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University of North Carolina Athletics
Saturday, March 4
Chapel Hill
6:30 PM
North Carolina
19-12,11-9ACC
57
vs
62
Duke
23-8,14-6ACC
1
2
F
Duke
33
29
62
North Carolina
31
26
57
Team Stats
DU
UNC
FG%
.379
.304
3FG%
.308
.217
FT%
.778
.857
RB
39
39
TO
8
9
STL
6
4
Game Leaders
Pts
17
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
9
Pts
11
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
5
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
2
Players Mentioned
F/C
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/ Men's Basketball
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/ Men's Basketball
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/ Men's BasketballArmando Bacot
Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati
Late Run Pushes Duke Past Men's Basketball, 62-57
March 4, 2023 | Men's Basketball
by Matt Bowers
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Duke closed the game on a 6-0 run in the final 1:38 and held North Carolina without a field goal in the last 4:20, holding off the Tar Heels for a 62-57 win in the regular season finale for both teams at the Smith Center on Saturday night. UNC missed its last seven shots.
Carolina's three-game winning streak came to an end as Duke (23-8, 14-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) swept the season series with UNC (19-12, 11-9) for the first time since 2019-20.
Blue Devil freshman Kyle Filipowski led all players with 22 points and 13 rebounds.
Armando Bacot tallied 17 points and 11 rebounds for his 19th double-double this season and the UNC-record 68th time in his career. He tied NC State's Ronnie Shavlik for third in ACC history with 68 double-doubles, trailing only Wake Forest's Tim Duncan (87) and Virginia's Ralph Sampson (84). Bacot scored just one field goal in the second half.
RJ Davis also scored 17 for UNC to go with six assists and three rebounds. Leaky Black had nine points and eight boards but shot 3 for 16 from the floor. Caleb Love had 11 points, six rebounds and three assists despite shooting 3 for 12 overall and 0 for 6 from three-point range.
"Obviously, that was a big win for our team," said Duke coach Jon Scheyer. "We felt like we were going to see their best shots now, even with what they've gone through, and we knew they were going to be ready to play. I thought we matched their physicality to start. Some of our players made big-time winning plays down the stretch."
It was the final home game for five Tar Heels, a group that includes Bacot, Black, Justin McKoy, Pete Nance and Jackson Watkins.
Black played in his 153rd game in five seasons, breaking the UNC career record set by Deon Thompson from 2006-10.
Duke limited Carolina to a season-low 30.4 percent shooting as a team, including 5 of 23 three-pointers (21.7 percent). The Blue Devils didn't shoot much better at 37.9 percent, but they shot 39.3 percent in the second half to UNC's 26.7 percent after the break (its worst second-half shooting performance of the season).
"I thought we had wide open looks from three that we didn't make, but more importantly I thought we had layups that we missed," Tar Heel head coach Hubert Davis said afterward. "We missed a lot of shots around the basket...I felt like we had opportunities around the rim to be able to convert, and we just weren't able to do it."
Carolina made a season-low 17 field goals, and its 57 points tied the season-low 57 it scored at Duke on February 4. This is the first time since 2010 the Tar Heels scored fewer than 60 points in consecutive games against the Blue Devils.
When asked about the mood in the locker room postgame, junior guard RJ Davis said, "It's definitely low right now just because of the type of game it was...We gotta just go into that ACC Tournament with a clear mindset, 0-0 for us record-wise. And just play ball, play together."
UNC will return to action on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the second round of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro. The seventh-seeded Tar Heels will play the winner of Tuesday's tilt between No. 10 seed Boston College and No. 15 seed Louisville.
"I am not adopting the narrative that we need to win four games [to earn an NCAA Tournament bid]," Hubert Davis said. "My focus is on Wednesday. I think it is important to focus on what is real and ahead of us. That is a game at 7 o'clock on Wednesday and that is where my focus is. I feel good about our team. I told them in the locker room that even though I was very sad, that I wasn't done at all in terms of my confidence in what kind of team that this could become. My confidence in this team is not going to waver at all."
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Duke closed the game on a 6-0 run in the final 1:38 and held North Carolina without a field goal in the last 4:20, holding off the Tar Heels for a 62-57 win in the regular season finale for both teams at the Smith Center on Saturday night. UNC missed its last seven shots.
Carolina's three-game winning streak came to an end as Duke (23-8, 14-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) swept the season series with UNC (19-12, 11-9) for the first time since 2019-20.
Blue Devil freshman Kyle Filipowski led all players with 22 points and 13 rebounds.
Armando Bacot tallied 17 points and 11 rebounds for his 19th double-double this season and the UNC-record 68th time in his career. He tied NC State's Ronnie Shavlik for third in ACC history with 68 double-doubles, trailing only Wake Forest's Tim Duncan (87) and Virginia's Ralph Sampson (84). Bacot scored just one field goal in the second half.
RJ Davis also scored 17 for UNC to go with six assists and three rebounds. Leaky Black had nine points and eight boards but shot 3 for 16 from the floor. Caleb Love had 11 points, six rebounds and three assists despite shooting 3 for 12 overall and 0 for 6 from three-point range.
"Obviously, that was a big win for our team," said Duke coach Jon Scheyer. "We felt like we were going to see their best shots now, even with what they've gone through, and we knew they were going to be ready to play. I thought we matched their physicality to start. Some of our players made big-time winning plays down the stretch."
It was the final home game for five Tar Heels, a group that includes Bacot, Black, Justin McKoy, Pete Nance and Jackson Watkins.
Black played in his 153rd game in five seasons, breaking the UNC career record set by Deon Thompson from 2006-10.
Duke limited Carolina to a season-low 30.4 percent shooting as a team, including 5 of 23 three-pointers (21.7 percent). The Blue Devils didn't shoot much better at 37.9 percent, but they shot 39.3 percent in the second half to UNC's 26.7 percent after the break (its worst second-half shooting performance of the season).
"I thought we had wide open looks from three that we didn't make, but more importantly I thought we had layups that we missed," Tar Heel head coach Hubert Davis said afterward. "We missed a lot of shots around the basket...I felt like we had opportunities around the rim to be able to convert, and we just weren't able to do it."
Carolina made a season-low 17 field goals, and its 57 points tied the season-low 57 it scored at Duke on February 4. This is the first time since 2010 the Tar Heels scored fewer than 60 points in consecutive games against the Blue Devils.
When asked about the mood in the locker room postgame, junior guard RJ Davis said, "It's definitely low right now just because of the type of game it was...We gotta just go into that ACC Tournament with a clear mindset, 0-0 for us record-wise. And just play ball, play together."
UNC will return to action on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the second round of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro. The seventh-seeded Tar Heels will play the winner of Tuesday's tilt between No. 10 seed Boston College and No. 15 seed Louisville.
"I am not adopting the narrative that we need to win four games [to earn an NCAA Tournament bid]," Hubert Davis said. "My focus is on Wednesday. I think it is important to focus on what is real and ahead of us. That is a game at 7 o'clock on Wednesday and that is where my focus is. I feel good about our team. I told them in the locker room that even though I was very sad, that I wasn't done at all in terms of my confidence in what kind of team that this could become. My confidence in this team is not going to waver at all."
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