University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC-Duke Postgame Notes
March 8, 2009 | Men's Basketball
March 8, 2009
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• Carolina won its 27th ACC regular-season championship and the 17th outright title with a 79-71 win over Duke.
• This was Carolina's ninth season with at least 13 ACC regular-season wins, including the third time in the last five years under head coach Roy Williams.
• Carolina will be the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament for the fourth time in the last five years and the 22nd time overall. UNC has won a record 17 ACC Tournament titles.
• This season marks the 13th regular-season title in Roy Williams' 21 years at Kansas and North Carolina. He won nine with the Jayhawks and has won four in the last five seasons at UNC (outright in 2005, 2008 and 2009). Eleven of the 13 regular-season conference titles have been won outright.
• Danny Green set a school record tonight by playing in his 116th victory. Sam Perkins held the previous mark with 115 wins from 1980-84.
• Carolina's senior class finished its Smith Center career with a home mark of 57-8, including 44-4 over the last three years, 28-3 over the last two years and 14-1 this season.
• Tyler Hansbrough scored 1,321 points in 62 games in the Smith Center. He averaged 21.3 points in those 62 home games.
• Hansbrough has 2,717 points. He is 53 points from passing Duke's JJ Redick for the ACC record.
• Ty Lawson has 196 assists and 59 turnovers, an assist-error ratio of 3.32, which is No. 1 all-time single-season mark at Carolina and the third-best in ACC history.
• Roy Williams is now 8-8 alltime against Duke, including 7-5 as Carolina's head coach. The Tar Heels have won six of the last seven meetings against the Blue Devils.
• The victory also increases Carolina's lead in the annual Carlyle Cup competition between UNC and Duke to 11.5-4.5. The Tar Heels need 13 points to retain the cup for the fifth straight year.
