University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels To Visit UNCG Tuesday
December 15, 2014 | Men's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL—North Carolina (6-3) will look to bounce back from Saturday's loss at top-ranked Kentucky when it visits UNCG (4-6) on Tuesday night in the Greensboro Coliseum. The Tar Heels will be playing their second consecutive contest away from home.
Tuesday's tipoff is set for just after 7 p.m. The game will be televised nationally by ESPN2. Tom Hart (play-by-play) and Mark Adams (analyst) will have the call.
Carolina will be facing some familiar faces on the UNCG bench. Spartan head coach Wes Miller and assistant Jackie Manuel were teammates on the 2005 NCAA championship Tar Heel team under Roy Williams.
Miller sat out the 2003-04 season (Williams' first as the UNC head coach) as a redshirt after transferring to Carolina in the summer of 2003 from James Madison. He played three seasons in Chapel Hill, winning an NCAA championship in 2005 alongside Sean May, Raymond Felton and the rest of Williams' first national title squad.
Miller finished his UNC career with 342 points in 93 games, hitting 39.7 percent of his three-point attempts (96 of 242). He served as Carolina's team captain as a senior in 2006-07.
Manuel played at Carolina from 2001-05, scoring 785 points (6.2 per game) and earning a spot on the All-ACC Defensive Team in '04 and '05. He also won a national title with the Tar Heels in 2005 as a senior.
Tuesday's game is the second in a three-game road trip this week prior to the holiday break. Carolina players finished fall semester final exams last Friday, then squeezed in a practice in Chapel Hill that afternoon before flying to play at Kentucky on Saturday. After Tuesday's game, UNC will fly to Chicago on Thursday to play a neutral site contest against Ohio State on Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic.
The game will be the second overall meeting between Carolina and UNCG in men's basketball and the second in two years. Last season on Dec. 7, 2013, the Tar Heels beat the Spartans 81-50 in Chapel Hill (see more details below).
Roy Williams is 2-0 against the Spartans, having beaten UNCG last year in the Smith Center and by a 105-66 score on Nov. 22, 2002, while he was the head coach at Kansas.
The Spartans enter Tuesday's game with a record of 4-6 and are coming off an 80-79 road win at East Tennessee State on Saturday.
