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Men: North Carolina at Pitt
Tipoff: 9 p.m., Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh
Records: North Carolina (13-8, 6-3 ACC); Pittsburgh (13-6, 4-4 ACC)
TV: ESPN (Kevin Brown and Jay Williams)
Notable: The Panthers will be wearing their Pittsburgh-themed black uniforms ... Pitt snapped its four-game losing skid with a 77-73 win at Syracuse on Saturday ... North Carolina broke a two-game losing streak with a 102-96 overtime home win over Boston College on Saturday ... UNC has lost to Kansas, Auburn, Michigan State, Alabama, Florida, Louisville, Stanford and Wake Forest ... Graduate guard RJ Davis, the ACC preseason player of the year, leads the Tar Heels by averaging 17.7 points per game. Other top players are freshman guard Ian Jackson (15.0 ppg.), junior guard Seth Trimble (12.4 ppg.) and sophomore guard Elliot Cadeau (10.7 ppg.) ... The two teams will play again in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Saturday, Feb. 8.
Mirror prediction: Pitt 79, North Carolina 77
Mirror prediction record: 14-5
-- Buck Frank
SFU men's program to honor Porter
LORETTO -- Saint Francis men's basketball will hold "Kevin Porter Night" on Thursday, Feb. 6, against Le Moyne. Game time is 7 p.m.
"Kevin is the greatest living Saint Francis basketball player," SFU coach Rob Krimmel said. "To welcome back many of his teammates is going to be a special night for us. Any opportunity to bring alumni back, especially from the Golden Era, allows the current players to experience the passion, pride, and love they have for Saint Francis."
Porter played for the Red Flash from 1968-72. He finished his career with 1,766 points and became the 16th player in program history to reach the century mark. He left Saint Francis second to only Maurice Stokes and currently sits fifth on the all-time chart. Porter averaged 23.0 or more points in his final three seasons, including a career-high 24.7 scoring average as a senior in 1971-72.
Porter enjoyed an 11-year career in the NBA. He led the NBA in assists four times and became the first player in the league's history to dish out 1,000 assists in a season, passing out 1,099 as a member of the Detroit Pistons in 1978-79. Porter finished his professional career with 5,314 assists and 7,654 points in 659 games.
Porter's 11-year career in the NBA is the longest tenure by a former Saint Francis player. Norm Van Lier played 10 seasons, Stokes played three seasons before his career was tragically cut short, and Mike Iuzzolino played two seasons in the NBA.
Porter returned to Saint Francis to serve as the men's basketball head coach from 1983-87 to become the second of three former Red Flash basketball players to serve as head coach (Dave Magarity and Rob Krimmel are the only two to accomplish this feat).
Porter was inducted into the Saint Francis Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.
From Mirror reports