Tuesday Talking Points

Jan. 3, 2006

By Adam Lucas

This year's game against Davidson will mark the fourth time in five years the teams have met in the regular season. That's the first time that has happened since the inception of the ACC.

Davidson will be the third nonconference in-state opponent (also Gardner-Webb and UNC-Asheville) Carolina has played this year. Not counting the old Big Four Tournament, that also hasn't happened since the inception of the ACC.

Carolina hasn't opened ACC play with NC State since the 1995-96 season. The two teams opened league play against each other for four straight years in the mid-1990s. The Tar Heels won 3 of those 4 games (the loss came in Reynolds during the 1994-95 season).

Saturday's game will be only the second time in 31 years (72 meetings) that NC State and Carolina have met when the Wolfpack has been the higher-ranked team. The last time it happened was Jan. 20, 1990, when unranked Carolina beat 19th-ranked State 91-81 in Reynolds. The last time it happened before that was 1975.

Carolina is 7-0 when Reyshawn Terry scores in double figures. They are 0-2 when he is in single digits.

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