CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jarin Stevenson and Seth Trimble scored 19 points each to help No. 11 North Carolina beat Pittsburgh 79-65 on Saturday and secure another 20-win season.<\/p>\n
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
Stevenson\u2019s total was a season-high for the Alabama transfer.<\/p>\n
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
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
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
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
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
Trimble, in the first home game since his game-winning 3-pointer a week earlier against Duke, had 13 first-half points.<\/p>\n
North Carolina, which has 66 20-win seasons, improved to 15-0 at home.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUp Next<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh: Home next Saturday vs. Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
North Carolina: Tuesday night at N.C. State.<\/p>\n
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Jarin Stevenson’s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jarin Stevenson and Seth Trimble scored 19 points each to help No. 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33388,6811,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-114224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114224","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=114224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}