Tar Heels To Host Stanford In Home Opener On Monday

Monday, November 12

Chapel Hill

7:00 PM

North Carolina

Stanford

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November 11, 2018 | Men's Basketball

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GAME THREE NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 2-0 and plays host to Stanford in the 2018-19 home opener.
• The Tar Heels have two road wins already, having beaten Wofford, 78-67, and Elon, 116-67. Four different players – two in each win – have scored 20 points or more in the first two games (Maye 24, Brooks 20 at Wofford; Johnson and Little 21 at Elon).
• It's the first time in more than 50 years four different Tar Heels scored 20 points in the first two games.
• Carolina is 101-7 all-time in home openers, winning 85 of its last 87 and 16 in a row. UNC has lost its home opener just twice since the 1928-29 season — in 1999-2000 to Michigan State and in 2001-02 to Hampton.
• UNC is 29-2 in home openers in the Smith Center.
• Carolina has won 10 consecutive games against Pac-12 opponents and is 11-1 against Pac-12 teams under head coach Roy Williams.

CAROLINA VS. STANFORD SERIES NOTES

• UNC is 11-0 against the Cardinal, including a 96-72 win at Stanford's Maples Pavilion last season.
• Stanford's head coach is Jerod Haase, who played for Roy Williams at Kansas and was an assistant coach/staff member at Carolina from 2003-12.
• UNC is 2-0 against Stanford in Chapel Hill, including an 89-55 win in Carmichael Auditorium on 12/20/85, and an 87-76 win in the Smith Center on 11/28/88.
• UNC's 11-0 record is the second-most wins without a loss against any opponent. The Tar Heels are 19-0 all-time vs. The Citadel.

LAST MEETING
UNC 96, STANFORD 72, NOV. 20, 2017
• Kenny Williams scored a career-high 20 points and made a career-high six three-pointers in Carolina's 96-72 win at Stanford.
• Williams scored all 20 of his points in the first 9:03 as UNC built a 26-11 lead. He scored UNC's first 14 points on four threes and a layup to give UNC a 14-11 lead at the 14:28 mark.
• Williams made six threes in the first half. That was the most threes ever by a Tar Heel in a first half and equaled the second-most threes in a half by a Tar Heel. They were the most in a half since Wayne Ellington made seven in the second half vs. Miami in 2009.
• Senior Joel Berry II scored a game-high 29 points (18 in the first half, 11 in the second).
• Luke Maye had a game-high nine rebounds and had a then-career-high five assists.
• Freshmen Garrison Brooks, Brandon Huffman and Sterling Manley combined for 15 points and 13 rebounds.

GAME 2: UNC 116, ELON 67
• The 116 points are the most by the Tar Heels since a 116-48 win over UNC Asheville in Chapel Hill on 11/30/2008.
• The 116 points tie the most points in the Roy Williams era.
• It was the 60th time the Tar Heels scored 100 or more points in the Roy Williams era. The Tar Heels are 58-2 when scoring 100 or more points under Williams.
• The 49-point win was the largest road win in the Roy Williams era.
• Carolina held Elon to 16.1 percent shooting from the floor in the second half (5 of 31 field goal attempts). That is the lowest in a half by an opponent in the Roy Williams era (previous low was 16.7 percent by Radford in the second half of an 2009 NCAA Tournament first round game).
• All 15 players who played scored for the Tar Heels. Walker Miller did not play due to a strained calf.
• Graduate student Cameron Johnson and freshman Nassir Little led the Tar Heels with 21 points apiece. Johnson and Little became the third and fourth Tar Heels in two games to score 20 or more points (Luke Maye had 24 and Garrison Brooks 20 at Wofford).
• It was the ninth 20-point game in Johnson's college career (fourth as a Tar Heel).
• Little is the first Tar Heel freshman to score 20 points in a game since Justin Jackson had 22 against Virginia in the 2015 ACC Tournament.
• Maye had a game-high 10 rebounds, the 22nd time in his career he pulled down 10 or more boards.
• Carolina point guards Coby White, Seventh Woods and Leaky Black combined for 12 assists and only one turnover.
• Woods had five assists and no turnovers. It was the most assists since he had six against Long Beach in his third game as a freshman and it was the most assists without a turnover in his career.
• Carolina's freshmen – Little (21), White (14) and Black (8) combined to score 43 points.
• Carolina's bench out-scored Elon's starters, 65-51.
• Carolina's 63 points in the first half were its most in a half since 1/4/2016 at Florida State, when UNC scored 65 in the second half.
• Carolina scored 1.19 points per possession in the first half – 63 points on 53 possessions.
• The Tar Heels had 106 total possessions, more than any game last season (high of 99 vs. Portland).
• Ten Tar Heels scored in the first half and three scored in double figures in the half – Johnson (16 ), White (11) and Little (10).
• The Tar Heels are now 30-15 in all non-conference road games in Williams' 16 years as UNC's head coach.

GAME 1: UNC 78, WOFFORD 67
• Luke Maye led all scorers with 24 points, Garrison Brooks scored 13 of his career-high 20 in the opening half and Cameron Johnson added five three-pointers in UNC's 78-67 win at Wofford.
• The win improved UNC to 97-12 in season-opening games, including 15-1 under Roy Williams.
• It was Maye's 14th career 20-point game.
• Maye has scored 50 points in Carolina's last two season openers (26 vs. UNI in 2017-18).
• Brooks made a career-high nine field goals (previous was five). It was the sixth time he scored in double figures. His previous high was 14 against Northern Iowa in the 2017-18 opener.
• Johnson played in his 100th collegIate game. He was 5 for 7 from three-point range. It was the seventh time he made at least five threes in a game (third time as a Tar Heel.)
• Johnson scored 17 points and led UNC in rebounds (8) and offensive rebounds (5).
• Johnson broke a 46-all tie with a three, and added two more threes in a 14-5 UNC run that gave the Tar Heels a 60-51 lead.
• Kenny Williams did not score, but led UNC with five assists and played outstansing defense against Southern Conference preseason Player of the Year Fletcher Magee (helping to hold Magee to 7-23 shooting from the floor, 3-16 from three-point range).
• Freshmen Coby White and Nassir Little combined for 15 points and five assists.
• White became the 35th Tar Heel to start his first game as a freshman (the 15th under Roy Williams).

THE 2018-19 TAR HEELS
• Carolina returns 11 players from a year ago and adds six newcomers (including a transfer, Ryan McAdoo, who will red-shirt).
• The 11 returnees include four who combined to make 109 starts last season (Luke Maye 37, Kenny Williams 36, Cameron Johnson 20 and Garrison Brooks 16).
• Williams has made 60 career starts, including 22 as a sophomore in UNC's national championship season in 2016-17.
• Johnson has 56 collegiate starts – 34 at Pittsburgh, where he played for three seasons and earned his undergraduate degree in communications. He is a second-year graduate student in sports administration.
• Maye has 40 career starts. He started one game as a sophomore, at Duke, in 2016-17.
• Carolina returns 1,950 of 3,018 points from a year ago (64.6 percent), 1,047 of 1,570 rebounds (66.7 percent) and 334 of 674 assists (49.6 percent).
• Maye (16.9 ppg), Johnson (12.4) and Williams (11.4) were the second-, third- and fourth-leading scorers last year.
• Maye led the team and was second in the ACC in rebounding at 10.1 per game. He was also seventh in the league in scoring and field goal percentage.
• Maye is one of three returning players who ranked among the top 10 in ACC scoring last season with Tyus Battle of Syracuse (third) and Ky Bowman of Boston College (sixth).

AP POLL
• Carolina is No. 8 in the Associated Press preseason poll.
• This is the 13th time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams UNC is in the preseason Top 10.
• Carolina is ranked in an AP poll for the 896th time, second-most in college basketball history.
• UNC is ranked in the top 10 for the 670th time, most in ACC history and second-most all-time behind Kentucky's 685.
• This is the 56th time in 71 seasons of the poll the Tar Heels have been ranked in the top 10 in at least one week of the poll.
• UNC finished the year in the AP poll top 10 10 times in Williams' first 15 seasons.
• Carolina has finished in the top 10 of the AP poll 37 times, including 26 of the last 38 years.
• Carolina is seventh in the coaches poll.

PRESEASON PICKS
• Carolina was picked to finish third in the conference at ACC Media Day (on Oct. 24) behind Duke and Virginia.
• Other preseason ACC rankings include: No. 2 by Athlon and Lindy's and No. 3 by Blue Ribbon Yearbook and Street & Smith's.
• National predictions include: No, 6 by Lindy's, No. 7 by Athlon and Street & Smith's and No. 12 by Blue Ribbon.
• Senior forward Luke Maye (Huntersville, N.C.) was selected the ACC Preseason Player of the Year at ACC Media Day. He is the first Tar Heel to be named preseason player of the year since Marcus Paige in 2014-15 and 2015-16.
• Maye was named Sports Illustrated's No. 1 candidate for National Player of the Year, the top player in the country by Lindy's and a player of the year candidate for the NABC award. He was ranked the fourth-best player in the country by NBC, the ninth-best player by Athlon and a preseason first-team All-America by the AP, ESPN.com, Sporting News, Blue Ribbon, Lindy's and Street & Smith's.
• Freshman forward Nassir Little (Orange Park, Fla.) was named third-team All-America by Athlon, fourth-team All-America by NBC Sports, first-team All-ACC by Athlon and second-team All-ACC by Lindy's.
• NBC Sports ranked Little the No. 3 wing in the country; Athlon named Little the No. 3 impact freshman and No. 11 overall player in the country.
• Maye is a candidate for the Basketball Hall of Fame's Karl Malone Award (power forward) and Little for the Julius Erving Award (small forward).
• Maye and Little are pre-season candidates to watch for the John R. Wooden Award (Los Angeles Athletic Club) and the Citizen Naismith Trophy (Atlanta Tipoff Club) to the National Player of the Year.
• Carolina's front court was ranked No. 4 in the nation by Lindy's.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Cameron Johnson has scored 944 points at Pittsburgh (583) and UNC (361). He needs 56 points to reach 1,000.
• Luke Maye has scored 889 career points and needs 111 for 1,000. Maye needs 30 three-pointers to become the 28th Tar Heel to make at least 100 and needs 128 rebounds to become the 28th Tar Heel with 700 or more.
• Kenny Williams has scored 608 points and needs 392 for 1,000.
• Seventy-six (76) Tar Heels have scored 1,000 or more career points. That's more than any other school in college basketball history. Louisville is second with 68 and Duke is third with 67.
• Carolina is 198-16 alltime in the Smith Center against non-ACC opponents. UNC needs two wins to reach 200.
• Carolina has played in 49 NCAA Tournaments. Should UNC advance to the 2019 NCAA Tournament, Carolina would become the second school with Kentucky to play in at least 50 NCAA Tournaments.

NUMBER ONE IN WINS PER SEASON
• This is the 109th season of Carolina Basketball. The Tar Heels have won 2,234 games, third most in NCAA history.
• Carolina has won an average of 20.7 games per season. UNC is the only school in the top 10 in all-time NCAA wins that has averaged at least 20 wins per season.

HURRICANE RELIEF
• Carolina Basketball and head coach Roy Williams donated $23,400 to provide relief from Hurricane Florence at Late Night with Roy!
• Carolina donated $11,700 ($100 for each of 117 made baskets over a four-minute, 15-second shooting drill) from the proceeds from the team's sale of autographed basketballs.
• Williams and his wife, Wanda, matched that with a $11,700 gift of their own.
• Fifty percent of the combined proceeds will go to the University's Disaster Relief Fund (https://ccps.unc.edu/news-events/disaster-relief/unc-disaster-relief-funds/) and 50 percent went to the Hurricane Florence Student Emergency Fund.

ROY WILLIAMS COURT
• On 8/23/18, Carolina officially dedicated the Tar Heels' home floor as Roy Williams Court at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The dedication was part of a two-day Carolina Basketball reunion of more than 300 players, coaches, managers and staff.

NO. 1 SCHEDULE IN THE COUNTRY
• Carolina's 2018-19 schedule is rated the No. 1 most difficult schedule in the country by NCAA.com.
• Carolina is scheduled to play 10 teams that are ranked in the preseason Top 25 by the Associated Press, including No. 2 Kentucky (in Chicago), No. 3 Gonzaga (home), No. 4 Duke (home and away), No. 5 Virginia (home) and possibly No. 10 Michigan State (in Las Vegas).
• Other opponents in the Top 25 include No. 15 Virginia Tech (home), No. 16 Syracuse (home), No. 17 Florida State (home), No. 19 Michigan (away), No, 21 UCLA (possible opponent in Las Vegas) and No. 22 Clemson (away).
• Carolina and Florida are the only two schools in the country that play six non-conference games against teams that played in the 2018 NCAA Tournament (Texas, Michigan State or UCLA, Michigan, Gonzaga, Kentucky and Davidson).
• UNC also plays eight ACC teams that played in the 2018 NCAA Tournament for a total of 14 opponents (at least 17 games) against last year's NCAA field.

THREE NON-ACC ROAD GAMES
• Carolina opened the season with non-conference road games at Wofford and Elon and plays at Michigan in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Nov. 28.
• UNC is one of 14 schools in the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Pac 12 that play three or more road games (Stanford is the only one to play four).
• UNC and Georgia Tech are the only ACC schools to play three non-conference road games.
• Including this season, Carolina will have played 42 non-conference, regular season road games in Roy Williams' 16 years as Carolina's head coach. That equals the third most in the ACC behind Georgia Tech (45) and Wake Forest (44). Virginia Tech is tied with UNC with 42.

FOUR IN DECEMBER
• Carolina plays just four times in December – home games against UNCW (12/5), Gonzaga (12/15) and Davidson (12/29) and the CBS Sports Classic game vs. Kentucky in Chicago (12/22).
• This is the first time since 1961-62 the Tar Heels have played this few games in December. That season was Dean Smith's first as UNC's head coach; the Tar Heels played only three times in December 1961.

NEW VIDEO BOARDS
• New at the Smith Center this season are four video boards, one in each corner of the upper deck. Each of the boards measure 1,875 square feet, which is greater than the combined size of the previous four boards (432 sq. ft. each).
• The boards include 8.9 million LEDs, provide more than 7,500 sq. ft. of display space and have a resolution of 1080p.

HALL OF FAMERS SCOTT, PERKINS
• Charlie Scott was inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September. Scott became the 10th Tar Heel enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
• Scott joins Tar Heels Ben Carnevale (inducted in 1970), Frank McGuire (1977), Dean Smith (1983), Billy Cunningham (1986), Bob McAdoo (2000), Larry Brown (2002), James Worthy (2003), Roy Williams (2007) and Michael Jordan (2009).
• Sam Perkins will be inducted in the NABC College Basketball Hall of Fame on Nov. 18 in Kansas City.
• Perkins will become the 11th Tar Heel in the College Hall of Fame with Brown, Carnevale, Cunningham, Phil Ford, McAdoo, McGuire, Scott, Smith, Williams and Worthy.