Pinson sparks UNC past Notre Dame

1-2 – North Carolina’s Luke Maye leads the ACC in per game scoring improvement (13.2), while Notre Dame’s T.J. Gibbs is second (11.6) …

Last Meeting: North Carolina 69-68 on January 13, 2018.

The Over/Under (O/U) for the game has been set at 150.5 points with North Carolina opening as a 9.5-point favorite. Battle averaged 29.5 points per game in two wins last week and leads the ACC in 20-point games (13) and is third in scoring (20.3). Coinciding with Notre Dame, Tar Heels games also have a tendency to finish over the total (56.0 percent). Sophomore guard Nik Djogo put up 12 points in the loss.

When you are betting this College Basketball game on Monday – take the North Carolina Tar Heels -9 over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Geben’s three minutes in the first half was outweighed by Mooney’s 15-point first half performance. The scoring was spread around though, as senior Chelsea Nelson and redshirt junior Armani Hawkins had 8 points each, while redshirt junior Kiara Leslie poured in 7.

As mentioned before, UNC is hoping to make it four-straight wins before they enter the final stretch of the season.

The model has taken into account North Carolina’s recent resurgence, which has included a three-game conference winning streak highlighted by a huge victory over Duke last week.

Maye made only 1 shot and scored just 4 points in the first half. During the team’s current three-game win streak, Maye is averaging 24.7 points and 11 rebounds. The Tar Heels responded with a 22-6 run, capped with a layup by Berry to extend the lead to 17 points with under two minutes left.

Even with the hard circumstances, the strong finish shouldn’t have come as a surprise for the Tar Heels. State held UNC to only 6 points, while pouring in 20 in the second frame in a balanced effort.

Four wins in four days over some of the top teams in America earned the fifth-ranked UNC women’s tennis team the ITA National Indoor Championship, capped off by a 4-2 victory over the No. 6 Pepperdine Waves on Monday afternoon. Sophomore guard Brandon Robinson (2.4 PPG) helps relieve Berry and company in the backcourt in the absence of freshman guard Jalek Felton (2.9 PPG).

Brooks likely won’t start as Williams will probably deploy his smaller lineup but he will be inserted early in the game. The only question over the past seven days has been which games involving the state of North Carolina’s three most recognizable college basketball programs fall under the umbrella of the unofficial event.

The Tar Heels are No. 24 nationally scoring 83.3 points and allow 73.6 (No. 222) while shooting 46.5 percent from the field and 36.9 percent behind the arc.

Meanwhile, North Carolina is 19-7 SU and 12-10-3 ATS. It was a sloppy one for the Tar Heels at times and they were beat on the boards 45-37.

Do those numbers stay around the same the second time around?

By the late stages, Carolina’s defense had effectively forced Duke back into their historical role as a team that can shoot from range, encouraging a host of ill-advised and frankly ugly shots, while their offense forced the Blue Devils into enough foul trouble that Coach K’s team had to play something of a hands-off defense.

The win finished off a grueling, though successful, stretch that saw UNC beat Duke, NC State and the shorthanded Irish within the span of just 96 hours to thrust itself back into contention for a top-four seed and double bye in the upcoming ACC tournament. The Notre Dame FIghting Irish are the underdogs, and a team that can certainly get hot, and upset the Tar Heels in this game.