Wilson is North Carolina’s leading scorer and rebounder this season.<\/p>\n
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 North Carolina freshman forward Caleb Wilson will miss the rest of the season after breaking his right thumb during a non-contact drill in practice Thursday. He will require surgery.<\/p>\n
The injury is the second hand fracture Wilson has suffered this season. He broke a bone in his left hand at Miami on Feb. 10 and had missed Carolina’s last six games. He was cleared for individual workouts late last week and was working his way back toward rejoining the lineup when Thursday’s setback occurred \u2014 breaking his right thumb while dunking.<\/p>\n
Wilson is the Tar Heels’ leading scorer (19.8 ppg) and rebounder (9.4 rpg). The Atlanta native has been named National Player of the Week twice and ACC Freshman of the Week three times this season.<\/p>\n
North Carolina (24-6, 12-5 ACC) plays at Duke on Saturday at 6:35 p.m. The Tar Heels have clinched a double-bye in the ACC Tournament and will open play in the quarterfinals in Charlotte on Friday, March 12, at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Without Wilson in the lineup, UNC has gone 5-1 overall, the lone loss coming on the road at North Carolina State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilson is North Carolina’s leading scorer and rebounder this season. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 North Carolina freshman forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-507927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}