University of North Carolina Athletics
Clemson Visits With Tar Heels Needing A Win
January 26, 2014 | Men's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL—North Carolina (11-7, 1-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) will try to rebound from a 1-4 conference start when it hosts Clemson (13-5, 4-2) on Sunday evening in the Smith Center in a nationally televised contest.
The Tar Heels have had almost a week off since losing at Virginia on Monday night. Carolina is off to a 1-4 start in conference play this season, marking just its second 1-4 start ever in ACC play. The 2001-02 team started 1-5 (and later 2-10), finishing 4-12 in the ACC.
Carolina is entering a stretch when it will play three of four games at home. The Tar Heels will play at Georgia Tech next Wednesday before coming home for back-to-back games against NC State and Maryland in the Smith Center.
Clemson enters the game with a 4-2 ACC record but is coming off a 76-43 loss at Pitt on Monday night. The Tigers won four of their first five conference games, including victories over Duke, Boston College, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, before losing in Pittsburgh on Monday. Clemson also lost at home to Florida State on Jan. 9.
The Tar Heels and Tigers will tip off at 6:02 p.m. in the Smith Center on Sunday evening. ESPNU will televise the game nationally with Carter Blackburn (play-by-play), Jay Williams (analyst) and Allison Williams (reporter) on the call. The contest will be available online via the WatchESPN app.
GoHeels TV subscribers can listen to the game here. The contest also will be carried nationally on satellite radio by XM and Sirius (channel 91)
UNC leads the all-time series with Clemson, 127-20. The Tar Heels have beaten the Tigers 15 times in the last 16 meetings and 39 times in the last 46 matchups (since the 1990-91 season). Roy Williams is 15-2 vs. Clemson as the Carolina head coach, including a 5-2 mark in Clemson, a 7-0 mark in Chapel Hill and a 3-0 record in ACC Tournament games.
Carolina has never lost at home to Clemson, leading the series 56-0 in games played in Chapel Hill. That is the longest streak of home wins over an opponent in NCAA history. UNC has beaten the Tigers by double figures in 24 of the last 26 meetings in Chapel Hill (the exceptions were in 1997-98 and 2002-03).
Clemson has played in Chapel Hill 56 times since 1926 with 14 coaches, losing three times at the Tin Can, 15 times at Woollen Gymnasium, 14 times at Carmichael Auditorium and 24 times at the Smith Center.
UNC is 85-4 vs. Clemson in games played in the state of North Carolina. Included in that figure is a 56-0 mark in Chapel Hill, an 11-1 mark in ACC Tournament games in Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte and a 1-1 record in Southern Conference Tournament games in Raleigh prior to the formation of the ACC. Also included is a 13-2 UNC edge in games in Charlotte for the North-South Doubleheader in the 1960s and 1970s and a 4-0 Carolina advantage in other regular season games played in Greensboro or Charlotte.
Clemson has beaten the Tar Heels in the state of North Carolina on the following dates: March 1, 1939 (Southern Conference Tournament in Raleigh), Feb. 14, 1964 (North-South Doubleheader in Charlotte in double overtime), Feb. 18, 1967 (North-South Doubleheader in Charlotte) and March 8, 1996 (ACC Tournament quarterfinals in Greensboro).
After the contest vs. Clemson, Carolina will close out the month of January on Wednesday at Georgia Tech before hosting NC State (Saturday Feb. 1) and Maryland (Tuesday Feb. 4).
