South Carolina Upstate 62, at North Carolina 80

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Interstat) — Caleb Wilson recorded a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds as North Carolina methodically dispatched South Carolina Upstate 80-62 in a nonconference men’s basketball game Saturday at a sold-out Dean Smith Center. A crowd of 17,759 watched the Tar Heels, now 9-1, use a decisive efficiency advantage to pull away from the Spartans, who fell to 6-6. North Carolina scored 80 points on just 64 possessions, an offensive rating of 124.1, while South Carolina Upstate managed only 62 points on 65 trips, a rating of 94.8. The game’s most important sequence came early in… Read more...