North Carolina returns to the field after an unexpected week off with a trip to ACC, which leads to Virginia.
Tar Heels won at the Duke until four last Saturday night, winning for the fourth time in five games. Carolina was scheduled to play Miami on Monday night, but several players and team managers gathered to celebrate the Duke’s victory. However, people from outside the team balloon participated, and videos of the event appeared.
Faced with the possibility that someone from the Tar Heel team had been exposed to COVID and with less than 48 hours of change, Miami was uncomfortable going ahead with Monday’s match and was postponed.
Tar heels have no quarantined or suspended ones. Coach Roy Williams said the incident’s discipline was “internal” and “appropriate” and that Tar Heels would be fully up for the Virginia game.
Heels will have to be in their game to stay with the Cavaliers, who went on a run after a shaky 4-2 start to the year. Virginia has won 10 of 11 games and leads ACC 10-1, 14-3 overall.
Carolina has struggled to defend the three this season, and Virginia is the eighth three-point shooting team in the country. Roy Williams said his big men will have to come out in the arc to defend the perimeter against big UVA men Jay Huff and Sam Hauser, who hit more than 42 percent of three.