2017-18 Season Recap

• Carolina went 26-11 and earned a No. 2 seed in the West Region in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Tar Heels went 11-7 in the ACC regular season, which tied for third place in the ACC. This was the 56th time in 65 seasons UNC finished in the top three (including ties) in the ACC standings.
• It was the 12th time in 15 seasons under head coach Roy Williams the Tar Heels finished in the top three in the ACC.
• Carolina was 12-3 at the Smith Center, 7-5 in road games and 7-3 at neutral sites.
• Carolina had road wins at four teams that played in the NCAA Tournament (Davidson, Tennessee, NC State and Syracuse) and three that played in the NIT (Stanford, Notre Dame and Louisville).
• UNC was 3-1 in the ACC Tournament and 1-1 in the NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina played 24 of its 37 games against teams that played in the NCAA Tournament and won 14 of those 24 games.
• Carolina also was 5-0 against teams that played in the 2018 NIT.
• UNC was 19-10 against teams that played in either the NCAA Tournament or NIT.
• The Tar Heels were the No. 6 seed in the ACC Tournament and beat No. 11 Syracuse, No. 3 Miami and No. 2 Duke en route to their 35th appearance in the ACC Tournament championship game.
• It was the second time ever (and the second time in four seasons) the Tar Heels beat two higher seeds in the same ACC Tournament. In 2015, No. 5 UNC beat No. 4 Louisville and No. 1 Virginia on its way to the championship game vs. Notre Dame.
• The Tar Heels had a winning record in ACC regular-season play for the 58th time in 65 seasons (the 13th time in 15 seasons under Williams).
• It was the 42nd time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels won at least 10 ACC regular-season games and the 34th time they won at least 11 (13th time in 15 seasons under Williams, including eight years in a row).

CAROLINA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• The 2018 NCAA Tournament was Carolina's 49th appearance, second most all-time (57 Kentucky).
• Carolina is 124-46 in the NCAA Tournament. UNC is second in wins, two behind Kentucky.
• This was Carolina's ninth time as a No. 2 seed (1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2011 and 2018).
• Joel Berry II and Theo Pinson ended their collegiate careers playing in 14 NCAA Tournament wins and 17 NCAA Tournament games. They are tied for second in UNC history in NCAA Tourney games played and wins.
• Nate Britt, Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks (2014-17), Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough (2006-09), Quentin Thomas (2005-08) and George Lynch (1999-93) also played in 14 wins; Pat Sullivan is the record-holder with 16 (1991-93, 1995).
• The win over Lipscomb upped UNC's record to 30-1 in the round of 64 (beginning in 1985).
• The 86-65 loss to Texas A&M was Carolina's largest margin of defeat in the NCAA Tournament since a 96-73 loss to Arkansas in the 1990 regional semifinal.
• The loss to Texas A&M dropped UNC's record in the round of 32 to 29-13.
• Roy Williams is 77-25 in 102 NCAA Tournament games. Williams is second in games and wins.
• Williams tied Bob Knight for third all-time with 28 appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
• Williams is 28-0 in opening-round games in the NCAA Tournament after the 84-66 win over Lipscomb. That is the best first-game record in NCAA Tournament history.
• Theo Pinson had 15 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists in the first round against Lipscomb. That was the most assists any Tar Heel with a double-double had in an NCAA Tournament game and tied the closest a Tar Heel has come to a triple double in an NCAA Tournament game. Steve Bucknall had 10 points, seven rebounds and 10 assists vs. Michigan in 1989.

AWARDS
• Junior forward Luke Maye earned third-team All-America honors from the Associated Press, Sporting News, USA Today and NBC Sports.
• Senior point guard Joel Berry was a third-team All-America by the NABC (coaches).
• Maye and Berry are the 51st and 52nd Tar Heels to earn All-America honors. UNC players have won All-America honors 86 times.
• They are the 12th and 13th Tar Heels to play for Roy Williams to earn All-America honors (a total of 19 times).
• This was the 25th time at least two Tar Heels earned All-America honors in the same season (first time since Tyler Zeller, Harrison Barnes and Kendall Marshall in 2012).
• Maye and Berry earned first-team All-ACC honors. Theo Pinson also received votes.
• Maye is the first Tar Heel to make one start as a freshman and sophomore and earn first-team All-ACC honors as an upperclassman.
• Berry is UNC's ninth point guard to earn first-team All-ACC honors, joining Tommy Kearns (1957-58), Larry Brown (1963), George Karl (1973), Phil Ford (1976-77-78), Kenny Smith (1987), Raymond Felton (2005), Ty Lawson (2009) and Marcus Paige (2014).
• This was the first time since 2012 Carolina placed multiple players on the All-ACC first team. That year, three Tar Heels – Tyler Zeller, Harrison Barnes and John Henson – made the first team.
• This was the 23rd season in which two or more Tar Heels made the All-ACC first team: 1957-58-59-60-63-67-68-69-72-76-77-78-82-83-84-87-93-95-98-2005-09-12-18.
• Maye and Berry received the third- and fourth-most votes for All-ACC honors behind ACC Player of the Marvin Bagley III (Duke) and Jerome Robinson (Boston College).
• Maye was the ACC Most Improved Player. He is the second Tar Heel to win the award in the five years it has been given (Marcus Paige in 2014). UNC is the only school with two Most Improved Player awards.
• Berry and Maye earned All-District honors from the NABC and USBWA.
• Maye was a second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America. Maye is the 15th Tar Heel to earn Academic All-America honors. He is the third in the last eight years (Tyler Zeller in 2011 and 2012; Marcus Paige in 2014, 2015 and 2016).
• Maye was the 2018 winner of the Skip Prosser Award as the ACC's top scholar-athlete in men's basketball. Tar Heels have won the Prosser Award in five of the last eight years (Zeller in 2011 and 2012; Paige in 2015 and 2016; Maye in 2018).
• Maye was the fourth player to win first-team All-ACC honors and the Prosser Award in the same season (with Miami's Jack McClinton in 2009, Zeller in 2012 and Duke's Mason Plumlee in 2013). Marcus Paige won both, but in different seasons.
• Berry was one of five 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).
• Maye was one of five finalists for the Karl Malone Award as the nation's top power forward.
• Maye was one of 15 finalists for the John R. Wooden Award (national player of the year). Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III were the only ACC players on the list.
• Maye was the only player in the league to win ACC Player of the Week honors three times.
• Maye and Pinson were named to the All-Tournament first team and Berry was a second-team honoree at the 2018 ACC Tournament.

RANKINGS
• UNC was No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll (released after the ACC Tournament).
• This was the 37th season Carolina was ranked in the top 10 in the final AP poll.
• The final poll of the season marked the 80th consecutive week and NCAA-record 896th poll in which the Tar Heels were ranked.
• Carolina was ranked in all 19 weeks of the AP poll this season. This was the fourth consecutive year UNC was ranked every week in the AP poll (last time not ranked was in the 16th poll in 2013-14).
• Carolina won seven games against teams in the final AP poll – one win vs. No. 7 Michigan, two over No. 9 Duke, and one each against No. 13 Tennessee, No. 17 Ohio State, No. 20 Clemson and No. 22 Miami.
• This was the 10th time in 15 years at Carolina and the 19th time in 30 years as a head coach Roy Williams' team was ranked in the top 10 in the final AP poll.
• Carolina was 14th in the final coaches poll (released after the NCAA Tournament).

KENPOM RANKINGS
• Carolina finished the year No. 8 in KenPom's overall rankings – sixth in offensive efficiency and 38th in defensive efficiency.
• Carolina's schedule was the most difficult in the nation. UNC's opponents averaged the No. 5 offensive efficiency and the No.1 defensive efficiency.

TRENDS AND NOTES
• Carolina led the nation in rebounds per game (42.4) and were third in rebound margin (9.6 per game) behind Michigan State and Wichita State.
• This was the second year in a row the Tar Heels led the nation in rebounds per game.
• This was the ninth time in 15 seasons the Tar Heels have finished in the top 10 in the country in rebound margin. It was the sixth time under Roy Williams that Carolina was in the top five in rebound margin (first in 2008, 2012 and 2017; third in 2007 and 2018; and fifth in 2006).
• The Tar Heels were third in the country in offensive rebound percentage (37.4) behind Duke and Cincinnati and fourth in offensive rebounds per game (13.8).
• Carolina has finished fifth, third, first and third (in 2017-18) in the country in offensive rebounding percentage in the last four seasons.
• The Tar Heels averaged 15.1 second-chance points per game.
• Carolina tied for fourth in the country in assists (18.2 per game). It was the 10th time in 15 seasons UNC has finished in the top five in the nation in assists per game (including four straight and five of the last six seasons).
• Carolina set school records for most three-point field goals (305) and most three-point attempts (849) and made the second-most threes per game (8.2).
• The opponents also set records for most three-pointers (357) and most threes per game (9.6).
• Carolina had 674 assists and 445 turnovers, a ratio of 1.51 that was the fourth best in a season in school history.
• Three of the four best assist-turnover ratios in school history have come in the last three seasons (1.65 in 2015-16 is the school record, 1.53 in 2016-17 is tied for second and 1.51 in 2017-18 is fourth).
• Third-team All-America and first-team All-ACC forward Luke Maye had 17 point/rebound double-doubles, the fifth most in a season under head coach Roy Williams.
• Maye averaged 16.9 points and 10.1 rebounds. He was 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 was the first Tar Heel to have two 30-point/15-rebound games in the same season since Mitch Kupchak in 1976. The junior from Huntersville, N.C., had 32 points and 18 rebounds against Boston College and 33 points and 17 rebounds at NC State.
• Maye joined Kupchak, Lennie Rosenbluth and Billy Cunningham as the only Tar Heels with multiple 30/15 games in the same season.
• Maye had 28 points, 16 rebounds and five assists vs. Arkansas. He was the first Tar Heel to reach those figures in a game since Mitch Kupchak vs. Mercer in 1976.
• Maye and Berry scored 625 and 617 points, respectively. This was the fifth time in UNC history and the first time since 2012 two players scored 600 or more points in a season.
• Berry and junior guard Kenny Williams combined to make 165 three-pointers, the fourth-most by any two Tar Heels in a season.
• Berry finished his career 13th in UNC career scoring with 1,813 points, second in three-pointers made (266) and attempted (726), eighth in free throw percentage (.833) and 13th in assists (451).
• Berry, Phil Ford and Marcus Paige are the only players in the top 15 all-time at UNC in scoring and assists.
• Berry and Walter Davis are the only Tar Heels with 1,800 points, 400 rebounds (405 for Berry) and 400 assists.
• Berry set a UNC record with the win over Duke in the ACC semifinals. It was Berry's 60th ACC win (50 regular season and 10 Tournament). The previous school record was 59 set from 2014-17 by Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks.
• Berry tied the UNC record for playing in the most wins in the ACC Tournament (10) with Eric Montross and Derrick Phelps (1991-94).
• Berry led the ACC in free throw percentage at 89.3 percent, the second-highest in UNC history; he is the only Tar Heel to have two of the eight-highest single-season free throw percentages in UNC history.
• Theo Pinson became the first Tar Heel to average at least 10 points, five assists and five rebounds in a season (in fact, no Tar Heel ever averaged five or rebounds and assists). The senior from Greensboro averaged career highs in points (10.3), rebounds (6.5) and assists (5.1).
• Pinson became the eighth player in ACC history to average 10/5/5 in the same season (Georgia Tech's Brian Oliver in 1989, Georgia Tech's Kenny Anderson in 1990 and 1991, Maryland's Walt Williams in 1991, Duke's Grant Hill in 1994, FSU's Bob Sura in 1995, Maryland's John Gilchrist in 2005 and Maryland's Greivis Vasquez in 2008 and 2009).
• Pinson led UNC in assists with 187 and finished fifth in the ACC in assists per game, the only non-point guard in the top five. He led UNC in assists in 25 of the 37 games.
• Pinson joined Walter Davis and Ed Cota as the only Tar Heels with 500 rebounds and 400 assists.
• Pinson is third all-time at UNC in assist/turnover ratio among players with 400 or more assists. He had 416 assists and 186 turnovers, a ratio of 2.2
• Pinson had seven double-doubles (six in points/rebounds and one in points/assists).
• Five Tar Heels (Joel Berry II, Luke Maye, Cameron Johnson, Kenny Williams and Theo Pinson) averaged in double figures in points per game for the first time since 2008-09. This was the eighth time a UNC has had five or more players average 10 or more points.
• Three Tar Heels scored 30 or more points in a game – Luke Maye (33 at NC State, 32 vs. NC State and 31 vs. Boston College), Cameron Johnson (32 at Clemson) and Joel Berry II (31 vs. Miami).
• Carolina was 12-2 when shooting 50 percent or better from the floor and 13-1 when holding the opponents under 40 percent.
• Only three opponents shot 50 percent from the floor – Miami (.548) in its win in Chapel Hill, NC State (.547) in Carolina's win in Raleigh and Texas A&M (.538) in the NCAA Tournament.
• Kenny Williams led the team in defensive player of the game awards (10) and charges drawn (34).
• Carolina was 22-4 when Williams scored in double figures (and 4-7 when he didn't).
• Williams tied the UNC record for three-pointers in a game against Duke when he made six in UNC's 82-78 win on 2/8.
• Williams set a school record for most threes in a first half when he hit six at Stanford on 11/20.
• Carolina's win at Stanford was its 12th consecutive against Pac-12 opponents.
• UNC went 18-4 when Theo Pinson had five or more assists and 22-6 when Pinson had more assists than turnovers. UNC was 3-5 when he had more turnovers than assists.
• Pinson set his career high with 25 points and added 11 rebounds in the ACC Tournament quarterfinal win over Miami. It was the first time a Tar Heel had at least 25/11 in an ACC Tournament game since Joseph Forte vs. Georgia Tech in 2001.
• The opponents made 10 or more three-pointers in 20 of 37 games, including 11 of 22 ACC games (including the ACC Tournament). UNC went 13-7 when the opponents made 10 or more threes.
• The opponents made 10 or more threes in seven of UNC's 11 losses.
• NC State and Clemson both made 15 three-pointers in defeating UNC on 1/27 and 1/30, respectively. The 30 three-pointers were the most that opponents have ever made against UNC in consecutive games.
• Carolina's opponents scored 39.5 percent of their points on three-pointers, the ninth-highest percentage against any team in the country.
• Carolina's opponents shot 38.0 percent from three-point range, which equaled the third-highest percentage in a season by the opponents.
• Three of Carolina's starters shot better than 80 percent from the free throw line – Joel Berry II (.893), Cameron Johnson (.847) and Theo Pinson (.818).
• This was the first time three UNC starters shot 80 percent from the line since 2007-08, when Ty Lawson (.835), Wayne Ellington (.826) and Tyler Hansbrough (.806) accomplished that.
• Carolina out-rebounded its opponents 31 times (24-7) and was out-rebounded six times (2-4).
• Carolina was 26-6 when three or more Tar Heels scored in double figures and 0-5 when fewer than three scored in double figures.
• Carolina was 13-4 when Luke Maye had a double-double.
• Carolina was 14-0 when Joel Berry II had zero turnovers or one turnover and 11-11 when he had two or more.
• Carolina tied its school record for fewest turnovers in a game with two in the home victory over Duke. It was the first time UNC committed as few as two turnovers since the 1997 NCAA Tournament first-round win over Fairfield.
• Carolina made 16 of 22 from three-point range against Western Carolina. The 16 threes were the second most in UNC history and the percentage (.727) was the highest in any game in which UNC attempted 20 or more from behind the arc.
• The Tar Heels attempted more three-pointers than two-point field goals for the first time ever in Roy Williams' 15 years as UNC's head coach when UNC took 31 threes (and made 11) and took 20 two-point shots against Clemson on 1/16. Carolina had not attempted more threes than twos since 3/18/2003 against DePaul.
• Carolina also attempted more three-pointers (25) than twos (24) against Virginia in the ACC Tournament final.
• Carolina shot 24.6 percent from the floor in its 63-45 loss to Michigan State, the lowest percentage in school history. UNC was 1 for 18 from three-point range for a school-record low percentage of .056.
• The Tar Heels tied their single-game record for fewest turnovers when they committed only two miscues in the 82-78 win over Duke at the Smith Center on 2/8.
• Carolina shot 78.1 percent from the floor in the second half at NC State (25 of 32), the highest percentage in a half in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as UNC's head coach.
• Luke Maye made 15 field goals in the win at NC State, the most in any game in the Williams era.
• Carolina's win over Bucknell was the 400th win for Williams as head coach of the Tar Heels. He became the first coach to win 400 games at two schools. He won 418 in 15 seasons at Kansas and finished the 2017-18 season with 424 at Carolina.
• The Tar Heels improved to 10-9 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge with an 86-71 win over eventual national runnerup Michigan. It was the first time the Tar Heels and the Wolverines played since the 1993 national championship game 25 seasons ago.
• Carolina's win over Boston College on 1/9 was UNC's 400th win in the Dean E. Smith Center. UNC finished the season 405-71 in the Smith Center (207-55 in ACC play and 198-16 against non-conference opponents).

2018-19 SIGNEES
• Rechon Black from Concord, N.C. (Cox Mill High School in Concord)
• Black earned first-team all-state honors from the North Carolina Basketball Coaches Association.
• Nassir Little from Orange Park, Fla. (Orlando Christian Prep)
• Little won MVP honors at the 2018 McDonald's All-Star Game and is a third-team USA Today All-America.
• Coby White from Goldsboro, N.C. (Greenfield School in Wilson, N.C.)
• White set the all-time prep scoring record in the state of North Carolina and is a second-team USA Today All-America.
• Little and White played in the McDonald's and Jordan Brand Classic all-star games.

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