After picking up a 97-73 dominant home win over the NC State Wolfpack (10-16, 3-12 ACC) on Wednesday night, Hubert Davis' fourth UNC basketball team climbed five notches to No. 45 overall in the NCAA NET Rankings on Thursday morning. The NCAA NET Rankings are a metric used to evaluate squads for NCAA Tournament invites and seeding.

After a blowout win over NC State on Wednesday night, North Carolina has won three of their last four games and two straight games. Wednesday's game was more of a 'can't lose' for the Tar Heels and they made sure they didn't.

After making it two wins in a row, UNC basketball head coach, Hubert Davis, spoke out about the progress of his team in the home stretch.

Clemson appears at No. 30 in the NCAA NET Rankings, third among ACC teams. UNC basketball checks in at No. 46, fifth in a conference likely to receive no more than a handful of NCAA Tournament invites.