Clemson Visits Smith Center Tuesday

Tuesday, January 16

Chapel Hill

7:00 PM

North Carolina

No. 20 Clemson

Theo Pinson

Photo by: J.D. Lyon Jr.

January 15, 2018 | Men's Basketball

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• Carolina plays host to Clemson on Tuesday, Jan. 16th, at 7 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 14-4 overall, 3-2 in the ACC. The Tigers are 15-2, 4-1. UNC is 15th in the AP poll and is tied for 14th in the coaches' poll. Clemson is No. 20 in AP and 18 in the coaches' poll.
• Carolina has won two in a row – a 96-66 home win over Boston College on 1/9 and a 69-68 win at Notre Dame on 1/13. Clemson opened ACC play with three straight wins, then split a pair of games last week with a loss at NC State and a home win over Miami.
• The win at Notre Dame moved Roy Williams past Gary Williams with 76 ACC road wins behind Mike Krzyzewski (172) and Dean Smith (133).
• The teams are ranked ninth (UNC) and 15th (Clemson) by KenPom.com and are KenPom's 11th- and 12th-most efficient defenses, respectively. Offensively, UNC is 21st and the Tigers are 43rd.
• The Tar Heels have won 13 straight home ACC games.
• Carolina plays host to Georgia Tech on Saturday. This is the only week the Tar Heels play two ACC home games this season.
• Luke Maye (18.2) and Joel Berry II (17.4) lead Carolina in scoring. The last time two Tar Heels averaged 17 points or more in the same season was 1983-84, when Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) were UNC's top scoring duo.
• Berry is third in the ACC in free throw percentage (.891), fourth in three-pointers per game (2.7) and sixth in scoring. Maye is second in the league in rebounding (10.8), fourth in scoring and ninth in field goal percentage (.512).
• Berry, the 2017 Final Four Most Outstanding Player, is tied for 31st in UNC scoring with 1993 Final Four MOP Donald Williams. Both have 1,492 points. Berry needs eight points to become the 31st Tar Heel to score 1,500.
• Luke Maye leads the ACC and is seventh in the country in defensive rebounds (8.2), 10th in double-doubles (10) and 11th in rebounding (10.8).
• Maye was named the ACC Player of the Week for the third time this season for his performances against Boston College and Notre Dame. The junior from Huntersville, N.C., scored 50 points, grabbed 29 rebounds, and made 21 of 34 shots from the floor (.618) in the two wins.
• Maye is the 18th Tar Heel to earn three or more ACC Player of the Week honors in one season (since the award began in 1969-70).
• The win at Notre Dame was the 830th for Roy Williams, who ties Mt. St. Mary's Jim Phelan for seventh place in wins by a Division I head coach. Jim Calhoun is sixth with 873.
• Joel Berry II and Luke Maye are among 25 mid-season candidates for the John R. Wooden Award presented by Wendy's.
• Maye is one of five players who are on the mid-season list who were not among the 50 players on the preseason watch list.
• Carolina is one of four schools that have two players on the mid-season Wooden Award list; Berry and Maye are among the five ACC players on the list.
• Berry is one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award (Tyler Hansbrough won the award in 2009).

THE RPI
• Carolina is No. 5 in the nation in the NCAA's RPI behind Duke, Oklahoma, Virginia and Villanova. Clemson is seventh.
• Carolina's strength of schedule is the second-toughest in the country behind only Temple. UNC's non-conference schedule was the 10th most difficult in the nation. (UNC went 11-2).
• Carolina's first 18 opponents have an average RPI of 88, which is the highest in the country.

TV AFFILIATES FOR UNC-CLEMSON
ACC Network Extra (subject to blackout)
FOX Sports South
FOX Sports Sun
FOX Sports Midwest Plus
YES
NBC Sports Washington
NESN
AT&T Sportsnet Pittsburgh
SportsTime Ohio (delay broadcast at midnight)
FOX Sports Detroit Plus
FOX Sports North Plus
FOX Sports Wisconsin
FOX Sports Southwest Plus
FOX Sports Prime Ticket
FOX Sports San Diego
AT&T Sportsnet Rocky Mtn
Root Sports Northwest

UNC-CLEMSON SERIES
• Carolina leads the series, 131-20. The 131 wins are tied for the fourth most by UNC against any opponent behind Wake Forest, NC State and Duke.
• Carolina has won nine in a row and 19 out of 20 in the series. The lone loss in that span came on 1/13/2010 at Clemson.
• Carolina is 58-0 at home, including 27-0 in the Smith Center. The 58 wins are the longest home winning streak against an opponent in NCAA history. Princeton (52) over Brown is the only other NCAA streak of 50 or more games (that streak ended in 2003). Marquette (36) over Milwaukee is the second-longest active home court streak over an opponent.
• The 58 wins include four in the Indoor Athletic Court, 14 in Woollen Gym, 13 in Carmichael Auditorium and 27 in the Smith Center.
• The two teams have played 17 previous games (at all sites) when both teams were ranked in the AP poll. UNC is 15-2 in those games (Clemson wins in 1977 and 2010, both in Littlejohn Coliseum).
• This is the first game in which both teams are ranked in the AP poll since 1/13/10, when No. 24 Clemson beat No. 12 UNC, 83-64, in Littlejohn Coliseum.
• This is the first time both teams are ranked in the AP poll in a game in the Smith Center since 1/21/09 when No. 5 UNC beat No. 10 Clemson, 94-70.
• Roy Williams is 19-2 against Clemson. He has coached all 21 times against the Tigers as UNC's head coach.
• Carolina has played four of its 19 overtime games in the Roy Williams era against Clemson. That is more than any other opponent. Williams' UNC teams have played two overtime games against Duke, Florida State and Virginia Tech.
• Four of the last 14 games have gone to overtime. Prior to 2008, the teams had not played an overtime game since 1978.

LAST YEAR IN CLEMSON (1/3/17)
UNC 89, CLEMSON 86 (OT)
• Joel Berry II scored 23 of his 31 points in the second half and overtime in Carolina's 89-86 win at Clemson.
• Kenny Williams scored six of his 11 points and six of UNC's 12 points in overtime.
• Williams made both ends of a 1-and-1 with 17 seconds to play in overtime with the Tar Heels leading 85-83.
• Berry set career highs in points (31), field goals (12) and 3FGs (7) and minutes (41).
• Kennedy Meeks posted his third straight double-figure rebound game, tied his career high with 16 boards and had a career-best 10 offensive rebounds.
• Tar Heels had a 23-3 edge in second chance points. UNC grabbed 23 offensive boards to Clemson's 22 defensive.
• Berry's 31 points were the most by a Tar Heel at Clemson since Wayne Ellington went for 36 in an overtime win in 2008.
• Clemson shot 53.3 from the floor in the first half, but only 15 of 38 (39.4 percent) in second half and extra period.
• Berry scored 19 of UNC's 23 points from 14:07 to 6:39 in the second half.

GAME 18: UNC 69, NOTRE DAME 68
• Joel Berry II made two free throws with 7.1 seconds to play and UNC withstood two last-second shot attempts by Notre Dame to beat the Irish, 69-68.
• Notre Dame went ahead 66-60 with 5:58 to play after back-to-back three-pointers by Nikola Djogo, but the Tar Heels held the Irish without another field goal.
• UNC out-scored Notre Dame, 9-2, over the final 5:57.
• Carolina held Notre Dame to just 34.8 percent shooting from the floor, the Irish's lowest percentage in ACC play to date this year.
• The Irish controlled the boards. UNC came into the game No. 1 in the nation in rebounds per game and rebound margin, but Notre Dame out-rebounded UNC, 45-37.
• Notre Dame grabbed 20 offensive boards, which led to eight more possessions than UNC.
• UNC had seven fewer offensive rebounds, but scored one less second-chance point (17-18).
• It was the second time this season UNC was out-rebounded (Michigan State).
• Carolina tied its season-low for turnovers with seven (also vs. UNI and Florida State)
• Luke Maye led UNC with 18 points, 11 rebounds, three assists, three steals (tied his career high) and no turnovers. It was his second straight double-double and 10th in 18 games.
• Theo Pinson had 13 points, seven rebounds, four assists and no turnovers. It was his second game in a row with no turnovers.
• Freshman Sterling Manley had seven points and four rebounds in 10 minutes.

TRENDING...
• Luke Maye has led UNC in both scoring and rebounding in three of the first five ACC games (Wake Forest, BC and Notre Dame). Maye has led in both categories seven times this season.
• Theo Pinson scored 21 points with 15 rebounds, nine assists and no turnovers in UNC's wins over Boston College and Notre Dame last week.
• Carolina is 11-1 when Pinson has more assists than turnovers and 9-0 when he has five or more assists.
• Pinson is averaging 5.8 rebounds in UNC's wins and 3.3 in the losses. He has an assist-error ratio of 2.4 in the wins and has nine assists and 12 turnovers in the losses.
• Joel Berry II has scored the winning points in two of UNC's three ACC wins this season. He hit the game-winning shot with 11 seconds to play against Wake Forest and made two free throws for a 69-68 win at Notre Dame.
• Berry has made at least three three-pointers in eight of the last nine games and two or more in the last nine. That is the longest streak of games with multiple threes in his career.
• Sterling Manley has 26 points and 21 rebounds in 48 minutes in the last four games.
• Maye has made 10 or more field goals five times this season – 13 vs. Boston College, 11 vs. UNI, Arkansas and Michigan and 10 at Davidson. Last year, the Tar Heels 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. Berry has also made 10 field goals twice this year.

10 OR MORE FIELD GOALS IN A GAME, 2017-18
Luke Maye – 13 vs. Boston College
Luke Maye – 11 vs. UNI
Luke Maye – 11 vs. Arkansas
Luke Maye – 11 vs. Michigan
Luke Maye – 10 at Davidson
Joel Berry II – 10 at Stanford
Joel Berry II – 10 at Florida State

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 Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (44.2) and rebound margin (12.2).
• Carolina's rebound margin of 12.2 is 0.1 behind last year when UNC set a school record at 12.3 per game.
• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin four previous times in its history – three of those four seasons have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17 under Williams and the undefeated season in 1956-57).
• Roy Williams' teams have finished in the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in 14 of his previous 29 seasons as a head coach, including ninth, ninth and first in the last three seasons.
• On the offensive end, Carolina is fourth in the country in rebounding their own missed shots. UNC gets 37.9 percent of their own missed shots. Duke, Cincinnati and Syracuse are the only teams rebounding a greater percentage of their own misses.
• After Notre Dame grabbed 20 of their 44 missed shots, Carolina fell to 12th in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels are rebounding 76.8 percent of the opponents' missed field goals and free throws.
• Carolina is hitting 7.9 three-pointers per game, which is the second most in school history. The record is 8.3 per game in 2002-03. Last year, UNC made 7.1 per game.

MOST THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE PER GAME
8.3 in 2002-03
7.9 in 2017-18
7.8 in 1994-95
7.6 in 2012-13
7.6 in 2001-02

• Carolina has scored 85 or more points 11
times (all wins), 90 or more points six times,
100 points twice and has averaged just 62.2
points in its four losses.
• The Tar Heels have shot 50 percent from the floor seven times. UNC is shooting 46.0 percent for the season. That includes 49.4 percent in its 14 wins and 33.2 percent in the four losses.
• Carolina has scored 28.6 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That's the second-highest percentage in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as UNC's head coach.

SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs (last 15 seasons)
29.3 percent – 2012-13
28.6 percent – 2017-18
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05
25.3 percent – 2016-17

• The opponents have out-scored UNC in points off turnovers in seven of the last 11 games, including an 100-66 edge in the last seven games.
• The Tar Heels have made three more free throws (267) than the opponents have taken.

IN THE POLLS
• Carolina is 15th in the Associated Press poll and is tied for 14th in the USA Today/Coaches poll, which were released on 1/15.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 72nd consecutive week (last four weeks in 2013-14, all 19 weeks in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 and the first 11 weeks this season).
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 888th time, most in college basketball history.