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North Carolina’s Armando Bacot in league of his own with NCAA tournament performance
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North Carolina ahead Armando Bacot made historical past within the first half of the faculty basketball nationwide championship in opposition to Kansas on Monday evening.
Bacot grew to become the primary participant in males’s basketball historical past to document a double-double in all six video games of a single event. He wrapped the primary half with 12 factors and 10 rebounds because the Tar Heels took a 40-25 lead into the locker room.
David McCormack #33 of the Kansas Jayhawks and Armando Bacot #5 of the North Carolina Tar Heels speak through the first half of the 2022 NCAA Males’s Basketball Match Nationwide Championship recreation at Caesars Superdome on April 04, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Pictures through Getty Pictures)
He completed with 15 factors and 15 rebounds in a detailed 72-69 loss.
Bacot’s dominance helped the Tar Heels get to the place they had been on Monday.
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The No. 8-seeded North Carolina group beat Marquette within the first spherical of the event 95-63. Bacot had 17 factors and 10 rebounds within the recreation. Within the group’s upset win over No. 1 Baylor, Bacot had 15 factors and 16 rebounds.
North Carolina ahead Armando Bacot celebrates after scoring in opposition to Kansas through the first half of a faculty basketball recreation within the finals of the Males’s Ultimate 4 NCAA event, Monday, April 4, 2022, in New Orleans.
(AP Photograph/Brynn Anderson)
It didn’t cease there.
Bacot had 14 factors and 15 rebounds of their Candy 16 win over No. 15 UCLA. Within the group’s dominant efficiency over No. 15 Saint Peter’s, Bacot had 20 factors and 22 rebounds. He placed on one other nice displaying in opposition to Duke within the Ultimate 4 with 11 factors and 21 rebounds within the win.
In the long run, he would additionally tie David Robinson’s document for many double-doubles in a single season with 31. He additionally had 99 complete rebounds within the event, which is second-most in a single tourney in NCAA historical past.
North Carolina ahead Armando Bacot shoots over Kansas ahead David McCormack through the second half of a faculty basketball recreation within the finals of the Males’s Ultimate 4 NCAA event, Monday, April 4, 2022, in New Orleans.
(AP Photograph/David J. Phillip)
Bacot slipped within the closing minute of the sport and appeared to reinjure his proper ankle.