ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (AP) – Matt Coleman III hit a no-back jump shot with 0. 1 seconds to play for Texas No. 17 beat North Carolina No. 14 69-67 on Wednesday to win the Maui Invitational.
Coleman finished with 22 issues and the tournament’s most valuable player for the Longhorns (4-0), who took a 16-point lead in the past in the first half and lost with approximately 21. 2 minutes to play. fortune at critical moments for Texas, earning the Longhorns’ first name in Maui in their fifth appearance in the tournament.
Jones scored 12 points, adding a 2:19 draw to play, then a transition dump with 41. 2 seconds to play that led Texas to a 67-65 lead. UNC’s Leaky Black responded with two single shots with 25. 6 seconds to play, to watch Coleman make a difficult shot in front of RJ Davis who hit the hoop, bounced on the board and fell through the net.
Garrison Brooks scored 18 points for the Tar Heels (3-1) despite an ankle injury that sent him to the locker room at least twice.
The Longhorns, who had blocked Indiana a day earlier, claimed half of the first half. Texas used a 26-5 race to turn a five-point deficit into a 36-20 lead over Greg Brown’s 3:50 loose shots for playing.
But the Tar Heels roared at half-time with five consecutive possessions, the start of an effort that saw them do a greater task of getting the ball inside and avoiding ball losses. They clung to a difference five times earlier despite all ties. Caleb Love’s loose pitch at 3:54 for playing, then took his first lead after half-time in Brooks’ contested change with 2:35 to play.
Jones responded to his own jump shot in the next game, for the decisive last minute.
The tournament was played in the North Carolina Mountains instead of its classic stage in Hawaii due to the coronavirus pandemic, which gave the Tar Heels 3 games in Coach Roy Williams’ hometown, but with fan cuts in the stands and crowd noise breathing in.
BIG PICTURE
Texas: The Longhorns qualified for their first name game on Maui by beating Davidson in the first round on Monday and blocking Indiana in the semifinals on Tuesday. They did the same to the Tar Heels during the half, harassing them to shoot 39% with 10 turnovers. Then, after watching the Tar Heels pass all the way back, Coleman and the Longhorns came up with a series of games to beat the Tar Heels for the ninth time in 10 games.
UNC: The Tar Heels reached maximum improvement by overcoming a poor start in the first circular opposed to UNLV, then maintained the stretch to beat Stanford in the semi-finals. They dug a huge hole in this one, but recovered after only 4 ball losses In the part of the moment, they missed six of their last seven shots to close this one. They also made only 18 of 32 shots loose for many missed opportunities in a game that made a decision in the final moments.
Following
Texas: The Longhorns host No. 12 Villanova on Sunday in the Big 12-Big East battle.
UNC: The Tar Heels finished third in Iowa on Tuesday as a component of the ACC/Big Ten challenge.
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