Contest
Top 15 players in Contest #1 and # 2
ACC and NCAA Tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)
Prizes: Large Flat Screen TV, Laptop or Tablet (winner option)

Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest

If you haven't seen this....it's well worth the 1.5 hours!

Features his dad and in the end he mentions "coaching in my 70s". I won't spoil it for those that haven't watched....but it was interesting!

It blew me away....he coached the team (in a film session) about their lack of enthusiasm after a good tackle. He is "THAT" detailed.

Another wow moment for me....in Week 16 of the 2009-10 season the patriots were up 35-0 and the win would clinch the division. The defensive players were dancing on the field with the big lead and gave up a TD in 5 plays. He let them (including Junior Seau) have it on the side line - called them "PUNKS".

Watch it! If your like me, you'll continuously have to pinch your self thinking that is the UNC Tar Heels football coach.

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Bryant, Jacob and I are here for today's presser. Already some national media spotted. This a big deal!

Obviously the impact on NIL and the portal should be through the roof, but realistically, how many years do you think he'll coach UNC?
How many wins do you expect in first few seasons?
Does Keenan become a legit football crazed atmosphere?
Do you expect the Heels to be in ACCCG within 2, 3 years?
Contending for a playoff spot?
Impact on other sports, specifically basketball?
Does MJ decide to jump into the fray and help push our NIL where we can be competitive in recruiting and the portal?

A lot to think about now that Carolina has thought so far out of the box, and is making a monumental shift from the usual. What are your thoughts?

Absolutely hate it, hold what ever opinion you want but I will as well hold my own.

NIL is total BS, but oh these kids deserve this, they deserve that, deserve? Look, it was simple, every kid that EVER played college sports prior to NIL knew, this is the deal, you come play for our program but you must be a student, the compensation for your playing for us is you get your scholarship, tuition, books, food, lodging, use of facilities, tutors, academic advisors, a millions of fans cheering your every move. You got the best training for your future career imaginable, at no cost to you, you got NBA connections, you got a great spotlight to show the world your ability and you got a great education that will serve you long after your playing days are done. EVERY single kid that signed to play for a college program not only knew the deal but wanted it badly. Now all that is considered nothing at all, of holding little to no worth at all? The NBA stocked it's rosters with former college players, the NCAA gave them a absolutely free training program, much better than the G league now days, would there even be a NBA with out NCAA players being fed to the NBA?

Now there were things that should have been changed, the scholarships should have included some amount of monthly walking around money, Dean spoke about this constantly and rightfully so. But now we are talking about a kid that plays in high school getting around $4MI to play 1 and only 1 college season next season? I am fine with a kid that wants to monetize his success, if the local car dealer wants to pay a player to do a 30 second spot for his dealership, fine by me, if Nike wants to hand Cooper Flagg a shoe deal go for it but that is far different from college out right buying players to just come play for them. Colleges put you in the perfect place to make sweet cash and you want to charge them for it? Can you imagine a kid just entering Med school and charging the school a MILLION BUCKS just to be a student there? It is happening every day in college sports BUT don't look now because it is as well happening in high school, coming to a middle school near you? Seems like our educational system is really good at teaching one lesson, greed, that everything does and should revolve around money, that there is NOTHING more important than just you? You deserve it, it is your right to claim, there would be no college sports without the players, well how many players would there be without college sports? Give it to them & how dare you ask them to earn it? And we wonder why our county is falling apart?

Oh and the transfer portal, yes sir now that is a wonderful life lesson to teach young men and women, don't worry about making a commitment and then going away from it, I mean how out dated is that "your word is your bond" deal anyway? Why worry about fighting thru adversity when it is so much easier to skip off to a school that is not as competitive where I can guarantee that the spot light is mine and mine alone and I don't have to work as hard. I see a kid like Seth and have some hope, kid that had every right to transfer out but elected to come back even realizing he would likely be playing behind the NCAA pre-season POY in RJ? That kid decided to come back and put in the work, he now is our starting wing at 6'3" with 2 freshman 5 stars and a kid that was considered to be the best jump shooter in the last portal. I would say this kid learned the right lesson that will serve him well thru the rest of his life, not just limited to his playing days, kudos to his parents and Hubert for developing that in him, it is far more important than a jump shot will ever be. .