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UNC-Miami Postgame Notes
March 11, 2011 | Men's Basketball
March 11, 2011
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UNC Postgame Notes Friday, March 11, 2011 vs. Miami
• Carolina's comeback win is its largest in ACC Tournament history. The Tar Heels trailed Miami by 19 points with 9:51 to play in the second half. Carolina closed the game on a 27-6 run over the last 9:51 of play.
• Miami led 31-22 at the half. That equals UNC's largest halftime deficit overcome in an ACC Tournament game. In the 1969 ACC championship game, Duke led Carolina 43-34 but the Tar Heels rallied for an 85-74 win behind Charles Scott's 40 points.
• The 19-point comeback is Carolina's largest in any game since Feb. 15, 2006, when freshman Tyler Hansbrough scored 40 points in an 82-75 UNC win over Georgia Tech in Chapel Hill. The Yellow Jackets led 50-30 with four minutes left in the first half. Carolina's previous best comeback this season was 16 points against Virginia Tech in Chapel Hill (the Hokies led 28-12 and 31-15 in the first half before UNC came back to win 64-61).
• The 19-point deficit in the second half is the largest overcome by Carolina to win since Jan. 27, 1993, against Florida State. In that game, UNC trailed by 21 in the second half and by 19 (73-54) with under 9:00 to play. The Tar Heels outscored the Seminoles 28-4 over the last nine minutes to win.
• North Carolina scored its fewest points (61) in an ACC Tournament victory since a 57-51 semifinal win over NC State on March 9, 1985, in Atlanta.
• The comeback win avoided Carolina's first-ever three-game losing streak in ACC Tournament history.
• Carolina has won four games against ACC opponents this season in which the Tar Heels trailed by 10 or more points. Virginia led UNC by 11 in the second half in Charlottesville in a 62-56 UNC win; Virginia Tech led by 16 in the first half in a 64-61 UNC win in Chapel Hill; Miami led by 14 early in the game in Coral Gables before UNC came back to win 74-71; and today the Tar Heels trailed 53-34 with 9:51 to play.
• Carolina made 10 of its 22 field goals from three-point range in the game. UNC made 45.5 percent of its baskets from three-point range, easily its largest percentage of the season. UNC made 11 of 29 field goals (.379) against Rutgers from three-point range on Dec. 28.
• UNC made 10 three-pointers, the fifth time this season Carolina has made 10 or more three-pointers in a game and the first time in 10 games (since making 11 at Boston College on Feb. 1). Carolina had made 10 combined three-pointers in its previous two wins over Florida State and Duke.
• UNC's 20 turnovers were its most since it had 22 against Vanderbilt in Puerto Rico in the fourth game of the season. Carolina's previous high in an ACC game was 18 in the loss at Georgia Tech.
• Kendall Marshall had 10 assists, his second consecutive double-figure assist game and third in the last four contests. He had an assist on Tyler Zeller's game-winning layup as time expired against Miami.
• Tyler Zeller scored each of UNC's last four field goals and finished with 13 points and nine rebounds. Zeller's game-winning basket as time expired was Carolina's first winning shot with no time remaining since Ty Lawson hit a running three-pointer at Florida State on Jan. 28, 2009.
• Leslie McDonald scored all 11 of his points in the second half, hitting three three-pointers. He hit two three-pointers to start the 19-point comeback. McDonald has scored in double figures in three of his last four games. McDonald has shot 14 for 26 from three-point range in the last seven games.
• Harrison Barnes led all scorers with 18 points. It was the ninth time in the last 15 ACC games Barnes has led UNC in scoring and he tied his season high with four three-pointers (also against Hofstra and at Boston College). UNC is 11-0 in games when Barnes scores 17 points or more this season.
• John Henson had 10 points, 13 rebounds and five blocked shots. It was the 10th consecutive game Henson has grabbed 10 or more rebounds, the longest streak by a Tar Heel since Billy Cunningham did it 10 games in a row in 1965. Henson now has 99 blocks this season, second-most in UNC single-season history. Friday was Henson's 13th double-double of the season.
• Henson blocked five shots, marking the eighth time this season he has blocked five or more shots in a contest. He has 159 career blocks, passing Danny Green (155) and Rasheed Wallace (156) to move into seventh place in school history. Scott Williams is sixth with 161.
• The win was Carolina's 25th of the season, marking UNC's 32nd 25-win season and fifth in the last seven years under Roy Williams, who now has 17 25-win seasons in 23 years as a head coach.
• Carolina is now 85-39 in the ACC Tournament, 39-12 in the quarterfinals, 44-12 as the No. 1 seed, 5-0 vs. the No. 9 seed, 1-0 vs. Miami in ACC Tournament play and 33-14 in ACC Tournament play in Greensboro.
• Carolina is now 114-30 in the city of Greensboro, including 108-27 in the current Greensboro Coliseum.
• Today was Roy Williams' 800th game as a collegiate head coach. His career record is 639-161 (.799). He has the highest winning percentage of any active coach in the nation.
• Miami scored 59 points and shot 36.7 percent from the floor in the game, marking the 21st game in a row that UNC has held its opponents to under 80 points and under 50 percent.
• Carolina is 6-0 this season against ACC opponents in games decided by five points or fewer.
• UNC walkons Patrick Crouch, Daniel Bolick, Van Hatchell, D.J. Johnston and Stewart Cooper (known collectively as "Blue Steel" to UNC fans) played in the first half as a group for the first time this season and played approximately two minutes.
