Pittsburgh Panthers (9-16, 2-10 ACC) at North Carolina Tar Heels (19-5, 7-4 ACC)<\/p>\n
Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Pittsburgh hits the road against No. 11 North Carolina looking to break its three-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Tar Heels are 14-0 in home games. North Carolina ranks second in the ACC with 26.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Henri Veesaar averaging 6.7.<\/p>\n
The Panthers have gone 2-10 against ACC opponents. Pittsburgh is 7-4 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 10.8 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
North Carolina averages 81.9 points, 10.4 more per game than the 71.5 Pittsburgh gives up. Pittsburgh averages 70.1 points per game, 0.6 fewer than the 70.7 North Carolina gives up.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Caleb Wilson is averaging 19.9 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Tar Heels. Veesaar is averaging 16.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brandin Cummings is averaging 12.5 points for the Panthers. Nojus Indrusaitis is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Tar Heels: 6-4, averaging 82.9 points, 30.9 rebounds, 16.1 assists, 5.9 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Panthers: 2-8, averaging 65.4 points, 31.5 rebounds, 13.0 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 39.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.7 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Panthers (9-16, 2-10 ACC) at North Carolina Tar Heels (19-5, 7-4 ACC) Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27901,53965,10150,2300,3840,53964,16220,32669,1828,20097,53963,40,28,73,75,74,17935,46840,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-112942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-atlantic-coast-conference","9":"tag-caleb-wilson","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-data-skrive","13":"tag-henri-veesaar","14":"tag-mens-college-basketball","15":"tag-nc-state-wire","16":"tag-north-carolina","17":"tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","18":"tag-north-carolina-tar-heels-mens-basketball","19":"tag-pa-state-wire","20":"tag-pennsylvania","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","23":"tag-pittsburgh-news","24":"tag-pittsburgh-panthers","25":"tag-send-to-apple-news","26":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}