MBB Looks To Rebound At Indiana Wednesday

GAME 7: AT INDIANA
• Carolina plays at No. 10 Indiana in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind.
• Gametime is 9:15 p.m. (ESPN).
• The Tar Heels have lost two straight. UNC beat Portland in the first round of the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland, Ore., on Thanksgiving, then lost, 70-65, to Iowa State on November 25 and 103-101 in four overtimes to Alabama on November 27.
• Caleb Love averaged 23.0 points in the three games in Portland and was named to the PKI all-tournament team.
• The Tar Heels fell 14 spots to No. 15 in this week’s coaches’ poll and 17 spots to No. 18 in the AP poll.
• Carolina has lost consecutive games for the first time since last January at Miami and Wake Forest. UNC last lost three in a row in 2019-20, when it dropped seven straight in ACC play.
• The Indiana game is Carolina’s fourth of five consecutive away from Chapel Hill. UNC opens ACC play at Virginia Tech on Dec. 4.
• The Tar Heels’ next home game isn’t until Dec. 10 vs. Georgia Tech.
• Indiana is the first of three games against Big Ten opponents in the next six games – UNC plays Ohio State Dec. 18 in Madison Square Garden in New York in the CBS Sports Classic and Michigan Dec. 21 in Charlotte in the Jumpman Invitational.

UNC-INDIANA

• UNC is 6-9 all-time vs. Indiana, the third-most games against an opponent whom UNC does not have a winning record.

• The Tar Heels are 2-4 at Indiana, including 2-2 in Assembly Hall.

• IU defeated Carolina, 76-67, on Nov. 30, 2016, in the most recent matchup, which was played in Bloomington. The Tar Heels were No. 3 in the AP poll and were coming off winning the Maui Invitational. UNC went on to win the NCAA championship that season.

• This is the fourth game in the last five between UNC and Indiana that is being played in Bloomington. The other was the 2016 NCAA East Regional Sweet 16 game that UNC won in Philadelphia.

• UNC is 1-3 against the Hoosiers in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The Tar Heels won in Assembly Hall in 2004-05; Indiana won in Chapel Hill in 2001-02 and in Bloomington in 2012-13 and 2016-17.

ACC-BIG TEN CHALLENGE

• Carolina is 11-12 all-time in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, including 1-3 against Indiana.

• The Tar Heels are 3-7 on the road in the Challenge (1-2 in Assembly Hall).

• This is UNC’s fifth game against Indiana in the Challenge, which ties Michigan State for the most games against the Tar Heels in the…