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UNC-Duke ACC Tournament Notes
March 12, 2011 | Men's Basketball
March 12, 2011
ACC Tournament Notes
• North Carolina and Duke are both playing in their 30th ACC Tournament championship game.
• Carolina and Duke are playing each other in the championship game for the 11th time. The Tar Heels have won six of the previous 10 title matchups against Duke, although the Blue Devils have won the last two.
1967 - UNC 82, Duke 73 in Greensboro
1969 - UNC 85, Duke 74 in Charlotte
1979 - UNC 71, Duke 63 in Greensboro
1988 - Duke 65, UNC 61 in Greensboro
1989 - UNC 77, Duke 74 in Atlanta
1991 - UNC 96, Duke 74 in Charlotte
1992 - Duke 94, UNC 74 in Charlotte
1998 - UNC 83, Duke 68 in Greensboro
1999 - Duke 96, UNC 73 in Charlotte
2001 - Duke 79, UNC 53 in Atlanta
• The Tar Heels are 8-11 against Duke in the ACC Tournament in all rounds, although the teams have not played one another since the 2003 semifinals in Greensboro when Duke won, 75-63.
• Carolina and Duke have combined to win 35 of the first 57 ACC Tournament championships. The Blue Devils won their 18th in 2010. Carolina won its 17th in 2008.
• The Tar Heels are 86-39 in all ACC Tournament games. Duke is 89-39 in all ACC Tournament games.
• Only five freshmen have won Most Valuable Player honors in ACC Tournament history - Tar Heels Phil Ford (1975), Sam Perkins (1981), Jerry Stackhouse (1994) and Brandan Wright (2007) and Blue Devil guard Jason Williams (2000).
• Sunday's championship game features the 2011 ACC Player of the Year (Nolan Smith), Rookie of the Year (Harrison Barnes), Defensive Player of the Year (John Henson), Coach of the Year (Roy Williams) and six of the 15 players on the 2011 All-ACC teams (first-teamers Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler, second-teamers Henson, Tyler and Harrison Barnes and third-teamer Kendall Marshall).
• Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and UNC's Roy Williams, both members of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, have combined to win six NCAA titles and 1537 games (with just 443 losses in 1981 games). This is the first ACC Tournament championship game in which both coaches are members of the Naismith Hall of Fame.
• This is the first time the top two seeds in the ACC Tournament will play in the championship game since the 2001 title game between #1 UNC and #2 Duke.
• This is the seventh time in ACC Tournament history that #1 seeded North Carolina will play the #2 seed in the championship game. UNC is 4-2 in those games (beat Duke in 1967, lost to South Carolina in 1971, beat Maryland in 1972, beat Duke in 1979, beat Virginia in 1982 and lost to Duke in 2001)..
