University of North Carolina Athletics
Four Corners: Wrapping Up The Non-Conference Schedule
December 23, 2016 | Men's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL—The Tar Heels are in the midst of a weeklong holiday break after Wednesday night's win over Northern Iowa.
Carolina will return to the Smith Center on Wednesday December 28 against Monmouth in the final non-conference game of the 2016-17 regular season. On to this week's Four Corners:
1. NEWS & NOTES
♦ There was good news on the Theo Pinson injury front:
Monday's CT scan on Pinson's foot showed improvement as hoped. He's expected to return to basketball activities soon (timetable TBD).
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) December 22, 2016
♦ Roy Williams updated Pinson's status on Wednesday night.
2. LAST WEEK
♦ The Tar Heels split a pair of games, losing a 103-100 thriller to Kentucky last Saturday and troucing UNI, 85-42, on Wednesday at home.
♦ There was plenty of reaction from the national college basketball media to the thriller in Las Vegas against the Wildcats. CBS' Matt Norlander praised the efforts of Justin Jackson & Joel Berry in the loss, while Fanrag's Kyle Kensing wondered if the contest was a possible Final Four preview.
♦ ESPN tweeted about the game afterward:
Kentucky 103, UNC 100 Before today, the last top-10 matchup in which both teams scored 100+ in regulation: UNLV-Arkansas 1 vs 2 in 1991. pic.twitter.com/hJ1E1CYN1k
— ESPN College BBall (@ESPNCBB) December 18, 2016
♦ Here's Theo Pinson's postgame tweet:
National Championship is not won in December.... we will come back better from this! Process!
— Theo pinson (@tpinsonn) December 18, 2016
♦ And the postgame stat graphic:
The Tar Heels were led by Justin Jackson behind a new career high 34 pts, but fell just short in the final seconds to the Wildcats#GoHeels pic.twitter.com/F9ulGcNb50
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) December 18, 2016
♦ Carolina bounced back from the Kentucky game by pulling away from UNI in the second half and beating the Panthers, 85-42. A major highlght was this posterizing dunk by Isaiah Hicks:
♦ Adam Lucas wrote about Carolina's proficient passing in the win over UNI. Here are the rest of the highlights from the win:
3. UP NEXT
♦ Carolina will host former Tar Heel King Rice's Monmouth squad on December 28.
4. DON'T MISS IT
♦ The Tar Heels recently went shopping for the Salvation Army for area families:
We recently went shopping for the @SalvationArmyUS!#MerryChristmas & #HappyHolidays pic.twitter.com/HB9nkSbtPi
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) December 22, 2016
♦ The NCAA.com profiled the hot start to Tony Bradley's freshman season.
♦ This in-depth Sports Illustrated feature is on the role meditation played in Joel Berry's success this season.
♦ The latest Carolina Insider podcast with Adam Lucas and Jones Angell looks back at the Kentucky game and more:
♦ Tickets are available for individual Tar Heel home games for the rest of this season.
♦ Ninety-six year-old Bobby Gersten, the oldest living Tar Heel basketball player, is still living life to the fullest:
