Saturday’s thrilling win over Duke marked the second-straight win for the North Carolina Tar Heels to move them to 8-2 on the year. It was a wild game from start to finish as UNC was able to squeak out the win in double-overtime.
The game had a lot of highlights as Drake Maye led his team on a few big drives to take the lead, tie and then even win it. But it wasn’t Maye who earned Atlantic Coast Conference honors this week. Instead, it was two other Tar Heels.
The conference announced on Monday that running back Omarion Hampton and kicker Noah Burnette were two players who earned ACC honors.
Hampton was named co-running back of the week along with Syracuse’s Dan Villari:
The ACC’s leading rusher, Hampton compiled 169 yards on 31 carries with a touchdown while adding a career-high eight receptions for 47 yards in North Carolina’s 47-45 double-overtime win over Duke. His 31 rushing attempts were the most by a Tar Heel since Ryan Houston had 37 carries for 164 yards against Duke in 2009. This season, Hampton has recorded 13 rushing touchdowns and 1,236 rushing yards in 10 games. This marks his third conference weekly honor of the season.
After hitting the game-tying field goal as time expired, it was Noah Burnette’s sixth field goal of the game which set a program record. And he was named the ACC specialist of the week:
In North Carolina’s 47-45 double-overtime win over Duke, Burnette tied the UNC record with six made field goals in a single game (23, 31, 25, 27, 43 and 24), including making good on the game-tying field goal to send the game into overtime as time expired. Burnette has connected on 18-of-19 field goals this season.
North Carolina returns to action on Saturday as they head to Clemson to take on the Tigers.
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