Nov. 20, 2010
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The Commodores and Tar Heels will play in the consolation finals of the 2010 Honda Puerto Rico Tip-Off Sunday at 4:30 p.m. CT. The game can be seen live on ESPN2 and heard on the Vanderbilt Sports Network from IMG College and vucommodores.com.
Vanderbilt lost a hard-fought, 74-71, decision to West Virginia in the semifinals on Friday. The Mountaineers’ Casey Mitchell scored the final three of his career-high 32 points with three seconds remaining to push WVU into the finals on Sunday.
The Mountaineers will take on Minnesota, who took out North Carolina, 72-67, on Friday night. WVU and Minnesota will tip off 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Commodores’ contest with the Tar Heels.
Sunday’s meeting will be the 10th overall between the two schools. North Carolina leads the all-time series, 6-3; VU leads 3-0 in Nashville, UNC leads 4-0 in Chapel Hill and 2-0 on neutral floors.
The last meeting came in the first game of the 1995-96 season, when UNC knocked off Vanderbilt, 71-63, on November 20, 1995, at the Maui Invitational.