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Gametime Set for Pitt vs North Carolina Basketball

The Pitt Panthers will tip-off at noon in their ACC home opener.

Stephen Thompson

Gametime Set for Pitt vs North Carolina Basketball
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PITTSBURGH -- Tip-off between the Pitt Panthers and North Carolina has been set, the ACC announced. The 2021 national runner-ups and preseason No. 1 team in the country will visit the Petersen Events Center for a noon start the day before New Year's Eve. ACC Network will broadcast the game. 

The Panthers fell to 6-4 after dropping a one-point game to Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennesee. They are 1-0 in the ACC, though, after topping North Carolina State 68-60 at PNC Arena last weekend. A road game at Syracuse and the final non-conference games against Sacred Heart and North Florida stand between Pitt and this date with the Tar Heels.

The Panthers have won three of the past four meetings against North Carolina, including a 76-67 victory at the Dean E. Smith Center last season. Pitt, typically a poor shooting team last season, knocked down 10 of 17 3-pointers to steal a win. The team lost its next five in a row to close out the season. 

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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