North Carolina returns to the field after an unexpected week off with a trip to ACC leading Virginia.
The Tar Heels won four at Duke last Saturday night and won for the fourth time in five games. Carolina was due to play against Miami on Monday night, but several players and managers from the team got together to celebrate after Duke’s victory. However, people from outside the team bubble were in attendance and videos of the event surfaced.
Faced with the possibility that someone from the Tar Heel team had been exposed to COVID, and with a turnaround time of less than 48 hours, Miami felt uncomfortable going ahead with Monday’s game, and it was postponed.
The Tar Heels have not quarantined or suspended anyone. Coach Roy Williams said discipline for the incident was “internal” and “appropriate” and that the Tar Heels would be in full force for the Virginia game.
The Heels will have to be in their game to stay with the Cavaliers, who have fled after a shaky 4-2 start to the year. Virginia has won 10 out of 11 games and leads the ACC 10-1, 14-3 overall.
Carolina has struggled to defend the three this season and Virginia is the eighth most accurate three-point shooting team in the country. Roy Williams said his big men should go to the arch to defend the perimeter against UVA big men Jay Huff and Sam Hauser, who both hit more than 42 percent of three.