Tar Heels Head To FSU Wednesday

• Carolina travels to Tallahassee, Fla., to play the 11-2 Florida State Seminoles on 1/3/18, UNC's first ACC road game of the season.
• The Tar Heels are 12-2 overall and 1-0 in ACC play after a 73-69 home win over Wake Forest on 12/30/17.
• UNC went 11-2 in regular-season, non-conference action.
• The Tar Heels are 6-1 away from the Smith Center this year, including 3-0 on the road with wins at Stanford, Davidson and Tennessee.
• Roy Williams has led Carolina to a winning record in ACC road games in each of the last seven seasons and in 11 of 14 seasons as UNC's head coach.
• No other school has a streak of winning records in ACC away games for more than one season. Notre Dame and Virginia were the only other schools with winning records in ACC road games last year, but neither accomplished that in 2015-16.
• Williams has a 75-42 record in ACC road games, the second-highest winning percentage (.641) in ACC history.

UNC's ACC Road Record under Roy Williams
2003-04 2-6
2004-05 6-2
2005-06 7-1
2006-07 4-4
2007-08 8-0
2008-09 6-2
2009-10 2-6
2010-11 6-2
2011-12 7-1
2012-13 5-4
2013-14 5-4
2014-15 6-3
2015-16 6-3
2016-17 5-4

• Williams has won 828 games, two shy of tying Mt. St. Mary's Jim Phelan for seventh place in wins by a Division I head coach.
• The Florida State game is Theo Pinson's 100th game as a Tar Heel. Carolina is 81-18 in games in which Pinson has played (he missed 33 games in his freshman and junior seasons due to injuries).
• Carolina's next five games against Florida State (36), Virginia (15), Boston College (66), Notre Dame (72) and Clemson (14) are against teams in the top 75 in the RPI.

CAROLINA-FLORIDA STATE
• Carolina is 49-12 against Florida State, including 39-11 since the Seminoles joined the ACC.
• Carolina is 17-5 against FSU in Tallahassee.
• The Tar Heels have won the last seven games in the series, including three in a row in the Tucker Center.
• Carolina beat Florida State, 106-90, on 1/4/16 the last time these teams played at the Tucker Center. Brice Johnson had 39 points and 23 rebounds and Marcus Paige added 30 points. The Tar Heels led 41-37 at the half, then scored 65 points over the final 20 minutes.
• Roy Williams is 20-5 overall against FSU, including 19-5 as UNC's head coach.
• This is the 11th meeting between UNC and FSU in which both teams are ranked in the AP poll. Carolina is 6-4 in the previous 10 games when both teams are ranked.

Both Teams Ranked in AP Poll (UNC leads, 6-4)
1972 Final Four– #10 FSU def. #2 UNC, 75-79
1992 away– #22 FSU def. #10 UNC, 96-110
1992 ACC– #20 UNC def. #18 FSU, 80-76
1993 home–#3 UNC def. #19 FSU, 82-77
1993 away– #3 UNC def. #6 FSU, 86-76
1997 away– #1 UNC def. #17 FSU, 81-73
1998 home– #2 UNC def. #20 FSU, 103-55
2009 ACC– #22 FSU def. #1 UNC, 70-73
2012 ACC– #17 FSU def. #4 UNC, 82-85
2017 home – #11 UNC def. #9 FSU, 96-83
2018 away – #12 UNC vs. #24 FSU

LAST YEAR IN CHAPEL HILL
• Carolina was ranked lower than FSU for just the second time in 61 games in the series, but the Tar Heels won, 96-83. UNC was 11th (AP), while the Seminoles were No. 9.
• Joel Berry (26), Isaiah Hicks (22) and Justin Jackson (22) led UNC in scoring. It was the first time three Tar Heels scored 20 points in a game in six years.
• Carolina out-rebounded the Seminoles, 56-34, and scored 25 second-chance points. Carolina had 21 offensive rebounds; Florida State had 25 defensive boards.
• Luke Maye grabbed a (then) career-high 15 rebounds.
• Theo Pinson, playing in his third game of the season, had his first career double-double with 12 points and a career-best 10 rebounds. He also had three assists and a steal.

GAME 14: UNC 73, WAKE FOREST 69
• The Tar Heels closed on an 8-0 run to beat the Deacons, 73-69, in the ACC opener for both teams.
• Theo Pinson had an offensive rebound and assist (to Luke Maye) and two free throws to tie the game at 69 with 51 seconds to play.
• Joel Berry II (16 points) hit a runner with 11 seconds to play for the lead and Kenny Williams iced the win with two free throws.
• Carolina held the Deacs without a point on their last four possessions.
• Carolina finished the calendar year 2017 with a 33-7 record spanning two seasons.
• Carolina is now 53-12 in ACC season-openers, including 10-5 under Roy Williams.
• Carolina has won 12 straight ACC home games.
• Wake Forest shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half, just the third time an opponent has shot 50 percent or better in a half this year (Michigan .517 in the first half, Wofford.500 in the second half).
• Carolina shot 39.7 percent from the floor. That's the first time since the Gonzaga game (2017 national championship game) the Tar Heels have won when shooting under 40 percent from the floor.
• The Deacons missed 40 shots. The Tar Heels grabbed 35 of the misses and did not allow Wake Forest to score a single second-chance point.
• Carolina's last three opponents (Wofford, Ohio State and Wake Forest) have combined for 14 offensive rebounds. Those three opponents have scored a total of seven second-chance points.
• Wake Forest out-scored UNC 13-4 in points off turnovers. The nine-point advantage is the largest by an opponent this year.
• Carolina has been out-scored 29-12 in points off turnovers in its last two home games (8-16 in loss vs. Wofford).
• The Deacs out-scored the Tar Heels 15-5 in fastbreak points. Bucknell (10) was the only team to score in double figures in fastbreak points prior to this game. UNC's five matches its season low (also vs. Northern Iowa in the season opener).
• It was the first time this season an opponent out-scored UNC in fastbreak points (tied three other times).
• The win was the 399th for UNC in the Smith Center. Carolina is 399-69 overall and 201-53 in league play in the Smith Center.
• Luke Maye led UNC with 17 points and 15 rebounds. It was the fifth time this year he led UNC in both scoring and rebounds.
• It was Maye's eighth double-double this season and ninth of his career.
• It was the fourth time in his career and third time this season he had at least 15 rebounds.
• Maye matched his career high with 18 field goal attempts.
• Theo Pinson led UNC with six assists, the 10th time in 14 games this year he has led UNC in assists. He had two offensive rebounds among his seven boards. The first came with 23 seconds left in the first half and the putback basket gave UNC a five-point lead; the second came with UNC trailing 69-65 with 2:06 to play. He grabbed a missed three by Maye, then fed Maye for his sixth assist of the game which cut the deficit to two. He also had two defensive boards in the final minute.
• Garrison Brooks matched his season high with five offensive rebounds (also at Tennessee).
• Cameron Johnson made a season-high three three-pointers and finished with 11 points, his third time in double figures in as many games as a Tar Heel.

FIFTH IN THE RPI
• Carolina is No. 5 in the nation in the NCAA's RPI behind Duke, Xavier, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Arizona State, Texas A&M, Seton Hall, Villanova and TCU are 6-10.
• Carolina's strength of schedule is the 17th-strongest in the country.
• Carolina's first 14 opponents have an average RPI of 104, which is the sixth-best in the country.

TRENDING...
• Luke Maye is averaging 12.3 rebounds over the last seven games and has 39 in the last three contests.
• Carolina set a school record last season with a rebound margin of 12.3 per game, which was the fourth-highest margin by any school in the country since 1980. UNC is slightly ahead of that figure at 12.6 over its first 14 games this season.
• The Tar Heels are second in the ACC and fifth in the country in rebounds per game (44.1) and second in the ACC and third in the country in rebound margin.
• Roy Williams' teams have finished in the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in 14 of his previous 29 seasons as a head coach, including ninth, ninth and first in the last three seasons.
• Carolina is fourth in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels' opponents are rebounding only 21.3 percent of their own misses. Only Boise State, Liberty and Milwaukee are grabbing a higher percentage of the opposition's missed shots.
• On the offensive end, Carolina is 26th in the country in rebounding. The Tar Heels are pulling down 35.7 percent of their own missed shots.
• Luke Maye is third in the country in defensive rebounds (8.4), 10th in rebounding (10.9) and 14th in double-doubles (8).
• Five Tar Heels averaging double-figure minutes are shooting 50 percent or better from the floor – Sterling Manley (.585), Garrison Brooks (.544), Luke Maye (.515), Kenny Williams (.508) and Andrew Platek (.500).
• Carolina is hitting 7.7 three-pointers per game, which is the third most in school history. The record is 8.3 per game in 2002-03. Last year, UNC made 7.1 per game.
• Carolina has scored 85 or more points 10 times (all wins), 90 or more points five times, 100 points twice and averaged 60.0 points in its two losses.
• The Tar Heels have shot 50 percent from the floor six times. UNC is shooting 47.3 percent for the season. That includes 49.8 percent in its 12 wins and 30.2 percent in the two losses.
• Carolina ranks 22nd nationally in KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency and 12th in adjusted defensive efficiency ratings.
• Carolina is third in the ACC in offensive efficiency behind Duke and Notre Dame and fourth in the ACC in defensive efficiency behind Virginia, Miami and Clemson. Florida State is fifth in the ACC and 19th nationally defensively.
• Carolina has scored 27.2 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That's the second-highest percentage in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as UNC's head coach.

SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs (last 15 seasons)
29.3 percent – 2012-13
27.2 percent – 2017-18
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05
25.3 percent – 2016-17

• Three Tar Heels averaging double-figure minutes are shooting 80 percent or better from the free throw line – Cameron Johnson (.917), Brandon Robinson (.889) and Joel Berry II (.875). Theo Pinson (.796) is just under 80 percent but has made 21 of his last 22 attempts, including two to tie the game with 51 seconds to play in the 73-69 win over Wake Forest.
• In Carolina's two losses, the Tar Heels shot 30.2 percent from the floor, made 8 of 43 three-pointers, shot 67.7 percent from the free throw line, got out-rebounded by 3.0 per game, committed 30 turnovers and scored just 60.0 points per game.
• UNC has won five in a row when the opponents make 10 or more three-pointers.
• UNC has won 10 in a row when the opponents shoot under 40 percent from the floor.
• UNC has won 11 in a row when it shoots 50 percent from the floor.
• UNC has won 12 in a row when it scores 80 points.
• UNC has won 16 in a row when it leads at the half.

IN THE POLLS
• Carolina is ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press poll that was released on New Year's Day. The Tar Heels are No. 11 in the coaches poll.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 70th consecutive week (last four weeks in 2013-14, all 19 weeks in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 and the first nine weeks this season).
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 886th time, most in college basketball history.
• Carolina and Duke have combined for 244 weeks all-time as the No. 1 team in the AP poll. That's 244 of 300 weeks as No. 1 by every current ACC school.
• The 2017-18 season is the 55th (out of 70) in which the Tar Heels have been ranked in the top 10.
• Carolina was No. 9 in this season's preseason AP poll. It marked the 12th time in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as head coach the Tar Heels entered the year ranked in the top 10. UNC has finished the year in the AP top 10 nine times in Williams' first 14 seasons.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Garrison Brooks

Cameron Johnson

Sterling Manley

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Andrew Platek

Brandon Robinson

Kenny Williams

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