University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC-Virginia Notes
February 3, 2015 | Men's Basketball
• Carolina is now 17-6 overall, 7-3 in the ACC and 9-3 at home this season.
• Carolina has dropped two straight games for the first time this season.
• Carolina now leads the series vs. Virginia, 128-52. The Cavaliers won in Chapel Hill for the seventh time in 72 games. UNC leads the series, 23-4, in the Smith Center.
• Virginia out-scored the Tar Heels, 18-8 in points off turnovers tonight. That is the third straight game in which the opposition has scored more points off turnovers than UNC. Syracuse had an edge of 21-5 and Louisville out-scored UNC, 17-15, for a three-game total of 56 to 28 for the opposition.
• Marcus Paige tied a UNC record for most consecutive games with multiple three-point field goals. Paige went 3 for 7 tonight from beyond the line and has connected on two or more threes in 13 straight games. Shammond Williams also accomplished that in 13 straight games in 1996-97.
• Paige had a team-high 15 points and four assists. His fourth assist was the 400th of his career. He is the 10th Tar Heel with 1,000 points, 400 assists and 100 steals and just the third Tar Heel to also have made 150 three-pointers (with Jeff Lebo and Raymond Felton).
• Kennedy Meeks had 11 points and seven rebounds, but had a career-high six turnovers.
• J.P. Tokoto had three assists and no turnovers in 30 minutes, but did not score a field goal for the first time since the Villanova game in the 2013 NCAA Tournament.
• Nate Britt scored nine points. He has 36 points in the last three games (12.0 per game).
• Brice Johnson had 14 points and a team-high eight rebounds and matched his season high with three blocked shots.
• Carolina lost for the second straight game when leading at the half. The Tar Heels led 33-32 after a last-second tip-in basket by Kennedy Meeks. UNC is now 15-3 this year when leading at the break (losses to Butler, Louisville and Virginia).
• Virginia became just the second opponent this year to shoot better than 50 percent from the floor. The Cavaliers shot 51.8 percent for the game. Kentucky (.563) is the only other team to shoot 50 or better this year.
