North Carolina is back on track after an unexpected vacation with a trip to ACC leading Virginia.
The Tar Heels won last Saturday night with Duke by four and won for the fourth time in five games. Carolina was scheduled to play Miami on Monday night, but several players and managers in the team gathered to celebrate after the Duke victory. However, people from outside the team bubble attended, and videos of the event appeared.
Faced with the possibility that someone in the Tar Heel team was exposed to COVID, and with less than a 48-hour turnaround, Miami was uncomfortable continuing with Monday’s game, and it was postponed.
The tar heels did not quarantine or suspend anyone. Coach Roy Williams said the discipline for the incident was ‘internal’ and ‘appropriate’ and that the tar heels would be at full strength for the game in Virginia.
The heels need to be on their toes to hang with the Cavaliers, who were on track after a shaky 4-2 start to the year. Virginia has won ten of those 11 games and is the forerunner of the ACC at 10-1, 14-3 overall.
Carolina has struggled to defend the three this season, and Virginia is the eighth most accurate three-point shooting team in the country. Roy Williams said his big men will have to go to the arc to defend the perimeter against UVA big men Jay Huff and Sam Hauser, who both hit more than 42 percent of three.