{"id":114201,"date":"2026-02-14T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:04:09","slug":"stevenson-and-trimble-carry-no-11-north-carolina-past-pittsburgh-79-65-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114201\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenson and Trimble carry No. 11 North Carolina past Pittsburgh, 79-65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP)  Jarin Stevenson and Seth Trimble scored 19 points each to help No. 11 <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/UNC\/north-carolina-tar-heels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/PITT\/pittsburgh-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh<\/a> 79-65 on Saturday and secure another 20-win season.<\/p>\n<p>The short-handed Tar Heels played without star freshman forward Caleb Wilson (bone fracture in left hand) and center Henri Veesaar (illness\/lower body injury), who had both started every game this season and are the team\u2019s top two scorers and rebounders.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson\u2019s total was a season-high for the Alabama transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Bogavac and Zayden High, who had a career-best game, each scored 15 points for North Carolina (20-5, 8-4 Atlantic Coast Conference).<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Corhen had 23 points and Roman Siulepa added 14 points for Pittsburgh (9-17, 2-11), which has lost five in a row, including four against ranked teams.<\/p>\n<p>High made his first career start and he posted the game\u2019s first basket on the way to shooting 7 for 11 from the field. He also had a team-high seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh cut a 21-point deficit to 62-48 before North Carolina\u2019s 8-0 spurt put the game away. The Panthers took only eight free throws, while the Tar Heels took 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels broke out to a 16-5 lead. North Carolina made 10 of its first 12 shots from the field, helping it to a 46-32 a halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Trimble, in the first home game since his game-winning 3-pointer a week earlier against Duke, had 13 first-half points.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina, which has 66 20-win seasons, improved to 15-0 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh: Home next Saturday vs. Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina: Tuesday night at N.C. State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Jarin Stevenson&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) Jarin Stevenson and Seth Trimble scored 19 points each to help No. 11 North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10150,20097,73,75,74,17935],"class_list":["post-114201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college-basketball","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-panthers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114201","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=114201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}