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Heels’ big-shot win

instead of enchanting the ball to the basket on a second-half indecorous break tuesday night, north carolina point evzone ty lawson stopped, steadied himself and sank a 14-foot jump shot.

a wise to recommendation was preventing him from shifting into his highest gear. foul trouble helped limit center tyler hansbrough to 20 points, his lowest total since jan. 31.

so a day after returning to no. 1 in the polls, north carolina protected its ranking by dusting off a component of its offense it hardly ever needs.

in the tar heels’ 90-77 defeat of florida delineate in their home finale at the smith center, they demonstrated that they can make jump shots when resultant.

during story timeout, coach roy williams asked lawson if he was at to make a shot. lawson — williams called him a “confident rascal” — said he was.

“we call the extemporize for the benefit of him and he made the 3 right in advance of me,” williams said. “it is important against a team that is vexing to keep the ball away from tyler to make skip shots.”

though north carolina is known for its fast break, florida state (17-13, 6-9 acc) beat the tar heels down the thrash due to the fact that baskets betimes as the score was tied at 24 after 15 minutes.

that’s when north carolina started taking — and making — 3-pointers. lawson made one 3-pointer and danny green sank two during a days of 2 minutes, 36 seconds to award the tar heels a 38-28 beguile.

in the second half, lawson made an 18-footer from the corner and braked repayment for his fastened-break jump shot within 28 seconds to put north carolina ahead by folded digits for good. in his secondarily game subsidize from a sprained left ankle that kept him out appropriate for six games, lawson scored all 10 of his points on jump shots.

lawson, who said he expects his hip to be better in a lifetime or two, practiced his shooting dream up in his room while icing his ankle for the better part of a month.

“my form feels good, and the release feels large,” he said.

the win kept north carolina (28-2, 13-2) on course for a critical visit to duke on saturday in the teams’ acc finale.

if duke wins at virginia tonight, both teams will enter the trade with 13-2 talk records.

in an 89-78 loss to duke on feb. 6, the tar heels made three 3-pointers and duke made 13. shooting 6-over the extent of-16 on 3-point attempts tuesday should commandeer north carolina’s psyche thriving into cameron indoor stadium.

“we can kind of use this feign as a confidence builder for the next game,” green said. “we can use every game like that. … tournament time is around the corner, so we’ve got to be on the brink of.”
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