University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels To Visit Duke Thursday
February 10, 2017 | Men's Basketball
| UNC (21-4, 9-2 ACC) vs. Duke (18-5, 6-4 ACC) |
| When: Feb. 9, 2017 - 8 p.m. |
| Where: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham |
| Tickets: Sold out |
| Watch: ESPN/ACC Network |
| Live Stats: GoHeels.com |
| UNC Notes • Duke Notes |
| Rankings: UNC No. 8/No. 7 (AP/coaches); Duke is No. 18/19. |
| Series: UNC leads, 134-108 |
• Carolina returns to action on Thursday, Feb. 9, at Duke. Game time is 8 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 21-4 overall and 9-2 in the ACC. Duke is 18-5, 6-4.
• UNC is ranked eighth in the Associated Press and seventh in the USA Today/Coaches polls. Duke is 18th and 19th, respectively.
• The coaches poll has ranked the Tar Heels higher than the AP poll in each of the last three weeks.
• Carolina has won 20 or more games for the 59th time in school history and the 13th time in 14 years under head coach Roy Williams.
• ACC play began this week with the Tar Heels atop the standings with a 9-2 league record.
• Carolina is fourth in the NCAA's RPI (1-Baylor, 2-Villanova, 3-Kansas, 4-UNC). The Tar Heels' opponents collectively have the 13th-highest RPI in the nation.
• Carolina has eight wins (8-1) over teams in the NCAA's top 50, tied with Kansas (8-1) and Florida State (8-1) for second behind Baylor (9-3) for the most top-50 wins in the country.
• Carolina is tied for third nationally with 13 wins (13-4) over teams in the NCAA's top 100. Butler has 15, Villanova 14, and UNC and Kansas have 13.
• The Tar Heels have scored at least 1.00 points per possession in six of the last eight games (all except .99 vs Notre Dame and .75 in the loss at Miami).
• Theo Pinson is questionable for the game at Duke. He has not played in the last three games against Miami, Pitt and Notre Dame after he rolled his right ankle on 1/26 against Virginia Tech. Pinson has averaged 6.2 points and 5.2 rebounds and had 20 assists and only two turnovers in the six games he played in this year. UNC is plus-114 in scoring and plus-53 in assist-turnovers in those six games.
• Carolina has dropped from 10th to 34th in the country in defensive efficiency in the last five games.
– In the first 18 games, UNC held the opponents under 45 percent shooting from the floor 14 times; Tennessee and Kentucky were the only teams to shoot 50 percent from the floor.
– In the last seven games, UNC has held three teams under 45 percent and Virginia Tech and Pitt both shot over 50 percent.
– In the first 17 games, 12 opponents committed more turnovers than assists and only two had more assists than turnovers.
– In the last eight games, six teams have more assists than turnovers and none have more turnovers than assists.
– Nine of the first 14 opponents had a points per possession under .85; in ACC play, only one (NC State .66) has had a points per possession under .85.
– Seven of the last eight opponents have points per possessions of at least .90 (.99 by Wake Forest, .93 by Syracuse, .96 by Boston College, 1.06 by Virginia Tech, .95 by Miami, 1.18 by Pitt and 1.03 by Notre Dame).
– The opponents have had a points per possession greater than 1.0 in seven of the last nine halves.
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UNC-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Duke, 134-108.
• The Blue Devils have won 11 of the last 15 meetings in the series (since the start of the 2009-10 season). UNC had won six of seven from 2006-09.
• UNC is 47-52 against Duke in Durham, including 36-43 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. UNC is 41-47 all-time in Cameron, including games against teams other than Duke.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 11-16 at Carolina against Duke, including 6-7 at Cameron.
• The Tar Heels have played 242 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• Duke has shot 50 percent from the floor against UNC just four times in 27 games against Carolina in the Roy Williams era (the 2011 ACC final in Greensboro, 2013 in Chapel Hill, 2014 in Durham and 2015 in Durham).
• Carolina is 41-43 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 37 of the ACC's 63 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 19 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 30 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 24 times in the last 36 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2016). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won nine national championships in the last 35 seasons, four by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 19 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.
• Roy Williams is 12-19 against Duke – 11-16 at Carolina and 1-3 while the head coach at Kansas. During his 10-year tenure as Dean Smith's assistant, Carolina was 16-11 against the Blue Devils.
UNC VS. DUKE IN THE AP RANKINGS
• This is the first time UNC has been ranked higher than Duke in three consecutive games since the 2008 and 2009 seasons.
• Thursday's game is the 158th consecutive meeting in the series when at least one of the two schools was ranked in a national poll. The streak dates to Feb. 25, 1955.
• This is the 143rd consecutive meeting in which at least one school has been ranked in the Associated Press Top 20 or AP Top 25. Of those games, 128 contests have featured a team in the AP Top 10.
• Including Thursday's game, UNC has been ranked in the AP poll in 116 of the last 143 games against Duke and the Blue Devils have been ranked 99 times.
• This is the 163rd meeting between the two schools since the ACC began play in 1953-54 and the 160th time in that span at least one of those teams was ranked in the AP poll (the only games in which both teams were not ranked were in 1955 and 1960).
LAST YEAR AT CAMERON
UNC 76, DUKE 72
• Carolina won the ACC regular-season title by virtue of the win on the final day of the regular season.
• It was the fourth time in 11 years Duke won the first game in Chapel Hill and UNC countered by winning the return game in Durham. Prior to 2006, that had only happened once since the ACC was formed (in 1985).
• Carolina had a season-high 64 rebounds, including a season-high 27 offensive boards.
• Carolina scored 20 second-chance points and scored 42 of its 76 points in the paint.
• The Tar Heels won despite shooting only 28.6 percent from the floor in the second half.
• Carolina made 20 of 23 free throws (.870), including 8 for 8 in the final 26 seconds.
• All-America forward Brice Johnson led UNC with 18 points and 21 rebounds (12 offensive). He had 47 points and 40 rebounds in two games against Duke last year.
• Kennedy Meeks had 12 points and 14 rebounds (six offensive), Justin Jackson scored 13 and Joel Berry II had 12 points and seven rebounds.
• Theo Pinson had six points, five rebounds and four assists. He made two key free throws with 26 seconds to play.
