Key Highlights
- The Golden Bears, meanwhile, are 13-5 overall and 1-4 in league play. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIn a game where Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson each scored 26 points, North Carolina lost 95-90 to Stanford in the first game of the Bay Area trip.
- While Stanford is a good team, it scored only 40 points two weeks ago in a 47-40 loss to Notre Dame. The Tar Heels allowed Stanford, led by a 36-point performance from freshman point guard Ebuka Okorie, to shoot 32-for-56 from the floor and 16-for-28 from beyond the arc, both at a 57.1 percent clip. It was the second time in the last three games that Carolina allowed an opponent to shoot 50 percent or better from the field and score 90 or more points.
- It was also the third straight game in which the Heels allowed a 40 percent success rate from 3-point range.
- Since the start of ACC play, Carolina has allowed 56 3-pointers — 14 per game. Meanwhile, Cal lost to No.
- 6 Duke 71-56 on its home floor in arguably its worst offensive performance of the season.
