UNC led their game against Pittsburgh for all but three minutes and 50 seconds. Unfortunately, they spotting the Panthers a stretch of over five minutes in which they didn’t score from the field, and Jamarius Burton put up 31 points to hand Carolina a loss in their final game of 2022.
It looked for a long stretch of time that Pitt would be unable to find an answer for Armando Bacot down low. The Carolina big man scored 22 points to lead the Heels, and he was proficient in getting his defender to commit a foul as they tried to contain him.