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University of North Carolina Athletics
Sunday, December 3
Chapel Hill
2:00 PM
North Carolina
vs
Tulane
Kenny Williams
Tar Heels Host Tulane In Sunday Matinee
December 2, 2017 | Men's Basketball
• The Tar Heels are 7-1 and return to action on Sunday, Dec. 3rd, when they play host to Tulane at 2 p.m.
• Last year, Carolina opened its national championship season with a 95-75 win over the Green Wave in New Orleans. Justin Jackson (27) and Joel Berry II (23) combined for 50 points and Kennedy Meeks had a game-high 15 rebounds to lead the Tar Heels.
• UNC is coming off an 85-75 win over Davidson in Charlotte.
• The Green Wave are 6-1. They beat Alcorn State on Nov. 29th after suffering their only loss of the season to George State on Nov. 26th.
• Carolina is ranked 13th by the Associated Press and 11th by the coaches. Tulane is unranked.
CAROLINA-TULANE SERIES
• The Tar Heels are 15-1 against Tulane with wins in the last 13 games.
• Carolina has defeated the Green Wave in each of the last two seasons – 96-72 in Chapel Hill on 12/16/15 and 95-75 in New Orleans on 11/11/16.
• Roy Williams is 2-0 vs. Tulane.
GAME EIGHT – UNC 85, DAVIDSON 75
Dec. 1 in Charlotte
• Joel Berry II scored a game-high 27 points and had four assists and only one turnover and Luke Maye posted his fourth double-double of the season with 24 points and a career-high 17 rebounds.
• Carolina grabbed a season-high 54 rebounds, had a rebound margin of 31, and scored a season-high 25 second-chance points.
• It was Carolina's largest rebound margin in a game since out-rebounding Duke by 35 (64-29) in the 2016 regular-season finale in Durham.
• Carolina won its eighth straight game over the Wildcats. UNC has out-rebounded Davidson by 113 in those eight games.
• Carolina out-scored the Wildcats 48-18 in the paint.
• Sophomore Brandon Robinson scored a career-high eight points, all in the first half.
• Freshman Sterling Manley had seven points and four rebounds. He scored six of his points in a key stretch midway through the second half when Carolina pushed its lead into double figures.
• Berry and Maye scored 20-plus points in the same game for the first time.
• It was the sixth time in eight games Maye has scored 20 or more points and the fourth time in Berry's career he scored 25 or more.
• Theo Pinson led UNC with five assists. It was the fifth time in eight games this year and the 25th time in his career he led UNC in assists.
• Berry went 7 for 7 from the free throw line, which matched his best performance from the line without a miss in his career.
• Carolina led by six at the half, then shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half. It was the fourth time in the last six games UNC has made at least half its field goal attempts in the second half.
• Carolina improved to 173-18 in Charlotte, including 12-0 in the Spectrum Center.
LUKE MAYE
• Junior forward Luke Maye leads Carolina in scoring (20.6), rebounding (10.4), field goals made and attempted (67 for 121), blocks (7) and minutes (31.9).
• Maye is second in the ACC in scoring and rebounding. Duke freshman Marvin Bagley III is first in both categories. Maye and Bagley are the only ACC players averaging 20/10.
• Maye made 10 field goals in 18 attempts against Davidson. It was the fourth time this year he made 10 or more field goals in a game (11 vs. UNI, Arkansas and Michigan). Last year, the entire roster combined to make 10 or more field goals four times in 40 games – Justin Jackson twice and Joel Berry II and Kennedy Meeks one time each.
10 OR MORE FIELD GOALS IN A GAME, 2017-18
Luke Maye– 11 vs.UNI
Luke Maye– 11 vs. Arkansas
Luke Maye– 11 vs. Michigan
Luke Maye– 10 at Davidson
10 OR MORE FIELD GOALS IN A GAME, 2016-17
Joel Berry II– 12 at Clemson
Kennedy Meeks– 11 vs. Oregon
Justin Jackson– 10 vs. Kentucky
Justin Jackson– 10 vs. Virginia Tech
• The Huntersville, N.C., native has scored 20 or more points in six of Carolina's first eight games and has 25 or more points three times.
• He is the first Tar Heel to score 20 points in six of his first eight games since Tyler Hansbrough in 2008-09.
• Maye has the most points by a Tar Heel in his first eight games since Hansbrough in 2008-09. Maye has 165 points; Hansbrough scored 185 in his first eight games.
• Prior to this season Maye scored in double figures six times with a high of 17 points.
• Maye became the first Tar Heel to score 100 points (106) and grab 50 rebounds (54) in the first five games since Antawn Jamison had 103 points and 55 rebounds in 1996-97.
• He had 28 points, 16 rebounds and five assists against Arkansas on Nov. 24th. He is the first Tar Heel to reach those figures in a game since Mitch Kupchak vs. Mercer in 1976.
• Maye has six career games in which he has 10 or more rebounds. In three of them he has grabbed 15 or more – 17 at Davidson, 16 vs. Arkansas and 15 last year vs. Florida State.
• Maye was selected to the all-tournament team in the Victory bracket at the PK80 Invitational.
FINAL FOUR MOP JOEL BERRY II
• Senior point guard Joel Berry II is second on the team in scoring with a career-high 17.0 points per game.
• Berry broke a bone in his right hand in mid-October and did not play in the season opener against UNI. He returned to practice on Nov. 12 and played 30 minutes in the win over Bucknell on Nov. 15.
• He led all scorers with 27 at Davidson. It was his 15th career 20-point game and fourth with at least 25.
• He made four three-pointers at Davidson, the third time this year and the 14th time in his career he made at least four three-pointers (including the 2016 and 2017 NCAA championship games).
• Berry made five three-pointers and scored 29 points (his second-highest career output) in the win at Stanford on Nov. 20.
• Berry has 1,315 points. He passed Joseph Forte, George Karl and Kevin Madden for 44th in UNC history in scoring.
MOST POINTS – UNC CAREER
41. Rusty Clark – 1,339, 1966-69
42. Pete Brennan – 1,334, 1955-58
43. Al Lifson – 1,322, 1952-55
44. Joel Berry II – 1315, 2014-active
45. Kevin Madden – 1296, 1985-90
46. George Karl – 1293, 1970-73
47. Joseph Forte – 1290, 1999-01
• Berry has made 191 three-pointers, ninth most at UNC. Marcus Paige (first) and Jeff Lebo (sixth) are the only Tar Heels with more career threes who played most of their minutes at the point.
MOST THREE-POINTERS — UNC career
1. Marcus Paige – 299, 2012-16
2. Shammond Williams – 233, 1994-98
3. Wayne Ellington – 229, 2006-09
4. Rashad McCants – 221, 2002-05
4. Donald Williams – 221, 1991-95
6. Jeff Lebo – 211, 1985-89
7. Hubert Davis – 197, 1988-92
8. Dante Calabria – 193, 1992-96
9. Joel Berry II – 191, 2014-active
10. Reggie Bullock – 188, 2010-13
• Berry was the Most Outstanding Player at the 2017 Final Four and the Most Valuable Player at the 2016 ACC Tournament. James Worthy and Berry are the only Tar Heels to win both of those awards.
• Berry is a preseason first-team All-America by ESPN.com, second-team All-America by USA Today and Sporting News' third team selection.
• Berry is on the preseason watch list for the John R. Wooden Award, the Oscar Robertson Award (USBWA Player of the Year) and the Naismith Award (all for National Player of the Year) and the Bob Cousy Award (best point guard).
• The Apopka, Fla., native also was a preseason first-team All-ACC selection and received the second-most votes for preseason player of the year (tied with Duke's Grayson Allen behind Notre Dame's Bonzie Colson).
• Berry has scored 857 more points than any Tar Heel on the roster (Theo Pinson is second with 458).
• He is the only Tar Heel in history to earn All-Final Four honors twice (2016 and 2017).
• He became the seventh player overall and the first since UCLA's Bill Walton in 1972-73 to score at least 20 points in consecutive national championship games.
THEO
• Senior Theo Pinson leads the Tar Heels in assists (33) and blocked shots (tied with Luke Maye with seven).
• No Tar Heel has ever led the team in both assists and blocked shots for an entire season.
SMITH CENTER
• The Tulane game is Carolina's 465th in the Dean E. Smith Center. The Tar Heels are 396-68 overall and 196-15 against non-ACC teams.
• UNC is 201-27 in the Smith Center under Roy Williams.
RANKINGS
• Carolina is No. 13 in the Nov. 27 Associated Press and No. 11 in the USA Today/Coaches polls.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 881st time, most in college basketball history, and the 663rd time in the top 10, second-most behind Kentucky.
• This marks the 55th season (out of 70) the Tar Heels have been ranked in the top 10.
• Carolina was ranked No. 9 in the preseason AP poll. This was the 12th time in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as head coach the Tar Heels entered the year ranked in the top 10. UNC has finished the year in the AP top 10 nine times in Williams' first 14 seasons.
CAMERON JOHNSON ON THE MEND
• Cameron Johnson is out four to six weeks after undergoing surgery on Nov. 15 to repair a torn meniscus.
• Johnson suffered the injury in practice on Nov. 13. He did not play in the season opener against Northern Iowa after spraining his neck in practice on 11/7.
• He led UNC with 18 points in 16 minutes in the "jamboree" vs. ECU, UNCG and UNCW on Nov. 5 and had 11 in the exhibition against Barton on Oct. 27.
• Johnson averaged 11.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game last year as a Pitt Panther. He shot 44.7 percent from three-point range.
• Johnson matched his career high with 24 points against the Tar Heels in the Smith Center on 1/31/17.
CAROLINA ON THE ALL-TIME WINS LISTS
• Carolina is second all-time in NCAA winning percentage and third in wins.
• Carolina has won 2,213 games, third behind Kentucky and Kansas. Only four schools have won at least 2,000 games.
• Carolina's winning percentage of .739 is second behind Kentucky. Only five schools have a winning percentage of at least .700.
• Carolina is first in Final Fours with 20.
• Carolina is second in NCAA Tournament appearances with 48.
• Carolina is third in NCAA championships with six.
• Carolina is second in NCAA Tournament games with 168.
• Carolina is second in NCAA Tournament winning percentage at .732.
• Carolina is first in ACC regular-season championships with 31.
• Carolina is first in ACC victories with 672.
• Carolina is second in ACC Tournament wins with 97.
• Carolina is second in ACC Tournament winning percentage at .683.
• Carolina is first in ACC Tournament championship game appearances with 34 and second in titles with 18.
• Carolina is first in NBA first-round draft picks with 49 and third in overall NBA draft picks with 112.
• Last year, Carolina opened its national championship season with a 95-75 win over the Green Wave in New Orleans. Justin Jackson (27) and Joel Berry II (23) combined for 50 points and Kennedy Meeks had a game-high 15 rebounds to lead the Tar Heels.
• UNC is coming off an 85-75 win over Davidson in Charlotte.
• The Green Wave are 6-1. They beat Alcorn State on Nov. 29th after suffering their only loss of the season to George State on Nov. 26th.
• Carolina is ranked 13th by the Associated Press and 11th by the coaches. Tulane is unranked.
CAROLINA-TULANE SERIES
• The Tar Heels are 15-1 against Tulane with wins in the last 13 games.
• Carolina has defeated the Green Wave in each of the last two seasons – 96-72 in Chapel Hill on 12/16/15 and 95-75 in New Orleans on 11/11/16.
• Roy Williams is 2-0 vs. Tulane.
GAME EIGHT – UNC 85, DAVIDSON 75
Dec. 1 in Charlotte
• Joel Berry II scored a game-high 27 points and had four assists and only one turnover and Luke Maye posted his fourth double-double of the season with 24 points and a career-high 17 rebounds.
• Carolina grabbed a season-high 54 rebounds, had a rebound margin of 31, and scored a season-high 25 second-chance points.
• It was Carolina's largest rebound margin in a game since out-rebounding Duke by 35 (64-29) in the 2016 regular-season finale in Durham.
• Carolina won its eighth straight game over the Wildcats. UNC has out-rebounded Davidson by 113 in those eight games.
• Carolina out-scored the Wildcats 48-18 in the paint.
• Sophomore Brandon Robinson scored a career-high eight points, all in the first half.
• Freshman Sterling Manley had seven points and four rebounds. He scored six of his points in a key stretch midway through the second half when Carolina pushed its lead into double figures.
• Berry and Maye scored 20-plus points in the same game for the first time.
• It was the sixth time in eight games Maye has scored 20 or more points and the fourth time in Berry's career he scored 25 or more.
• Theo Pinson led UNC with five assists. It was the fifth time in eight games this year and the 25th time in his career he led UNC in assists.
• Berry went 7 for 7 from the free throw line, which matched his best performance from the line without a miss in his career.
• Carolina led by six at the half, then shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half. It was the fourth time in the last six games UNC has made at least half its field goal attempts in the second half.
• Carolina improved to 173-18 in Charlotte, including 12-0 in the Spectrum Center.
LUKE MAYE
• Junior forward Luke Maye leads Carolina in scoring (20.6), rebounding (10.4), field goals made and attempted (67 for 121), blocks (7) and minutes (31.9).
• Maye is second in the ACC in scoring and rebounding. Duke freshman Marvin Bagley III is first in both categories. Maye and Bagley are the only ACC players averaging 20/10.
• Maye made 10 field goals in 18 attempts against Davidson. It was the fourth time this year he made 10 or more field goals in a game (11 vs. UNI, Arkansas and Michigan). Last year, the entire roster combined to make 10 or more field goals four times in 40 games – Justin Jackson twice and Joel Berry II and Kennedy Meeks one time each.
10 OR MORE FIELD GOALS IN A GAME, 2017-18
Luke Maye– 11 vs.UNI
Luke Maye– 11 vs. Arkansas
Luke Maye– 11 vs. Michigan
Luke Maye– 10 at Davidson
10 OR MORE FIELD GOALS IN A GAME, 2016-17
Joel Berry II– 12 at Clemson
Kennedy Meeks– 11 vs. Oregon
Justin Jackson– 10 vs. Kentucky
Justin Jackson– 10 vs. Virginia Tech
• The Huntersville, N.C., native has scored 20 or more points in six of Carolina's first eight games and has 25 or more points three times.
• He is the first Tar Heel to score 20 points in six of his first eight games since Tyler Hansbrough in 2008-09.
• Maye has the most points by a Tar Heel in his first eight games since Hansbrough in 2008-09. Maye has 165 points; Hansbrough scored 185 in his first eight games.
• Prior to this season Maye scored in double figures six times with a high of 17 points.
• Maye became the first Tar Heel to score 100 points (106) and grab 50 rebounds (54) in the first five games since Antawn Jamison had 103 points and 55 rebounds in 1996-97.
• He had 28 points, 16 rebounds and five assists against Arkansas on Nov. 24th. He is the first Tar Heel to reach those figures in a game since Mitch Kupchak vs. Mercer in 1976.
• Maye has six career games in which he has 10 or more rebounds. In three of them he has grabbed 15 or more – 17 at Davidson, 16 vs. Arkansas and 15 last year vs. Florida State.
• Maye was selected to the all-tournament team in the Victory bracket at the PK80 Invitational.
FINAL FOUR MOP JOEL BERRY II
• Senior point guard Joel Berry II is second on the team in scoring with a career-high 17.0 points per game.
• Berry broke a bone in his right hand in mid-October and did not play in the season opener against UNI. He returned to practice on Nov. 12 and played 30 minutes in the win over Bucknell on Nov. 15.
• He led all scorers with 27 at Davidson. It was his 15th career 20-point game and fourth with at least 25.
• He made four three-pointers at Davidson, the third time this year and the 14th time in his career he made at least four three-pointers (including the 2016 and 2017 NCAA championship games).
• Berry made five three-pointers and scored 29 points (his second-highest career output) in the win at Stanford on Nov. 20.
• Berry has 1,315 points. He passed Joseph Forte, George Karl and Kevin Madden for 44th in UNC history in scoring.
MOST POINTS – UNC CAREER
41. Rusty Clark – 1,339, 1966-69
42. Pete Brennan – 1,334, 1955-58
43. Al Lifson – 1,322, 1952-55
44. Joel Berry II – 1315, 2014-active
45. Kevin Madden – 1296, 1985-90
46. George Karl – 1293, 1970-73
47. Joseph Forte – 1290, 1999-01
• Berry has made 191 three-pointers, ninth most at UNC. Marcus Paige (first) and Jeff Lebo (sixth) are the only Tar Heels with more career threes who played most of their minutes at the point.
MOST THREE-POINTERS — UNC career
1. Marcus Paige – 299, 2012-16
2. Shammond Williams – 233, 1994-98
3. Wayne Ellington – 229, 2006-09
4. Rashad McCants – 221, 2002-05
4. Donald Williams – 221, 1991-95
6. Jeff Lebo – 211, 1985-89
7. Hubert Davis – 197, 1988-92
8. Dante Calabria – 193, 1992-96
9. Joel Berry II – 191, 2014-active
10. Reggie Bullock – 188, 2010-13
• Berry was the Most Outstanding Player at the 2017 Final Four and the Most Valuable Player at the 2016 ACC Tournament. James Worthy and Berry are the only Tar Heels to win both of those awards.
• Berry is a preseason first-team All-America by ESPN.com, second-team All-America by USA Today and Sporting News' third team selection.
• Berry is on the preseason watch list for the John R. Wooden Award, the Oscar Robertson Award (USBWA Player of the Year) and the Naismith Award (all for National Player of the Year) and the Bob Cousy Award (best point guard).
• The Apopka, Fla., native also was a preseason first-team All-ACC selection and received the second-most votes for preseason player of the year (tied with Duke's Grayson Allen behind Notre Dame's Bonzie Colson).
• Berry has scored 857 more points than any Tar Heel on the roster (Theo Pinson is second with 458).
• He is the only Tar Heel in history to earn All-Final Four honors twice (2016 and 2017).
• He became the seventh player overall and the first since UCLA's Bill Walton in 1972-73 to score at least 20 points in consecutive national championship games.
THEO
• Senior Theo Pinson leads the Tar Heels in assists (33) and blocked shots (tied with Luke Maye with seven).
• No Tar Heel has ever led the team in both assists and blocked shots for an entire season.
SMITH CENTER
• The Tulane game is Carolina's 465th in the Dean E. Smith Center. The Tar Heels are 396-68 overall and 196-15 against non-ACC teams.
• UNC is 201-27 in the Smith Center under Roy Williams.
RANKINGS
• Carolina is No. 13 in the Nov. 27 Associated Press and No. 11 in the USA Today/Coaches polls.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 881st time, most in college basketball history, and the 663rd time in the top 10, second-most behind Kentucky.
• This marks the 55th season (out of 70) the Tar Heels have been ranked in the top 10.
• Carolina was ranked No. 9 in the preseason AP poll. This was the 12th time in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as head coach the Tar Heels entered the year ranked in the top 10. UNC has finished the year in the AP top 10 nine times in Williams' first 14 seasons.
CAMERON JOHNSON ON THE MEND
• Cameron Johnson is out four to six weeks after undergoing surgery on Nov. 15 to repair a torn meniscus.
• Johnson suffered the injury in practice on Nov. 13. He did not play in the season opener against Northern Iowa after spraining his neck in practice on 11/7.
• He led UNC with 18 points in 16 minutes in the "jamboree" vs. ECU, UNCG and UNCW on Nov. 5 and had 11 in the exhibition against Barton on Oct. 27.
• Johnson averaged 11.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game last year as a Pitt Panther. He shot 44.7 percent from three-point range.
• Johnson matched his career high with 24 points against the Tar Heels in the Smith Center on 1/31/17.
CAROLINA ON THE ALL-TIME WINS LISTS
• Carolina is second all-time in NCAA winning percentage and third in wins.
• Carolina has won 2,213 games, third behind Kentucky and Kansas. Only four schools have won at least 2,000 games.
• Carolina's winning percentage of .739 is second behind Kentucky. Only five schools have a winning percentage of at least .700.
• Carolina is first in Final Fours with 20.
• Carolina is second in NCAA Tournament appearances with 48.
• Carolina is third in NCAA championships with six.
• Carolina is second in NCAA Tournament games with 168.
• Carolina is second in NCAA Tournament winning percentage at .732.
• Carolina is first in ACC regular-season championships with 31.
• Carolina is first in ACC victories with 672.
• Carolina is second in ACC Tournament wins with 97.
• Carolina is second in ACC Tournament winning percentage at .683.
• Carolina is first in ACC Tournament championship game appearances with 34 and second in titles with 18.
• Carolina is first in NBA first-round draft picks with 49 and third in overall NBA draft picks with 112.
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