UNC vs Boston College Preview

Following a two-game highway journey, North Carolina will return to the Dean E. Smith Heart on Tuesday evening to host the Boston Faculty Eagles.

The Tar Heels earned an 80-59 victory over Louisville on Saturday and now look to start out one other successful streak earlier than NC State involves city on Saturday.

Boston Faculty enters the mid-week tilt at 8-10 total and 2-5 in ACC play.

The Eagles’ two convention wins are their lone Energy 5 wins this season, as they’re on monitor for his or her fifth consecutive dropping season and their eleventh in 12 years.

Coached by Anthony Grant, Boston Faculty is a workforce that, regardless of the dearth of eye-popping stats, has been in lots of shut video games.

Duke outlasted the Eagles by one level in Chestnut Hill in January seventh, whereas Syracuse secured a come-from-behind win within the remaining ten minutes to knock off Boston Faculty to shut out the New 12 months.

Senior guard Makai Ashton-Langford leads the Eagles in scoring with a median of 12.3 factors per sport.

Quinten Put up, a 7-foot massive man for Boston Faculty, is second on the roster at 10.8 factors per sport, however has appeared in simply 5 video games after lacking the beginning of the season as a result of a foot damage. Put up’s 5.2 rebounds are second on the roster, as ahead T.J. Bickerstaff (6.3 rebounds) is the one different participant to common greater than 5 per contest.

Offensively, the Eagles have struggled to place the ball within the basket, rating 14th within the ACC with 65 factors per sport, solely forward of Louisville. Taking pictures 42.3 % from the ground and simply 28 % from three, they’ll sick afford to fall behind or enable North Carolina to dominate on the glass.

For the Tar Heels, that is all about getting wholesome and constructing back-to-back strong performances.

Boston Faculty isn’t a resume-building win, nevertheless it may put them behind the eight-ball in the event that they fail to return out with a victory. 

When it comes to accidents, Armando Bacot performed by means of an ankle damage he suffered in opposition to Virginia, whereas ahead Pete Nance missed his third consecutive contest in opposition to the Cardinals.

With a 14-point unfold brings the potential for extra bench minutes and regardless of just a few lapses in Charlottesville, the Tar Heel bench has grown over the course of January.

Sophomore D’Marco Dunn recorded a career-high 14 factors and 5 rebounds in Saturday’s victory, tallying double digit minutes for the third consecutive sport.

Jalen Washington and Seth Trimble as soon as once more amassed double-digit minutes on the ground, because the North Carolina rotation featured 10 gamers within the win.

Rebounding is as soon as once more an space that the Tar Heels can exploit in opposition to Boston Faculty with Hubert Davis’ squad averaging 5 extra rebounds per sport and probably the most defensive rebounds within the convention at 29.2 per contest.

North Carolina has received 14 of the final 15 matchups with the Eagles.