Back to the North Carolina Tar Heels Newsfeed

UNC Focused on Improvement, Not Panicking After Six Games

"Everybody's been on us for our defense," Brady Manek said after UNC's 72-53 win over UNC Asheville. "And we're giving up so many points and all I hear is people are outscoring us by this much and teams are in the 90s, this and that. Well, we played defense (tonight) and we didn't really play offense. We've got to play both. We can't just pick one." (Inside Carolina) UNC Basketball Takes Step Forward Defensively
Not only did UNC hold Asheville to 26.5 percent shooting, but it also gave up just 53 points and didn’t allow a single fast break.