UNC basketball player after another loss: “We’re hungry now”

UNC basketball player after another loss: “We’re hungry now”

The unranked Michigan State Spartans (5-2, 0-0 Big Ten) had to rely on a double-digit scorer, Jase Richardson (head), in the Maui Invitational final against the now-floundering UNC basketball team in the event’s third-place game. , waive on Wednesday evening. Still, Hubert Davis’ fourth Tar Heels series, currently ranked 12th in the AP Top 25 but sure to see a significant decline, struggled badly in the first half, as it always has this season.

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After trailing by as many as 14 points late in the first half, marking the team’s third double-digit first-half deficit in as many Maui games, UNC rallied somewhat to make it 43-34 at the break. And a better version of the Tar Heels emerged in the second half, eventually forcing overtime before falling to the Spartans 94-91.

UNC basketball sophomore point guard and full-time starter Elliot Cadeau then addressed the Tar Heels’ struggles, pointing to a newfound sense of hunger that resulted from back-to-back losses to cap off their disappointing 2-2 stretch in Hawaii:

“I feel like we’re hungry now. We know that nothing is given to us for free and we just learned a lot from it. I think the biggest thing we learned from this was that our toughness just needs to get better. “Like us.” has to be harder.

“And I feel like we’re going to put that into practice every day. We have to. We have no choice.”

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