ACC Roundup – Heels, Mustangs Win, Stanford And Pitt Fall

In Sunday’s ACC Action, UNC beat Georgetown 81-61, UNLV nipped Stanford 75-74, Hofstra knocked off Pitt 80-73 and SMU survived Texas A&M in overtime, 93-80.

UNC put the Julian Alexander unis away for the Dean Smith era throwback uniforms but didn’t have too much trouble with Georgetown as they did in 1982. It was close at halftime with the Tar Heels up 44-39 but in the end, UNC smothered Georgetown with Caleb Wilson (20 points and 14 rebounds) and Henri Veesaar (18 points and 15 rebounds) inside and a useful three point attack outside (UNC hit 9-28 for 27 points).

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UNC is playing really well right now and that’s without Seth Trimble, who should be back around Christmas or so, which leads to an interesting dilemma: who sits?

Our money is on Jarin Stevenson. He hasn’t been overly productive and Trimble is athletic enough to play forward, or they could move Luka Bogavac up.

Then of course they have to figure out what to do with freshman Derek Dixon, who has really come on lately. Will he supplant Kyan Evans at point?

This leads to our primary criticism of Hubert Davis: he doesn’t seem to have very good people skills, at least not as a coach. It’ll be interesting to see how he handles these looming personnel issues.

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Stanford has been a pleasant surprise so far but they had issues with Josh Pastner’s UNLV team, losing 75-74.

Ebuka Okorie tied the game 74-74 at the line with :14 left, then UNLV’s Kimani Hamilton got to the line himself, with :02 left and hit one. Good enough! Okorie missed a desperation shot and that was that.

Okorie didn’t shoot well (4-16/1-6)but finished with 18 to continue his strong freshman season.

Here’s what Pastner said afterwards: “I’m beyond proud of our young men, to fight, to scrap, to kick, to claw. We won the game through defense. We really guarded at a high level, and that was the bottom line.”

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There’s no sugar coating Pitt’s loss to Hofstra…

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