GAME 15: WAKE FOREST
• Carolina begins the 2023 portion of the schedule by hosting Wake Forest on Wednesday, January 3, at 9 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 9-5 overall, 1-2 in the ACC after a 76-74 loss at Pittsburgh on December 30. Armando Bacot led UNC with 22 points and 13 rebounds, but Jamarious Burton scored 31 and Blake Hinson added 16, including a go-ahead three-pointer with 1:28 to play.
• Carolina led by six at the break and by nine with just under 12 minutes to play, but shot just 33% from the floor in the second half, including 1 of 9 from three-point range.
• Bacot leads the ACC in scoring, rebouding and offensive rebounding and is fifth in field goal percentage. Last season, the Richmond, Va., native became the first Tar Heel ever to lead UNC in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocked shots in consecutive seasons, and he is on pace to accomplish that again this season.
• UNC went 29-12 in the calendar year 2022.
• The loss at Pittsburgh snapped a four-game winning streak by the Tar Heels.
• Wake Forest is 10-4, 2-1 in the ACC. The Demon Deacons have won two straight, home wins over Duke (81-70) and Virginia Tech (77-75).
• The Tar Heels dropped out of the Associated Press poll this week. UNC had climbed back into the poll at No. 25 on December 26 after being unranked in the previous three polls.
UNC-WAKE FOREST SERIES
• Carolina is 163-68 all-time vs. Wake Forest, including 8-2 in the last 10 games.
• The Tar Heels are 79-18 against the Deacs in Chapel Hill, including 24-5 in the Smith Center.
• Wake Forest beat the Tar Heels, 98-76, in Winston-Salem on 1/22/2022, in the only matchup last season.
• The Tar Heels have won the last seven games against Wake Forest in Chapel Hill. Carolina defeated the Demon Deacons, 80-73 in front of a limited number of fans (due to the pandemic) on 1/20/2021 in the most recent game between the teams in Chapel Hill.
• Freshman Caleb Love scored 20 points, his first career 20-point game. Armando Bacot had 18 points, RJ Davis added 13 and Leaky Black had eight assists.
• Wake Forest made 13 threes and got 27 points from both Isaiah Muciius and Daivien Williamson.
LAST YEAR’S GAME
WAKE FOREST 98, UNC 76
Jan. 22, 2022, in Winston-Salem
• The 98 points were the Deacons’ most in a regulation length game vs. the Tar Heels since Wake…
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