{"id":152443,"date":"2026-02-12T02:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152443\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:57:36","slug":"uncs-wilson-sprained-left-wrist-in-loss-to-miami-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152443\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC\u2019s Wilson sprained left wrist in loss to Miami :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina star freshman Caleb Wilson sprained his left wrist in the Tar Heels\u2019 loss at Miami on Tuesday night, a team spokesman said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson was injured early in the second half and returned with his left wrist heavily taped. He scored a season-low 12 points in 26 minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/miami-never-trails-in-75-66-win-over-no-11-north-carolina\/22320126\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the 75-66 loss to Miami<\/a>. Wilson made 4-of-10 shots from the field. In the second half, he appeared to be using his right hand for most shots. <\/p>\n<p>He was on the bench for the final 1:53 of the game.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, UNC coach Hubert Davis said \u201cthere is no situation\u201d when asked about Wilson\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 11 Tar Heels (19-5, 7-4 in the ACC) host Pittsburgh on Saturday. The ACC will release an injury report Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, a projected top-5 NBA Draft pick, leads the team in scoring (19.8 points per game), rebounds (9.4 per game), steals and blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson has been named ACC Rookie of the Week three times this season, including last week when he helped the Tar Heels defeat No. 4 Duke at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina star freshman Caleb Wilson sprained his left wrist in the Tar Heels\u2019 loss at Miami on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29211,8294,123,125,124,72944],"class_list":["post-152443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-acc-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-unc-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}