The North Carolina Tar Heels and Wisconsin Badgers are playing on the NCAA Tournament schedule and the Sweet 16 matchup for the West region will be on TBS on TV and streaming online from the March Madness website starting up past 7:47 pm ET and the matchup is from Staples Center in Los Angeles as the number four UNC team takes on the number one seed in this part of the bracket.
This matchup is one of the best of the tournament round and has two schools that could go all the way. Frank Kaminsky has played very well for the Badgers, while guard Marcus Paige will be the top player to watch for UNC. The Tar Heels come into the game after getting a win against the Arkansas Razorbacks and now they have the Badgers in this round as they try and get to the Elite Eight.
Paige scored 22 points against the Razorbacks in the last round, while Justin Jackson led the way with 13 rebounds and JP Tokoto had eight assists. The Tar Heels have a strong roster with Kennedy Meeks, Paige and Jackson and now they will try and get into the next round against one of the top teams in the nation. The Tar Heels come into the game averaging 77 points per game this season on offense and they were also ranked second in rebounds and assists per game this year.
The team went 26-11 overall this season and they have won over Harvard and Arkansas in the tournament and that came after losing against Notre Dame in the ACC tournament. The team won three games in a row to get into that game and they ended the regular season winning two of three games, with the lone loss coming against Duke. Duke and UNC are both alive along with the NC State Wolfpack and those teams are trying to make a run for the ACC.
Wisconsin comes into the game after winning against Oregon and now they have UNC in a tough matchup for the west region. Wisconsin comes in as the champions in the Big Ten and they had a strong season with a 33-3 record and they went 16-2 in the conference. Sam Dekker comes in after leading the team with 17 points against the Ducks and they have Kaminsky coming in after putting up seven rebounds in the game.
Wisconsin comes in having won 18 games in the last 19 and they have won eight in a row overall coming into ther Sweet 16. The team won over Michigan State for the Big Ten and they won over Coastal Carolina before playing against Oregon and now they have North Carolina. Kentucky remains the favorites in the tournament, but these two teams could make runs this year.
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