News and game summaries from a life-long North Carolina Basketball fan(atic)
UNC Stat of the Day:
Evansville 73, UNC 91
This game had a distinct intermission, but it wasn't the usual one you expect at a game. No, it wasn't halftime, but after the record breaking bucket Tyler Hansbrough made in the first half to surpass Phil Ford as the leading scorer in UNC history. Up to that point, we didn't look very good. In fact, Evansville kept the game close. We couldn't make shots from outside and some of our big men (notably Deon Thompson) was having a hard time down low. After Tyler broke the record and there was a brief pause to o
After the little ceremony, it seemed like a collective weight had been lifted off the players and they finally started playing some decent ball. Not great mind you, but much better than pre-record. Speaking of milestones, Danny Green surpassed 1,000 points in his career during the game as well!
You can see from the Game Flow that the game was out of reach with almost 9 minutes to go in the second half:
I thought Danny Green, Ty Lawson and Will Graves had decent nights while Deon and Wayne Ellington struggled. Deon did better as the second half wore on.
Evansville was a scrappy bunch, but we beat them pretty easily in the Four Factors:
