“It was a good time,” UNC captain Marcus Paige said as he pointed to Joel Berry scoring a career-high and team-leading 15 points and several players seeing action for the first time in a long time and one seeing action for the first time.
Theo Pinson has been out for 10 games but got to play late in the game, scoring five points. Stilman White has been injured for much of the season but he got some action, securing a rebound. Finally, Spenser Dalton, who was called up from the JV squad just this week, picked up a steal.
Dalton, a junior, had been practicing with the short-handed varsity and UNC coach Roy Williams rewarded him with a promotion.
Senior Luke Davis had been out the entire season with a foot injury but even he got some action late.
On the other side, however, Georgia Tech lost leading scorer Marcus Georges-Hunt to a foot injury in the first few minutes of the game.
“I think they ran out of gas,” Coach Williams said. “We just had more bodies than they did.”
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