CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Caleb Wilson and Henry Veesar both collected double-doubles as No. 16 North Carolina pulled away from visiting Georgetown in the second half to win 81-61.
Wilson tallied 20 points and 14 rebounds, while Veesar totaled 18 points and 15 boards for the Tar Heels (8-1). Derek Dixon and Luka Bogavac each added 14 points apiece for UNC.
KJ Lewis paced the Hoyas (6-3) with 17 points and Julius Halaifonua scored 14.
Sparked by a 3-pointer from Malik Mack, the Hoyas went on a 10-2 run in the game’s opening five minutes to grab an early five-point lead. The Tar Heels charged back though and led by seven points on a 3-pointer from Dixon just before intermission.
Georgetown trimmed its deficit to three on two occasions early in the second half, but the Tar Heels used a 12-2 run midway through the second half to open a 15-point lead. That scoring surge was capped off by Dixon, Veesar and Jarin Stevenson swishing 3-pointers in the span of less than 90 seconds.
UNC has been led this season by the frontcourt duo of Veesar and Wilson, who entered the game averaging a combined 35.3 points and 18.6 rebounds per game. They’re the first pair of Tar Heels to average at least 16 points and eight rebounds per game since Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace did in the 1994-95 season. In eight of UNC’s nine games, either Veesar or Wilson have led North Carolina in scoring.
Georgetown guard DeShawn Harris-Smith (personal reasons) did not play, according to a statement from the team.
North Carolina: USC Upstate visits Chapel Hill on Saturday.
Georgetown: The Hoyas host Saint Peter’s on Saturday.
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North Carolina's Luka Bogavac (44) drives against Georgetown's Caleb Williams (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)
North Carolina's Jonathan Powell, right, attempts to shoot over Georgetown's Julius Halaifonua, left, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)
North Carolina's Henri Veesaar (13) grabs a rebound between teammate Jarin Stevenson (15) and Georgetown's KJ Lewis (5) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, gave a lecture in Stockholm on Sunday in one of his rare public appearances.
The lecture was part of the Nobel week that is underway in Stockholm and Oslo with laureates holding news conferences and giving speeches before they are awarded the prestigious prizes.
Krasznahorkai's lecture, which he gave in Hungarian, ranged across topics such as old and new angels, human dignity, hope or the lack thereof, rebellion and his observations of a clochard — or tramp — on the Berlin subway.
He introduced his lecture, according to the English translation, by saying that “on receiving the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, I originally wished to share my thought with you on the subject of hope, but as my stores of hope have definitely come to an end, I will now speak about angels.”
As opposed to “the angels of old,” the new angels, Krasznahorkai said, “have no wings, but they also have no message, none whatsoever. They are merely here among us in their simple street clothes, unrecognizable if they so wish.
“They just stand there and look at us, they are searching for our gaze, and in this search there is a plea for us, to look into their eyes, so that we ourselves can transmit a message to them, only that unfortunately, we have no message to give,” the author writes in sad, yet poetic prose.
Expressing himself in his long, winding trademark sentences full of apocalypse but without full stops, he says it comes as a shock when he “detects the horrific story of these new angels that stand before me, the story that they are sacrifices, sacrifices: and not for us, but because of us, for every single one of us, because of every single one of us, angels without wings and angels without a message, and all the while knowing that there is war, war and only war, war in nature, war in society, and this war is being waged not only with weapons, not only with torture, not only with destruction: of course, this is one end of the scale, but this war proceeds at the opposite of the scale as well, because one single bad word is enough.”
When the Nobel judges announced the award for Krasznahorkai in October, they described the 71-year-old as “a great epic writer” whose work “is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess.”
“Krasznahorkai’s work can be seen as part of a Central European tradition," the Nobel Prize organization said. ”Important features are pessimism and apocalypse, but also humor and unpredictability."
His novels include “Satantango,” “The Melancholy of Resistance,” “War and War,” “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming” and “Herscht 07769.”
Last year’s winner was South Korean author Han Kang. The 2023 winner was Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work includes a seven-book epic made up of a single sentence.
Meanwhile, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Kristian Harpviken, said Saturday that Venezuelan Peace Prize laureate and opposition leader María Corina Machado will come to Oslo this week to receive her award in person.
The 58-year-old, who won for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since January.
Harpviken told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that Machado was expected to personally pick up the prize on Wednesday.
“I spoke with the Peace Prize winner last night, and she will come to Oslo,” Harpviken said, according to NRK.
The Nobel Prize award ceremonies will be held Wednesday on the Dec. 10 anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. The award ceremony for peace is in Oslo and the other ceremonies are in Stockholm.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday Dec. 7, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday Dec. 7, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, is greeted by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, after his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday Dec. 7, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday Dec. 7, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)
FILE - The Nobel medal in physiology or medicine presented to Charles M. Rice is displayed, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)
László Krasznahorkai, laureate in literature, speaks during the signing of the Nobel chair at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)
