University of North Carolina Athletics
Four Corners: Senior Night
March 1, 2017 | Men's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL—The 2016-17 regular season comes to a close this weekend in college basketball, and a Carolina tradition will continue on Saturday night when the Tar Heels host Duke at 8:20 p.m. UNC will honor seniors Nate Britt, Kanler Coker, Isaiah Hicks, Kennedy Meeks and Stilman White on the court with their families prior to the game.
The Tar Heels have clinched at least a tie for the ACC regular season championship and need a win over the Blue Devils to clinch their 21st outright regular season title.
On to this week's Four Corners.
1. NEWS & NOTES
♦ Carolina claimed the top seed in the 2017 ACC Tournament with eight days remaining in the regular season last Saturday.
♦ The Tar Heels will open play in the ACC Tournament at noon on Thursday March 9. Here's a printable ACC Tournament bracket.
♦ ESPN GameDay is returning to the Smith Center for the second time in three weeks for Saturday's contest vs. Duke. Details on attending the live morning show and more will follow on GoHeels.com later this week.
♦ Justin Jackson is one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy, given to the National Player of the Year.
♦ Luke Maye earned a spot on the All-ACC Academic Team for the second consecutive year.
2. LAST WEEK
♦ Carolina won at Pitt last Saturday, a win that helped clinch the top seed in the ACC Tournament. Here's Adam Lucas' take on the win. Here are highlights from GoHeels TV:
Another 20-point outing for Justin Jackson (23 points, 5-11 from deep) to lead the way at Pitt pic.twitter.com/rNNlXGOqHt
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 25, 2017
♦ Two nights later, the Tar Heels stumbled and lost, 53-43, at Virginia. Here, Lucas breaks down the turnover issues that got the night off to a bad start.
3. UP NEXT
♦ As discussed above, the Tar Heels will host Duke on Senior Night on Saturday night in the Smith Center in the regular season finale for both teams.
♦ Carolina has clinched the top seed in the 2017 ACC Tournament in Brooklyn and has a bye to Thursday's quarterfinal round. The Tar Heels will open play at noon on the Thursday March 9 against the winner of the contest between the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds.
4. DON'T MISS IT
♦ Former Tar Heel swingman Rick Fox owns an e-sports franchise and wrote a first-person account for The Players Tribune about the Business of Gaming.
♦ In the latest Carolina Insider podcast, Jones Angell and Adam Lucas recap what went wrong against Virginia on Monday night and look ahead to Duke.
♦ Go behind the scenes at Carolina's Special Olympics Clinic:
♦ Yesterday would have been Dean Smith's 86th birthday. Happy birthday, Coach.
On this date in 1931, Dean Smith was born in Emporia, Kan. #UNCBBall pic.twitter.com/mMLr5YqJN0
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 28, 2017
