{"id":106796,"date":"2015-12-19T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=106796"},"modified":"2015-12-21T23:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:45:27","slug":"heels-come-from-11-down-to-win-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=106796","title":{"rendered":"Heels come from 11 down to win easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uncberryucla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uncberryucla.jpg\" alt=\"UNC Sports Information.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-106797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uncberryucla.jpg 640w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uncberryucla-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uncberryucla-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uncberryucla-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>No. 11 North Carolina trailed No. 22 UCLA by 11 points midway through the first half but then used an aggressive scrambling, trapping defense to come back to defeat the Bruins 89-76 in the CBS Classic in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA hit five three pointers, four by Isaac Hamilton, in the first 10 minutes to take a 26-15 lead. After a shot-clock violation by UNC and the under eight minutes TV timeout, the Tar Heels got an earful from Coach Roy Williams and a more aggressive team came out of the huddle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the way we got some turnovers in the scramble defense, something that we haven&#8217;t done much this year,&#8221; said Coach Williams, who added that they had practice it a lot this week after not getting much practice time in earlier due to exams and several players being sick.<\/p>\n<p>After pressure defense forced a UCLA turnover, Brice Johnson, who scored a new career-high 27 points, banked one in to start the run. A Marcus Paige to Justin Jackson fastbreak layup cut the deficit to five.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure not only rattled the Bruins, it forced fouls that got a couple of UCLA players in foul trouble. Johnson canned a couple of free throws to cut the Bruin lead to three at 33-30 with 3:48 left in the half.<\/p>\n<p>Theo Pinson threw an alley-oop to Johnson to cut into the lead further and then he scored on a contest driving layup to tie the game at 34 with 2:15 left in the half. A Paige to Johnson fastbreak layup gave Carolina its first lead since 3-2 at 38-36.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels forced 11 of UCLA&#8217;s 17 turnovers in the first half and scored 14 points off them to head into the locker room tied at 38.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina went on an 8-0 run to start the second half to take a 46-38 lead following a dunk and free throw by Joel James.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels led by just three however with 11 minutes to go. But a 20-6 UNC run over the next six minutes broke the game open at 78-61 with just over five minutes to play. <\/p>\n<p>For a box score and more on the game, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb3media.com\/heelprints\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 11 North Carolina trailed No. 22 UCLA by 11 points midway through the first half but then used an aggressive scrambling, trapping defense to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106799,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106796\/revisions\/106799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}