With Wake Forest falling short, the third-ranked Tar Heels defeated the opposition, with the senior guard from White Plains, New York scoring 23 of his career-high 36 points after the break. At the Dean Smith Centre, it was the most points a player from North Carolina had scored since February 2008. In order to help the Tar Heels win their sixth straight ACC away game, Davis followed that with 24 points against Florida State, which included a difficult shot in the lane with 44 seconds remaining in a two-point game. For the first time since the 2000–01 season, the Tar Heels were unbeaten in league play after their Tuesday night game at Georgia Tech.
Mikeal Brown-Jones, UNC Greensboro. The senior from Philadelphia is averaging 21.1 points after hitting four 3s and pouring in 39 in a win at Western Carolina, then adding 19 points with 16 rebounds in a loss to Mercer. He is shooting nearly 58% from the field and is 17 of 33 from beyond the 3-point arc, helping to put the Spartans in the thick of the Southern Conference race.
The South Carolina Gamecocks beat college superstar Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes 87-75, finishing the season undefeated. An average of 18.9 million viewers turned on the final, making it the most watched women’s college basketball game ever, according to data from Nielsen, ESPN said Tuesday. The epic finale, which was broadcast on ABC and ESPN, peaked at 24.1 million viewers in the game’s final 15 minutes.
ESPN said viewership also significantly increased from the two most recent women’s national championship games – up 90% from 2023 and 289% from 2022.
In 32 games with Kentucky, Dillingham averaged 15.2 points and 3.2 assists in 23 minutes per game. The 2023-24 SEC Sixth Man of the Year also shot 44% from three-point range.
While he has yet to declare for the draft, Kentucky could also lose freshman guard Reed Sheppard, who led the team in assists (148 in 33 games) last season. Boone believes the Charlotte Hornets will take him with the fourth overall pick.
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