Carolina To Face Duke In ACC Semis

• Carolina is 24-9 overall, including 12-6 away from Chapel Hill this season. That includes a 7-5 record in road games and 5-1 at neutral sites.
• This was the 56th time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels finished in the top three in the ACC regular-season standings.
• Carolina is 38-24 in New York City (6-10 in the original Madison Square Garden, 28-13 in the current Garden and 4-1 in Barclays Center).
• UNC's strength of schedule (NCAA and KenPom) is the most difficult in the nation.

ACC Tournament
• Carolina is 99-45 with 18 championships and 34 appearances in the finals.
• Carolina is 45-13 in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals after its 82-65 win over Miami.
• The Miami game was the eighth time in 58 quarterfinals that UNC was the lower seed. UNC is now 4-4 in those eight games with wins in 1964, 2003, 2015 and 2018.
• Carolina is 34-15 in the semifinals. Duke is second with 32 wins in the semifinals.
• Carolina is 2-0 as a No. 6 seed and 11-6 against the No. 2 seed.
• Roy Williams is 24-11 in the ACC Tournament. He is third in ACC Tourney wins behind Mike Krzyzewski (62) and Dean Smith (58). He came into the 2018 ACC Tournament tied with Vic Bubas.
• Williams is fifth in ACC Tournament winning percentage (.686). The top five winning percentages by coach in ACC Tournament history are either Carolina or Duke coaches (Bubas, Krzyzewski, Smith, UNC's Bill Guthridge and Williams).
• The 2018 ACC Tournament marks the 22nd consecutive year in which either Carolina or Duke will be playing in the ACC Tournament championship game (the last time was the 1996 final between Wake Forest and Georgia Tech).
• This will be the 56th Tournament in 65 years in which at least one of the two schools in playing in the title game.

Carolina-Duke Series
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 136-111.
• This is the 22nd time the teams are playing each other in the ACC Tournament (Duke leads, 13-8, and has won six in a row). This is the fourth time in the last seven matchups in the ACC Tournament the Tar Heels are the lower seed.
• Duke is now UNC's most frequent matchup in ACC Tournament history (UNC and Wake Forest have played 21 times). Only Duke-NC State have met more times (26).
• Carolina and Duke are playing for the 248th time overall and the 11th consecutive game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• The 2018 ACC Tournament semifinal is the 82nd game in which both schools are ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 29th time in 33 games in the Williams-Krzyzewski era that both teams are ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 148th consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 13-19 against Duke as Carolina's head coach.
• The Tar Heels have played 247 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• Carolina is 43-46 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 38 of the ACC's 64 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 20 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 31 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 37 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 36 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.

2/8/18 in Chapel Hill: Carolina 82, Duke 78
• Carolina overcame a 12-point deficit in the first half with a 27-8 run and held on for an 82-78 win over No. 9 Duke.
• Joel Berry II led all scorers with 21 points and had six assists and no turnovers.
• Kenny Williams and Cameron Johnson combined for 38 points and 10 three-pointers.
• Williams tied his career high with 20 points, tied his career high with six three-pointers (both at Stanford on 11/20/17) and tied the UNC record for 3FGs against Duke (with Hubert Davis in 1992).
• Johnson had a career-high 13 rebounds in his third career double-double. He had 18 points and made four three-pointers.
• Carolina tied a school record with only two turnovers (also against Fairfield on 3/13/1997 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Winston-Salem).
• The two turnovers were the fewest in an ACC game by UNC (previous low was three against Virginia in the 1982 ACC final and at Duke on 2/24/1979).
• Entering the game, UNC and Duke were 1-2 in the nation in rebounds per game and 1-4 in the nation in rebound margin. Carolina out-rebounded the Blue Devils, 44-38, including 28-17 in the second half.
• Carolina had 20 offensive rebounds to 11 for the Blue Devils, and out-scored Duke, 12-7, on second-chance points.
• UNC held Duke, the nation's highest scoring team, to 29 second-half points (second-fewest in a half by Duke this year).
• It was UNC's largest comeback win of the regular season. Duke led 40-28 with 6:15 to play in the first half.
• Carolina attempted a season-high 33 three-pointers, the most ever by a Roy Williams team in his 15 years at Carolina. The previous high was 32 vs. Mississippi State in Maui on 11/19/2012.
• The 33 attempts were the second-most in an ACC game in UNC history.

3/3/18 in Durham: Duke 74, Carolina 64
• Carolina's 64 points were its fewest since a 61-49 loss at Virginia on 1/6.
• Duke's 74 points were the third-fewest by the opponents in a UNC loss this season (61 by Virginia, 63 by Michigan State).
• Carolina led by 13 points in the second half (42-29 with 17 minutes to play). It was the largest lead in a loss this season (previous was an eight-point lead over Miami in the previous game).
• Carolina's previous largest halftime lead in a loss was three at home against NC State.
• Carolina shot 37.1 percent from the floor for the game, its lowest since shooting 29.6 percent in the loss at Virginia.
• Duke scored 25 points on 44 possessions in the first half. The Blue Devils' points per possession of .57 was the lowest by an opponent in any half this season (previous low was .60 in the first half by Western Carolina).
• In the second half, Duke scored 49 points on 42 possessions (1.17).
• Carolina had a points per possession of .81 in the first half, .67 in the second and .74 for the game, its lowest since the third game of the ACC schedule at Virginia (.63).
• Duke shot 60 percent from the floor in the second half, which tied the second-highest percentage in a half by the opponents this season.
• Duke out-rebounded the Tar Heels, 46-42. UNC is 1-3 this season when it is out-rebounded (losses to Michigan State, Virginia Tech and Duke, win at Notre Dame).
• Duke was 9 for 20 from the free throw line, while the Tar Heels attempted five free throws (made four).
• The four made free throws are a season low and the five attempts tie the season low (UNC was 5 for 5 at Virginia Tech).
• UNC was 0 for 1 from the free throw line in the second half. That was the first time UNC did not make a free throw in a half since losing at Northern Iowa on 11/21/15.
• Carolina attempted 31 three-pointers (made eight). That was the fourth time this season UNC attempted at least 30 three-pointers in a game (wins over Clemson and Duke, losses to Virginia Tech and Duke).
• Duke's 16 offensive rebounds were the third most against UNC this year (20 at Notre Dame, 18 at Tennessee) and the most in a UNC loss.
• Duke's 16 second-chance points were the most by an opponent since NC State and Clemson both had 22 in consecutive wins over UNC.
• Carolina matched its season low with four bench points (previously in the loss vs. Michigan State and win over Duke).
• Johnson led UNC with 16 points, the third time he has led UNC in scoring (twice against Clemson).
• Williams shared the team lead in rebounds with eight. That was the second time in three games (at Syracuse) in which he tied his career high and led UNC in rebounding.
• Berry scored six points, only the fourth time this season he did not score in double figures (win over Bucknell, losses to Michigan State, NC State and Duke). He came into the game averaging 21.1 points in the previous eight games.
• Berry was 0 for 7 from three-point range, just the third time in the first 30 games he did not connect on a three (Arkansas, home vs. NC State). He came into the game averaging a school record 2.72 threes per game. It was the most three-point attempts without a make in his career (previously five attempts twice).
• Brooks scored all four of UNC's bench points in 11 minutes.

Game 33: UNC 82, Miami 65
• The Tar Heels did not score for the first 7:09 and spotted the Hurricanes a 14-0 lead, then out-scored Miami 82-51 the rest of the game.
• Carolina missed its first 13 shots from the floor before Seventh Woods scored on a drive and three-point play with 12:51 to play in the first half.
• Brandon Robinson gave UNC its first lead at 19-18 with a three-pointer with 5:57 left in the half.
• Carolina led 32-31 at the half.
• The game was tied at 50 with 10:31 to play before the Tar Heels closed the game by out-scoring the Canes, 32-15.
• Theo Pinson scored a career-high 25 points and added 11 rebounds, three assists and three steals. He was 9 for 12 from the floor.
• It was the first time a Tar Heel had at least 25 points and 11 rebounds in an ACC Tournament game since Joseph Forte had 27 and 12 against Georgia Tech in the 2001 semifinals in Atlanta.
• Pinson scored 19 of his game-high 25 in the second half.
• It was Pinson's sixth double-double in the last 14 games (he had one in his first 104 games).
• Pinson was 2 for 2 from three-point range. It was the third time (at Syracuse, Miami at home and Miami again) in the last five games he made two three-pointers. He had not made multiple threes in any of UNC's first 29 games this season.
• Carolina missed its first 13 field goal attempts (seven of which were three-point attempts), then shot 50 percent from the floor over the final 13 minutes of the first half (11 of 22) and 50 percent in the second half (18 of 36).
• Miami, which shot 54.8 percent from the floor and 50.0 percent from three in beating UNC in Chapel Hill last week, shot 37.1 percent from the floor and 31.6 from behind the arc.
• Miami scored 20 points off 13 Tar Heel turnovers in Chapel Hill; in the quarterfinal, UNC turned it over eight times and the Canes scored just five points off those turnovers.
• Cameron Johnson had 13 points, seven rebounds, five assists and no turnovers.
• Luke Maye was 1 for 15 from the floor, but had 13 rebounds. His two points were a season-low, but it was his 17th game with 10 or more rebounds and the eighth time he grabbed 13 or more boards.
• Maye and Joel Berry II were a combined 5 of 29 from the floor. Berry scored nine of his 11 points in the second half.
• Kenny Williams scored 11 and had a career-high three blocked shots.

Game 32: UNC 78, Syracuse 59
• It was UNC's seventh straight win over Syracuse.
• Theo Pinson had 16 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and two steals. It was the 21st time this year and 42nd time in his career he led UNC in assists.
• Carolina shot 52.2 percent from the floor in the second half.
• Syracuse scored 59 points (fewest against UNC this season), shot 31.7 percent from the floor (lowest vs. UNC this season) and had six assists (also a season low vs. UNC).
• Syracuse had 59 points on 81 possessions, a points per possession of .73, lowest by an opponent since Western Carolina (.71) and second-lowest all year (tied with Michigan State).
• Kenny Williams led UNC with 17 points. It was the first time this year and third time in his career he led UNC in scoring (Radford and Tennessee as a sophomore). Williams played one of his finest defensive games, helping to limit All-ACC guard Tyus Battle to 4 of 21 shooting from the floor for the game and one field goal in the second half.
• Carolina had a 13-2 advantage in points off turnovers and 15-0 in fastbreak points.

Miscellaneous
• Theo Pinson has scored in double figures in a career-high eight straight games (previous was three games earlier this year) and is averaging 10.6 points for the season.
• Pinson is the fifth Tar Heel to average in double figures. This would be the first time since 2008-09 five Tar Heels averaged double figures (has happened in seven seasons prior to this year).
• Pinson is averaging 16.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists in the last eight games. In those games, Pinson is 47 for 78 from the floor (.603), 7 for 11 from three-point range (.636) and 33 of 40 from the line (.825).
• The win over Miami marked the largest comeback of the season for the Tar Heels. UNC trailed 14-0 after seven minutes. The previous largest comeback this season in a Tar Heel victory was from a 12-point deficit at home to Duke.
• Carolina leads the nation in rebounds per game (42.9) and rebound margin (10.6) and is in the top 10 nationally in assists (18.2) and offensive rebounds (14.1).
• Carolina is seventh in the KenPom.com rankings (Duke is third). The Tar Heels have the fourth-best offensive efficiency in KenPom and the 35th best defensive efficiency (Duke is No. 2 on offense and No 10 on defense).
• Duke and Carolina rank one-two nationally in offensive rebound percentage. The Blue Devils retrieve 39.2 percent of their own missed shots, and the Tar Heels grab 38.7 percent.
• Carolina is 20-3 when Kenny Williams scores in double figures.
• Joel Berry II and Luke Maye lead Carolina in scoring at 17.3 and 17.1 points per game, respectively. No Tar Heel pair has averaged 17 points in a season since Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins in 1984.
• Maye is averaging 11.1 points and 8.7 rebounds in the last seven games.
• Berry has scored 20 or more points in six of the last 13 games, but is averaging 8.3 points in his last three. He is 3 for 20 from three-point range in the last three games since he made five threes in his final home game against Miami.
• Cameron Johnson has scored in double figures in 17 of his 22 games as a Tar Heel, including the last four (15.5 per game in the last four).
• Carolina has shot 50 percent or better from the floor nine times in its last 15 halves.
• Luke Maye and Joel Berry II made first-team All-ACC, the 23rd time in school history the Tar Heels have placed multiple players on the All-ACC first team.
• Maye is a finalist for the Wooden Award and one fo five finalists for the Karl Malone Award as the top power forward in the country.
• Maye won the Skip Prosser Award as the top men's basketball scholar-athlete in the ACC. This is the fifth time in the last eight years a Tar Heel has won the Prosser Award (Tyler Zeller in 2011 and 2012 and Marcus Paige in 2015 and 2016).
• Berry is one of five finalists for the Bob Cousy Award as the nation's best point guard. Tar Heels Raymond Felton (2005), Ty Lawson (2009) and Kendall Marshall (2012) are previous winners.

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