UNC Basketball: 5 reasons why Tar Heels have fallen apart this season

1. Too many poor shooting nights from RJ Davis and Caleb Love

When talking about the top backcourts in college basketball, the duo of Love and Davis comes to mind. And it makes sense, as both guys are capable of going for 30 points on any given night, as they were in the NCAA Tournament. But as high a ceiling as they have, there’s just as low a floor with them as well.

The two are averaging around 32 ppg combined season, with Love at 16.6 ppg and Davis at 15.8 ppg. This season alone, Davis has four games of at least 20 points, while Love has seven, including a 34-point effort in a four OT loss to Alabama.

Ironically enough, both players are shooting around their career averages from the field, which is the problem. Davis is at 43% from the field and 34% from three-point range, while Love is at 38% from the field and 29% from deep on over seven attempts a game.

Just in the last game alone, Love went 0-9 from the field to start the game against Wake Forest. He did finish with 24 points on 9/25 shooting overall but by the time he was making those shots, they were down double figures and out of the game. And Davis isn’t immune to it either, going 12/43 from the last three games alone, all of which are losses.

When only four guys take 90% of the shots and two of them can be as inefficient as the two, that makes North Carolina vulnerable to losing to just about anyone. And that’s what has been happening lately.