No open practice to fans or us today. Pressers and locker room access, though. So I will post all relevant stuff I can here.

We've got a ton of content coming today. Ready to crush it!

Lol

All notes courtesy of UNC Athletics Communications:

• UNC is 28-7 and No. 1 seed in the West Region.
• The Tar Heels play ninth-seeded Michigan State (20-14) in the second round at Spectrum Center in Charlotte on Saturday, March 23, at 5:30 p.m.
• Carolina defeated Wagner, 90-62, and the Spartans beat Mississippi State, 69-51, to advance.
• RJ Davis scored 17 of his game-high 22 points in the second half, Armando Bacot had 20 points and 15 rebounds and Charlotte native Ja e'Lyn Withers scored a season-high 16 points and added 10 rebounds vs. Wagner to lead Carolina to its 33rd win in 35 games in the round of 64.
• Bacot tied Wake Forest's Tim Duncan and Houston's Hakeem Olajuwon with his seventh consecutive double-double in an NCAA Tournament game. It was his sixth NCAA Tournament game in a row with 15 or more rebounds.
• Bacot became Carolina's second-leading scorer (2,130 points) and tied Morehead State's Kenneth Faried for third in NCAA history with his 86th double-double.
• Davis (2,052) passed Lennie Rosenbluth for fifth in UNC career scoring and passed Justin Jackson, Charlie Scott and Bobby Lewis to move into fourth in points in a season (748) by a Tar Heel.

TAR HEELS IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• This is Carolina’s 53rd NCAA Tournament appearance, second most all-time. The Tar Heels are 132-49 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina has the most wins in NCAA Tournament history (132), most Final Fours (21), second-highest winning percentage (.729), second-most games (181) and third-most NCAA titles (6).
• The Tar Heels won NCAA titles in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017.
• Carolina played in the national championship game six other times (1946, 1968, 1977, 1981, 2016 and 2022).
• This is Carolina’s 18th No. 1 seed, most in NCAA Tournament history. UNC is 64-12 as 1 seed.
• Carolina’s No. 1 seeds include 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2024.
• Carolina advanced to the Final Four as a No. 1 seed 10 times (1982, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017) and won NCAA titles as a No. 1 seed in 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017.
• The Tar Heels advanced to the Final Four out of the West Region in 1981.
• This is the eighth time UNC is playing in the West Region: 1978, 1981 (2 seed), 1986 (3 seed), 1988 (2 seed), 1999 (3 seed), 2015 (4 seed), 2018 (2 seed), 2024 (1 seed).
• Carolina is 24-8 in the round of 32 since the field expanded to 64 (and then 68) teams beginning in 1985.
• The Tar Heels are 13-1 in Charlotte and 35-2 in the state of North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament.

TAR HEELS IN CHARLOTTE
• The Tar Heels are 167-27 all-time in Charlotte.
• That includes a 17-2 record in Spectrum Center from 2006-24.
• The Tar Heels are 13-1 in the NCAA Tournament in Charlotte (1-0 in 1975, 1-0 in 1982, 1-0 in 1984, 2-0 in 1987, 2-0 in 2005, 2-0 in 2008, 2-0 in 2011, 1-1 in 2018 and 1-0 in 2024).
• UNC is 35-2 in NCAA Tournament games in the state of North Carolina: 13-1 in Charlotte, 7-0 in Greensboro, 9-1 in Raleigh and 6-0 in Winston-Salem.

MORE UNC & THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• Carolina is the only team to play in the Final Four and a national championship in nine straight decades (the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s).
• Hubert Davis is the fourth Tar Heel head coach to lead a team to a No. 1 seed (Dean Smith eight times, Roy Williams eight times, Bill Guthridge once).

CAROLINA AND MICHIGAN STATE
• Carolina is 12-4 against Michigan State, including 5-0 in the NCAA Tournament.
• This is the first NCAA Tournament game between the Tar Heels and Spartans since the 2009 national championship, which Carolina won, 89-72, in Detroit on 4/6/2009.
• Against MSU, UNC is 1-0 in the round of 32 (2007 in Winston-Salem),1-0 in the Sweet 16 (1998 in Greensboro), 2-0 in the national semifinals (1957 in Kansas City and 2005 in St. Louis) and 1-0 in the championship game (2009 in Detroit).
• Michigan State beat Carolina, 63-45, in the finals of PK80 in Portland, Ore., on 11/26/2017, in the most recent game between the teams.

5:30, will air on CBS

Sorry this is late posting, but here is the NCAA tournament field as a scatter plot based on Points Per Possession. On the Y-axis is offensive efficiency (0.95+ is the goal, and UP is better). On the X-axis is defensive efficiency (<0.85 us the goal, and LEFT is better).

Prediction Contest Results Through Wagner Game - Contest #4
Check your results!

Gone, gone, gone! The G League Ignite team was 2-18 his past season. OUCH! NIL strikes again folks.

" Between the struggles of the Ignite and the dawning of college basketball’s NIL era, it’s easy to wonder if the NBA has the appetite anymore to pay top prospects to develop in the G League. The Ignite does not have a public commitment from a top prospect in the 2024 class, though five-star Karter Knox has said he’s considering the G League route. Of the current players with the Ignite, only promising 17-year-old Dink Pate has said he intends to return'.
The comments that Silver made during All-Star weekend will only fuel speculation about whether the Ignite continues beyond this season and, if so, in what form.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nbas-g...longer-exist-after-this-season-201858783.html

https://pr.nba.com/nba-g-league-ignite-final-season/

https://pr.nba.com/nba-g-league-ignite-final-season/