Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports The Tar Heels are down one scholarship player for the rest of the season. This afternoon, the University of North Carolina released a statement in regards to red-shirt sophomore guard Anthony Harris. After missing the last two games, Harris will not be available to play for the rest of the season. While the school did not elaborate on what is going on with Harris, Carolina head coach Hubert Davis had this to say about the situation: “Anthony has worked hard to become a valuable contributor to our team,” says Carolina head coach Hubert Davis. “We are disappointed for Anthony and our team, but he will continue to contribute and we know he will work hard so he can play for us again next season.” Harris competed in 14 regular season games this season, and averaged 2.6 PPG, 0.4 rebounds, and 0.6 assists. He averaged 11.7 minutes per game, which was the lowest of the scholarship upperclassmen. One interesting piece of information released by the school is that he will still practice and participate in other team activities, so whatever the situation is, he remains on the team as an inactive player. Should the school release anymore information, we will provide an update as soon as possible.

Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports fine NC State men’s basketball resumes play on Saturday, again trying to figure out how to win at home. This is an unfortunate thing to have to type in the middle of January. So I don’t know that any actual distinct analysis is necessary at this point. This league stinks—Virginia stinks. There is a good chance that Virginia stinks less than NC State on Saturday afternoon, and if so, then good for them. Anyway here’s Virginia: Virginia has in recent years compromised culture for a win-now effort through the transfer portal, and that’s been costly at the defensive end, since obviously you can’t just show up and play defense like Tony Bennett wants you to play defense. This is not a criticism; it’s just what happened. This is a probable side-matter to the events this weekend, or maybe not. There’s going to be two basketball teams playing basketball against each other—one vastly more loathesome than they other—but setting that aside, we’ll just have to see what happens. It is unclear at this time what the results may be.