Mark Sears and No. 10 Alabama will take the court against RJ Davis and No. 20 North Carolina in the SEC/ACC Challenge on Wednesday.
Alabama, the country’s No. 10 ranked team, will travel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Wednesday for men’s college basketball. In Chapel Hill, they will face off against No. 20-ranked North Carolina at the Dean E. Smith Center in the SEC/ACC Men’s Challenge presented by Continental Tire. The Crimson Tide are 6-2 overall this season through one month of play. They opened up at home in Tuscaloosa against UNC Asheville and proceeded to beat them, Arkansas State, and McNeese before heading on the road for the first time.
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They lost their first road game against the former No. 13-ranked Purdue by nine points. They bounced back beating former No. 25-ranked Illinois in the next game before heading to the Players Era Festival. In that tournament, they won their opening game against former No. 6-ranked Houston and then beat Rutgers in the semifinal. However, they lost the championship game against Oregon by two points. All-American Mark Sears leads this team in scoring with 16.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game.
The Tar Heels have had a rough first month of the season. The ACC side of this challenge heads into this game with a 4-3 record. They lost their only top-25 matchup before their in-season tournament against top-ranked Kansas on the road. Before the Maui Invitational, they beat Elon, American, and Hawai’i. They opened up the tournament with a two-point win against Dayton, led by 30 points from RJ Davis.
They would go on to lose the semifinals against the No. 2-ranked Auburn by 13 points and then the third-place game against Michigan State by three points in overtime. RJ Davis leads this team in scoring and will be a huge matchup with Sears. Davis averages 18.4 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 4.4 assists per game.
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