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No. 20 North Carolina (4-3) vs #10 Alabama (6-2)
Chapel Hill – Dean E. Smith Center
Wednesday, Dec. 4 – 7:15 pm
TV: ESPN (Mute ‘em)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network
UNC Tar Heels:
Cadeau #3 P = 30, E = 90, I = 90, X = 60
Davis #4 P = 95, E = 20, I = 25, X = 60
Trimble #7 P = 0, E = 70, I = 20, X = 10
Withers #24 P = 70, E = 50, I = 90, X = 80
Washington #13 P = 80, E = 90, I = 70, X = 75
Tyson #5 P = 45, E = 75, I = 40, X = 40
Jackson #11 P = 55, E = 95, I = 95, X = 75
Powell #9 P = 45, E = 45, I = 40, X = 40
Lubin #22 P = 90, E = 95, I = 40, X = 65
Claude #0 P = 25, E = 5 I = 5, X = 15
Brown #2 P = 45, E = 50, I = 10, X = 25
Coach Davis Wisdom = 10
Alabama Crimson Tide
4 Grant Nelson P = 0, E = 95, I = 75, X = 35
11 Cliff Omoruyl P = 20, E = 40, I = 100, X = 60
0 LaBaron Philon P = 95, E = 100, I = 15, X = 50
1 Mark Sears P = 20, E = 100, I = 100, X = 60
3 Latrell Wrightsell P = 80, E = 90, I = 25, X = 50
35 Derrion Reed P = 5, E = 40, I = 80, X = 40
10 Mouhamad Dioubate P = 40, E = 10, I = 95, X = 65
15 Jarin Stevenson P = 25, E = 10, I = 5, X = 15
2 Aden Holloway P = 65, E = 60, I = 60, X 60
Coach Oats Wisdom = 65
Look-In: This Red Tide washes into Chapel Hill with an 83-81 Las Vegas loss to Oregon last Saturday on them and no-doubt Coach Nate Oats will have his squad foaming. A coach for these times, the a-ethical Oats will no doubt have his spies and spotters positioned in the Dean E. Smith Center, ironically a building dedicated to a timeless ethicist. The juxtaposition is classic but you won’t hear much about it - because, well, it’s 2024. Alabama also brings their #10 ranking to town led by cocky Mark Sears (#1, 16 ppg, 3.6 apg, 6-1) and 6-11 Euro-Big Stylewise frontiersman Grant Nelson (#4, 13.5, 7.8). Complementing Bama are 6-4 LaBaron Philon (10.5, 4, 4), #3 Latrell Wrightsell (6-3, 11.5), and once-coveted portal center Cliff Omoruyl (#11, 6-11, 8 ppg, 6 rpg). Two born-in-North Carolinians come off the bench: North Chathamite Jarin Stevenson (6-11, 5 ppg, 4 rpg) and Charlotte-born 6-1 Aden Holloway (#2, 9 ppg, 2 apg). 6-8 Derrion Reid (6.6 ppg, 3 rpg) and 6-7 Mouhamad Dioubate (6.6 ppg) bring heft to Oats’ gameplan as well. Of those players Sears, Philon, Wrightsell, and Dioubate have troubling ritmos.
Frontcourt: Washington has risen out of his island funk and Withers and Luben join him. Brown can play. Claude is low.
Wings: Ian Jackson is a clever Nan of fire and Drake Powell is even up. Tyson has good ‘want to.’
Guards: A smart Cadeau huts the Smith Center floor alongside an athletic R.J. Davis. Thimble’s Physicality is at zero but he is fired up.
Overall: A heady Cadeau back home is good news and a calm, athletic Davis locked in with a determined Trimble just might win the perimeter. The Tide will throw bodies in the paint (Stevenson, Reid, Omoruyl) while mobile Big Grant Nelson will play it smart from the high post and out. Sears is their star because he’s wiley but Wrightsell is also clever and has been around the block. Bama gas multiple ways of attacking and they’ll go at the Carolina interior men - Washington, Withers, and Luben look up to the task.
Watch Ian Jackson shine while Drake Powell takes possession of North Chatham.
I don’t like Nate Oats. His ethics-absent win-at-all-costs vision rubs me the wrong way. I’m no fan of The SEC either. These sentiments are not of a rivalry nature but rather those of polarized opposites.
Carolina by 5.
