How No. 19 Kentucky (8-2) and No. 9 North Carolina (8-2) match up at each position — with a game prediction:
Small forward
u25aa Kentucky’s Keldon Johnson is coming off the best offensive game of his brief college career. In UK’s 88-61 spanking of Utah, the 6-foot-6, 211-pound freshman made eight of nine field goals, six of seven three-pointers, and scored 24 points. Two games ago, Johnson (team-best 16.1 ppg, 5.6 rpg) hit a half-court shot at the regulation buzzer to force overtime in what became UK’s 84-83 overtime loss to Seton Hall.
u25aa North Carolina’s Cameron Johnson (16.