North Carolina Tar Heels vs Auburn Tigers

MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP - MIDWEST REGION - SWEET 16

29-9

Final

	1	2	T
Auburn AUB	41	56	97
North Carolina UNC	39	41	80

North Carolina Tar HeelsNorth CarolinaUNC

29-7

Auburn Tigers

starters
Chuma OkekeC. Okeke#5
Anfernee McLemoreA. McLemore#24
Jared HarperJ. Harper#1
Bryce BrownB. Brown#2
Malik DunbarM. Dunbar#4
bench
Myles ParkerM. Parker#20
Danjel PurifoyD. Purifoy#3
Cole BlackstockC. Blackstock#41
Horace SpencerH. Spencer#0
Austin WileyA. Wiley#50
J'Von McCormickJ. McCormick#12
Will MacoyW. Macoy#22
Samir DoughtyS. Doughty#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	20	8-11	3-5	1-3	11	2	2	2	1	4	7	0
19	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	4	0	0	0	1	0	4	2
25	9	3-8	1-5	2-2	1	11	2	0	0	0	1	4
32	12	3-7	2-6	4-5	4	2	1	2	0	0	4	0
23	13	5-10	3-7	0-0	4	1	1	0	0	2	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	12	4-6	4-6	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
14	4	2-3	0-0	0-2	2	0	0	1	3	0	2	3
6	1	0-0	0-0	1-4	5	0	0	0	1	2	3	1
21	10	5-11	0-1	0-1	2	2	1	2	0	1	1	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	10	4-6	2-3	0-0	1	2	2	1	0	0	1	1
	97	36-66	17-37	8-17	36	21	11	8	6	10	26	17
		55%	46%	47%

North Carolina Tar Heels

starters
Garrison BrooksG. Brooks#15
Luke MayeL. Maye#32
Coby WhiteC. White#2
Kenny WilliamsK. Williams#24
Cameron JohnsonC. Johnson#13
bench
Nassir LittleN. Little#5
Sterling ManleyS. Manley#21
Leaky BlackL. Black#1
K.J. SmithK.J. Smith#30
Andrew PlatekA. Platek#3
Seventh WoodsS. Woods#0
Brandon RobinsonB. Robinson#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	6	2-2	0-0	2-2	4	1	0	0	1	2	2	3
28	13	6-14	1-4	0-1	7	3	3	1	0	3	4	2
31	15	4-15	0-7	7-8	3	4	2	2	0	1	2	2
34	10	4-6	2-3	0-0	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	1
29	15	4-11	2-7	5-5	5	0	1	3	1	0	5	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	4	2-7	0-2	0-1	3	0	2	0	0	1	2	1
1	5	2-2	0-0	1-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
3	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
8	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	1
16	9	3-6	2-4	1-2	4	3	0	0	0	3	1	1
	80	28-65	7-28	17-22	40	16	14	7	2	14	26	16
		43%	25%	77%

Pearl: Tigers have 3 more wins to go

2:21

Brown: We wanted to win for Okeke

1:32

Game Information

Kansas City, MO

Referee:Gerry Pollard

Referee:Mike Reed

Referee:Michael Stephens

NCAA Division I

Southeastern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Florida	16-2	-	27-8
Arkansas	13-5	3	28-9
Alabama	13-5	3	25-10
Vanderbilt	11-7	5	27-9
Tennessee	11-7	5	25-12
Texas A&M	11-7	5	22-12
Georgia	10-8	6	22-11
Kentucky	10-8	6	22-14
Missouri	10-8	6	20-13
Texas	9-9	7	21-15
Auburn	7-11	9	22-16
Oklahoma	7-11	9	21-16
Mississippi State	5-13	11	13-19
Ole Miss	4-14	12	15-20
South Carolina	4-14	12	13-19
LSU	3-15	13	15-17

Atlantic Coast Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Duke	17-1	-	35-3
Virginia	15-3	2	30-6
Miami	13-5	4	26-9
North Carolina	12-6	5	24-9
Clemson	12-6	5	24-11
Louisville	11-7	6	24-11
NC State	10-8	7	20-14
Florida State	10-8	7	18-15
California	9-9	8	22-12
Stanford	9-9	8	20-13
Virginia Tech	8-10	9	19-13
SMU	8-10	9	20-14
Wake Forest	7-11	10	18-17
Syracuse	6-12	11	15-17
Pittsburgh	5-13	12	13-20
Notre Dame	4-14	13	13-18
Boston College	4-14	13	11-20
Georgia Tech	2-16	15	11-20

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