Caleb Fancy, No. 8 UNC Beat No. 4 UCLA, Will Face Saint Peter’s in Elite Eight

The No. 8 seed UNC males’s basketball crew is heading to the Elite Eight of the NCAA match for the first time since 2017 after beating the No. 4 seed UCLA Bruins 73-66 on Friday at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Heart.

UNC guard Caleb Fancy scored a recreation-excessive 30 points, including relief-to-relief three-pointers that build the Tar Heels up 67-64 with 1: 06 final.

Tar Heels tall man Armando Bacot contributed a 14-level, 15-rebound double-double, and his tip-in with 22 seconds left gave North Carolina a 69-64 edge.

UCLA guard Jules Bernard scored 16 points to lead four UCLA Bruins who scored in double digits.

UNC improved to 27-9. UCLA, which made the Remaining Four final year, ended its season at 27-8.

Considerable Performances

UNC G Caleb Fancy: 30 points, 4 assists

UNC F Armando Bacot: 14 points, 15 rebounds

UNC F Brady Manek: 13 points, 8 rebounds

UCLA G Jules Bernard: 16 points, 5 rebounds

UCLA G Tyger Campbell: 15 points, 6 assists

UCLA G Johnny Juzang: 14 points, 4 rebounds

Led By Fancy, UNC Hits Massive Photographs Down Stretch for Receive

The premise for this recreation is easy: UNC hit the tall shots when it wished to basically the most, and UCLA can also no longer respond.

Fancy carried UNC to the expend alongside with his maintain Herculean efforts as he scored 27 of his 30 points in the 2d half and hit six three-pointers total:

One in all those threes went down from the emblem and gave UNC a 51-50 lead:

Assorted UNC players purchased in on the act, even supposing, with Brady Manek nailing one from deep for a 61-60 lead:

Fancy wished a shrimp support from Bacot to be the hero as soon as all as soon as more. After a omit, Bacot saved the ball, which stumbled on its map relief to Friday’s celebrity for some other frigid-blooded three-level try. This one went in, and the rating was as soon as tied at 64.

Fancy had been feeling it all 2d half, so why mustn’t he grasp straight away regarded to shoot as quickly as he purchased the ball on the wing right here? 

UNC by no map trailed for the remainder of the recreation, and Fancy ended up doing something no different Tar Heel has performed in 35 years.

Now Fancy and the Tar Heels are relief in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2017. They’ll absolutely hope to repeat that creep, which ended with the college’s sixth males’s hoops national title.

Frigid Shooting, Sad Rebounding Doom Bruins

UCLA was as soon as in ideal form midway via the 2d half after Bernard made a layup with 9: 27 left to construct the Bruins up 56-51.

Of route, this recreation was as soon as a ways from over, nevertheless UCLA stumbled on itself in the driver’s seat with a gigantic gamble to head relief to the Remaining Four.

As a substitute, the Bruins are going home early.

The Bruins completely scored 10 points for the remainder of the recreation. They made appropriate 5-of-16 enviornment dreams and missed all four of their three-pointers.

They were largely a one-man repeat in the tip, as Tyger Campbell scored six of those points and assisted on some other bucket.

Bernard hit the completely different shot in the route of that stretch on a putback off a Johnny Juzang omit.

Rebounding anxiety the Bruins, who misplaced the board battle 43-34. 

Bacot had four offensive rebounds in the final 5: 25 alone. Three of those boards led to points: a pair of Bacot free throws to cleave the UCLA result in 58-56, Fancy’s three to tie the recreation at 64 and a tip-in for the 69-64 advantage.

Campbell’s layup cleave the result in 69-66, nevertheless UNC iced the recreation with free throws, surroundings up a rare No. 8 vs. No. 15 seed Elite Eight matchup.

What’s Subsequent?

UNC will face No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s, which defeated No. 3 seed Purdue 67-64 earlier in the evening. The Peacocks are the bottom seed to ever fabricate the Elite Eight.

The recreation is scheduled for Sunday after the conclusion of the Elite Eight matchup between Kansas and Miami, which begins at 2: 20 p.m. ET.