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Davidson’s Jack Gibbs, one of the nation’s top guards, aiming for another shot against UNC

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The highest-scoring player ever at Davidson has a prediction about the highest-scoring player on this season’s team.

"I just know he's a gamer," Stephen Curry, the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, told me recently about Davidson senior point guard Jack Gibbs. "He knows how to play. ...I'm sure we will see Jack repping some NBA jersey next year."

Gibbs isn't Curry -- nobody is -- but he's the closest thing Davidson (5-2) has headed into Wednesday's game at No. 7 North Carolina (8-1). One of the best point guards in the country, Gibbs would need to play a tremendous game for Davidson to have any chance at pulling off an upset in the Smith Center (9 p.