UNC's Caleb Wilson outduels Kansas' Darryn Peterson in battle of freshman phenoms originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The game had barely started when Caleb Wilson took flight. The North Carolina freshman saw that a UNC shot was going to bound high off the rim.

In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we asked you to grade Bears coach Ben Johnson on the first “half” (eight games out of 17) of his debut season. Given the Bears’ 5-3 record, it’s no surprise the marks were quite good.