Tar Heels Head To Syracuse

GAME 29, ACC GAME 16, ROAD GAME 11
• The Tar Heels are 21-7 overall, 10-5 in the ACC. Carolina is 12-2 at home and 9-5 away from the Smith Center this season. That includes a 6-4 record in road games and 3-1 at neutral sites.
• Carolina has won five in a row with wins over Pitt, Duke, at NC State, Notre Dame and at Louisville. The five-game win streak matches UNC's longest of the season (done twice in non-conference play).
• Syracuse is 18-9 overall, 7-7 in the ACC and 13-4 in the Carrier Dome (4-3 in ACC play). The Orange has won three of its last four games, including a 62-55 win at Miami on 2/17.
• Carolina has road wins at Stanford, Davidson, Tennessee, Notre Dame, NC State and Louisville.
• UNC (10-5) is in third place in the ACC, one-half game behind Duke (10-4) and one-half game ahead of Clemson (9-5).
• Carolina plays on the road at seven of the other top eight teams in the ACC standings (and road games at two of the bottom six teams in the standings).
• Carolina is 10-5 in league play with three games to go. The Tar Heels will finish with a winning record in ACC regular-season play for the 58th time in 65 seasons (the 13th time in 15 seasons under head coach Roy Williams).
• This is the 42nd time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels have won at least 10 ACC regular-season games.

SCHEDULE NOTES
• Carolina is No. 5 in the NCAA's RPI (as of 2/20). UNC's Carolina's opponents have an average RPI of 83, which is the fifth highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is the fourth-most difficult in the nation.
• Carolina has nine wins over current Quadrant I opponents, tied with Kansas for the most in the country. Auburn, Villanova and Virginia are tied for third with eight.
• The Tar Heels' non-conference strength of schedule is the 12th most difficult. It is the highest-rated non-conference schedule in the ACC.

strength of schedule – all schools
1– Vanderbilt; 2– Kansas; 3– Kentucky; 4– North Carolina; 5– Xavier

RANKINGS
• Carolina is ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press poll (up four spots from last week and up 11 spots in the last two weeks). This is the 77th consecutive week and the NCAA-record 893rd time overall the Tar Heels are ranked in the AP poll.
• Carolina is also 10th in the coaches poll.
• This is the 667th time the Tar Heels are ranked in the top 10.
• Carolina has five wins this season over teams in this week's poll – No. 5 Duke, No. 15 Clemson, No. 16 Ohio State, No. 17 Michigan and No. 19 Tennessee. UNC's losses include the No. 1 and 2 teams – Virginia and Michigan State – and No. 25 Florida State.
• Carolina is seventh in KenPom's overall rankings – including seventh in offensive efficiency and 31st in defensive efficiency. Syracuse is 45th overall in KenPom – 109th in offense and 11th in defense.
• Carolina's first 28 opponents average the eighth-best offensive efficiency and the second-best defensive efficiency in the nation.
• Carolina and Oklahoma are the only teams whose opponents rank in the top 10 in the country in efficiency on both ends of the court.
• Carolina's KenPom offensive efficiency of 121.6 is its second highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1).
• The Tar Heels have played seven games against teams who are in the top 25 nationally in defensive efficiency. UNC is 4-3 in those games (wins over Tennessee, Clemson, Michigan and Louisville; losses to Virginia, Michigan State and Clemson).

AWARD LISTS
• Joel Berry II is one of 10 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award as the nation's top point guard. UNC is the only school with three Cousy Award winners – Raymond Felton (2005), Ty Lawson (2009) and Kendall Marshall (2012).
• Luke Maye is one of 10 finalists for the Karl Malone Award as the nation's top power forward.
• Maye is one of 20 players on the John R. Wooden Award (national player of the year) late-season watch list. Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III are the only ACC players on the list.
• Berry and Maye are among 30 players on the Naismith Trophy late-season list (announced 2/14). Berry, Maye, Bagley and Virginia's Kyle Guy represent the ACC. UNC is one of four schools (with Arizona, Purdue and Villanova) with two players on the Naismith list.
• Maye and Berry rank fourth and fifth, respectively, in scoring in the ACC. This is the first time UNC has two of the top five scorers in the ACC since 2012 when Harrison Barnes (17.1 ppg) was third and ACC Player of the Year Tyler Zeller (16.3) was fifth.

TWENTY WINS AGAIN
• Carolina has won at least 20 games for the 60th time in school history and the 14th time in 15 seasons under Roy Williams.
• Williams' teams have won 20 or more games in 28 of his 30 seasons as a head coach and 19 or more in all 30.
• This is the 14th consecutive season UNC has won at least 20 games.

UNC-SYRACUSE SERIES
• Carolina leads the series against Syracuse, 9-4.
• The Tar Heels are 5-1 against the Orange since Syracuse joined the ACC prior to the 2013-14 season.
• The Tar Heels have won five in a row over the previous three seasons, averaging 84.0 points in those games.
• Carolina is 2-1 against the Orange in the Carrier Dome. UNC won, 84-73, in its most recent game in Syracuse on 1/9/16.
• The Tar Heels are 8-3 in games played in the Carrier Dome, including 5-1 in NCAA Tournament games in 1983 (1-1), 1997 (2-0) and 2005 (2-0).
• Carolina advanced to the 2005 Final Four and won the national championship by defeating Villanova and Wisconsin in the Carrier Dome.
• UNC beat the Orange, 85-68, in Chapel Hill in the only meeting last season. Isaiah Hicks scored 20 points and Justin Jackson (19/10) and Kennedy Meeks (15/12) had point-rebound double-doubles.
• Carolina shot 56.7 percent from the floor in the second half, out-rebounded the Orange by 20, scored 26 points off turnovers and 20 second-chance points.
• Roy Williams is 5-2 against Syracuse as UNC's head coach. That includes a 5-1 record since SU joined the ACC and an 87-71 Syracuse win on 11/20/2009 in Madison Square Garden in New York in the Coaches vs. Cancer championship game.
• Williams is 6-4 all-time against Syracuse, including 1-2 while the head coach at Kansas.
• Jim Boeheim has been the Syracuse coach in 11 of the previous 13 games in the series.

GAME 28: UNC 93, LOUISVILLE 76
• The 93-76 win was Carolina's fifth win in as many games, was its fifth in seven games against UL, and the first ever for UNC in Louisville against the Cardinals.
• Carolina scored 90 or more points for the 10th time this season (UNC is 9-1 in those games), the fifth time in ACC play this year and the third time in the last five games (96 vs. Pitt, 96 at NC State and 93 at Louisville).
• The 17-point margin of victory was the largest over Louisville in the KFC Yum! Center (this was Louisville's 148th game in the arena, which opened in 2010). The largest previous margins of victory by an opponent over Louisville in the Yum! Center were 16 points by Virginia on 1/30/2016 (63-47) and 2/6/2017 (71-55).
• The 93 points were the most scored against Louisville in any game since UNC beat the Cardinals, 93-84, on 11/24/2013, in Uncasville, Conn.
• The 93 points were the most scored by any opponent at Louisville since Charlotte scored 106 at Freedom Hall on 2/11/2001. The previous high for an opponent in the Yum! Center was 90 by Virginia Tech in a 94-90 UL win on 2/18/2017.
• The Tar Heels shot 51.4 percent from the floor in the second half. That was the sixth time in the last seven games UNC shot 50 percent or better in the second half.
• UNC has made 128 for 229 from the floor in the second half in the last seven games – 55.9 percent.

2nd Half Field Goal Percentage
63.0 vs. NC State (Jan. 27)
64.3 at Clemson
52.9 vs. Pitt
34.9 vs. Duke
78.1 at NC State
56.7 vs. Notre Dame
51.4 at Louisville

• Carolina had 22 second-chance points. That was the third time in the five-game winning streak UNC had at least 21 second-chance points.
• Joel Berry II scored a game-high 23 points, tied his career high with eight rebounds and had four assists and a key blocked shot late in the game. The block was his 25th career block.
• It was Berry's 10th 20-point game this year and the 23rd of his career.
• Berry made five three-pointers. It was the second time this year and the seventh time in his career he made five or more threes in a game.
• Luke Maye had his 14th double-double of the season with 19 points and 13 rebounds.
• Maye made a career high four steals, which are a season high for the Tar Heels.
• Theo Pinson had 19 points, seven rebounds and five assists. UNC is 14-1 when Pinson has five or more assists.
• Kenny Williams (11) scored in double figures for the fifth game in a row.
• Cameron Johnson (12) scored in double figures for the seventh game in a row.
• Carolina is 4-0 when five or more players score in double figures.

LUUUUKE
• Luke Maye leads UNC with 18.4 points and 10.5 rebounds per game.
• Maye is the only player in the league to win ACC Player of the Week honors three times this season.
• Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III are the only players in the top five in the ACC in scoring (4th) and rebounding (2nd) and the top 10 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage (7th).
• Maye is on pace to become the sixth Tar Heel to average a double-double in the last 40 years with Brice Johnson (2016), John Henson (2011), Tyler Hansbrough (2008), Sean May (2005) and Antawn Jamison (1998).
• Maye is the first Tar Heel to have two 30-point/15-rebound games in the same season since Mitch Kupchak in 1976. Maye, Kupchak, Lennie Rosenbluth and Billy Cunningham are the only players to accomplish that multiple times in the same season.
• Maye is seventh in KenPom's national player of the year statistical rankings.
• Maye also averages 2.5 assists. Since 1968, the only Tar Heels to average more points and assists were Charles Scott (twice), Phil Ford, Jerry Stackhouse and Joseph Forte.
• Luke Maye has led UNC in both scoring and rebounding 10 times this season, including at NC State when he scored a career high 33 points and had 17 rebounds. UNC is 9-1 when Maye leads in both categories (the lone loss was at Virginia Tech).
• Maye leads UNC in blocked shots with 34. At 6-8, Maye would the shortest Tar Heel to lead the team in blocks since Danny Green (6-5) in 2006.
• Luke Maye has 14 double-doubles this year (and 15 in his career, including against Butler in the 2017 NCAA Sweet 16). He is tied for the fifth-most double-doubles in a season in the Roy Williams era.

Double-Doubles in a Season
(under Roy Williams)
23 by Brice Johnson, 2015-16
19 by Tyler Hansbrough, 2007-08
18 by John Henson, 2010-11 and 2011-12
18 by Sean May, 2004-05
14 by Luke Maye, 2017-18
14 by Tyler Zeller, 2011-12

MULTIPLE 30-Point/15-Rebound Game
(Season)
Billy Cunningham – 6 times in 1963-64
Billy Cunningham – 5 times in 1964-65
Luke Maye – 2 times in 2017-18
Mitch Kupchak – 2 times in 1975-76
Billy Cunningham – 2 times in 1962-63
Lennie Rosenbluth – 2 times in 1955-56
Lennie Rosenbluth – 2 times in 1954-55

BERRY CONTINUES TO CLIMB IN RECORDS
• Senior point guard Joel Berry II is 21st in career scoring at UNC with 1,674 points. Berry, the Most Outstanding Player in the 2017 NCAA Final Four, is 20 points behind 2009 Final Four MOP Wayne Ellington, who is 20th with 1,694 points.
• Berry is second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 243. Berry has made 70 threes in 27 games this year, the fourth-most per game in school history.

Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.59 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (70 in 27 games)
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

• Berry has attempted 651 three-pointers, second most by a Tar Heel (Paige 798).
• Berry leads the ACC in free throw shooting this year at 89.6 percent, second highest in UNC history. Shammond Williams set the record at 91.1 percent in 1997-98, which was also the last time a Tar Heel led the ACC in free throw percentage.
• Berry is the only Tar Heel to have two of the eighth-highest free throw percentages in UNC history.

Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98 (133 of 146)
.896 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (86 of 96)
.878 – Jeff Lebo, 1987-88
.877 – Marcus Paige, 2013-14
.876 – Steve Hale, 1984-85
.871 – Darrell Elston, 1973-74
.868 – York Larese, 1959-60
.867 – Joel Berry II, 2015-16

• Berry has played in 56 ACC wins (49 regular season and seven ACC Tournament). That ties Sam Perkins for the eighth most in UNC history.

200 ACC WINS FOR ROY
• Carolina's win over Notre Dame on 2/12 was the 200th ACC win for head coach Roy Williams (regular season and Tournament). He is just the fourth coach to win 200 ACC games and the third with Tar Heel ties to accomplish that.

Most Wins by a Head Coach,
ACC Regular-Season & ACC Tournament Games
470 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
422 Dean Smith North Carolina
210 Gary Williams Maryland
201 Roy Williams North Carolina
160 Frank McGuire UNC, South Carolina

NOTABLE...
• Luke Maye (18.4) and Joel Berry II (17.7) 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.
• The Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (43.3) and rebound margin (11.7), are sixth in offensive rebounds (14.0) and seventh in assists (17.9).
• The 2017 Tar Heels became the third team to lead the nation in rebound margin and win the national title (w/Michigan State 2000 and UConn 2004).

REBOUNDS PER GAME
43.3 – North Carolina
42.2 – Duke
41.6 – Texas A&M
41.5 – Bethune-Cookman
41.3 – UC Irvine

REBOUND MARGIN
11.7 – North Carolina
10.6 – Michigan State
10.2 – Wichita State
9.4 – Duke
9.2 – Gonzaga

Highest Rebound Margin in UNC History
2016-17 12.3
2017-18 11.7
2007-08 11.0
1956-57 10.8
2011-12 10.4

• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin four previous times – three of those four seasons have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17 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.
• Carolina is second in the country in rebounding its own missed shots. The Tar Heels grab 38.9 percent of their own missed shots.
• Carolina has finished first, third and fifth in the country in offensive rebounding percentage in the previous three seasons.

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING PERCENTAGE
.400 – Duke
.389 – North Carolina
.385 – Cincinnati
.373 – West Virginia
.364 – Michigan State

• Carolina is 30th in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels are rebounding 75.4 percent of the opponents' missed field goals and free throws.
• UNC is 18-2 when Kenny Williams scores in double figures and 7-2 when he makes three or more three-pointers.
• Williams had 11 points at Louisville to move past the 500-point mark for his career (508).
• Theo Pinson has 29 assists in the last five games (5.8 per game). UNC is 14-1 this season when he has five or more.
• Pinson has 107 assists and 45 turnovers (2.4) in UNC's 21 wins and 19 assists/19 turnovers in the seven losses.
• UNC is 18-3 when Pinson has more assists than turnovers (including at Clemson when he played less than two minutes) and 2-4 when he has more turnovers.
• Graduate student Cameron Johnson has scored in double figures in the last seven games, his longest such streak in ACC games. He had an 11-game double-digit scoring streak, eight of which came against non-conference opponents, at Pitt last season.
• Carolina is making 8.3 three-pointers per game, which ties the 2002-03 team for the highest per game average in school history, and is the most in the Roy Williams era. The previous high under Roy Williams was 7.6 in 2012-13 when UNC started four perimeter players over the final 13 games.

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

• Carolina has scored 29.7 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That is the highest percentage in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as UNC's head coach.

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

• Carolina is attempting 33.9 percent of its field goals from three-point range. That is the highest percentage in the Roy Williams era. The previous high was 31.7 percent in 2005-06.
• This is the fifth time in the last 15 seasons UNC attempted at least 30 percent of its field goals from three-point distance. UNC attempted 39.9 percent from beyond the arc under head coach Matt Doherty in 2002-03.
• The opponents have made 10 or more three-pointers in 18 of 28 games, including 10 of 15 in ACC play. UNC is 13-5 when the opponents make 10 or more threes.
• Carolina's opponents are scoring 41.3 percent of their points on three-pointers, the third-highest percentage against any team in the country (Liberty and Charleston Southern allow a greater percentage of points from three-point distance).
• In UNC's last three losses, Virginia Tech, NC State and Clemson scored 126 of 257 points from three-point range (49.0 percent).
• The opponents are making 10.1 three-pointers per game, the highest in a season against the Tar Heels.

OPPONENTS THREE-POINTERS PER GAME
10.1 – 2017-18
9.6 – 1995-96
8.8 – 1994-95
8.0 – 2016-17
7.9 – 1996-97

• Carolina's opponents are shooting 38.5 percent from three-point range, the third-highest percentage in a season by the opponents (39.6 in 1982-83 with the line at 17 feet, 7 inches; 38.7 in 1992-92 at 19'9"; and 38.4 with the current distance at 20'9").
• Virginia Tech, NC State, Clemson and Pitt attempted 30 three-point shots in each game. That was the first time in UNC history the opponents attempted 30 or more three-pointers in four consecutive games. It happened three games in a row one time in 1997-98.
• The opponents have taken 30 or more threes in nine of 28 games. Carolina is 6-3 in games in which the opponents hoist 30 or more three-point shots.
• Three of Carolina's starters are shooting better than 80 percent from the free throw line this season – Joel Berry II (.896), Cameron Johnson (.895) and Theo Pinson (.818).
• This is the first time three UNC starters are shooting 80 percent from the line since 2007-08, when Ty Lawson (.835), Wayne Ellington (.826) and Tyler Hansbrough (.806) accomplished that.
• Carolina is 18-1 this year when it leads at the half and 3-6 when trailing at the break (two of the three wins came on 2/8 vs. Duke and 2/10 at NC State).
• Carolina is 11-1 when the Tar Heels shoot 50 percent or better from the floor and 10-1 when holding the opponents under 40 percent.
• Carolina has scored more than one point per possession in four of the last five games (1.09 vs. Pitt, 1.02 at NC State, 1.11 vs. Notre Dame and 1.11 at Louisville).
• Carolina has scored at least 1.0 points per possession in each of the last five halves and nine of the last 11 halves, beginning with the second half of the loss at Clemson on 1/30.
• UNC had scored more than 1.0 per possession in only three of the previous 13 games prior to the Pitt game.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Isaiah Hicks

Justin Jackson

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Kennedy Meeks

Theo Pinson

Kenny Williams

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