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THE ESSENTIALS
WHAT
#9 Michigan (4-2) vs #49 North Carolina (4-2)
WHERE
Dean Smith Center Chapel Hill, NC
WHEN
9:15 PM Eastern Wednesday, 12/1
THE LINE
Kenpom: M -4 Torvik: M -1
TELEVISION
ESPN
THE OVERVIEW
Michigan seeks to run its recent streak of victories over UNC to three in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game tonight. Roy Williams retired this offseason and UNC, like so many other schools, decided to run the Juwan Howard playbook by hiring an assistant coach who is a famous alum of the program. In this case Hubert Davis was Williams's right-hand man and widely regarded as a coach in waiting, but it's still the playbook.
Davis took over a program that was in rough shape, by UNC standards. In 2019 they imploded, going 6-14 in the ACC, and last year's recovery was only good enough to an 8-9 game against Wisconsin that they lost by 23 points. A relatively wobbly recruiting class (again by UNC standards, just a couple of guys ranked in the 60s) le