Tar Heels Host Saint Francis Monday

Monday, November 19

Chapel Hill

8:00 PM

North Carolina

Saint Francis (Pa.)

Tickets

University of North Carolina Basketball v Tennessee TechDean E. Smith CenterChapel Hill, NCFriday, November 16, 2018

Carolina will host Saint Francis on Monday.

November 18, 2018 | Men's Basketball

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GAME FIVE NOTEBOOK
• Friday's win over Tennessee Tech was Carolina's 200th non-conference win in the Dean E. Smith Center. The Tar Heels are 200-16 against non-ACC teams in the Smith Center since beginning play in the arena in January 1986.
• Roy Williams has led the Tar Heels to a 212-30 record in the Smith Center, including a 112-5 record against non-ACC opponents.
• As of Sunday, Nov. 18, Carolina is ranked No.7 in the nation in the AP poll and is third in KenPom.com's statistical rating. The Tar Heels are ranked in the AP top 25 for the 82nd consecutive week and 898th overall.
• Cameron Johnson shared defensive player of the game honors with Garrison Brooks in the win over Tennessee Tech. It was Johnson's first award as a Tar Heel (ninth for Brooks).
• Carolina leaves for Las Vegas after practice on Tuesday.

CAROLINA VS. SAINT FRANCIS SERIES NOTES
• UNC is 1-0 against the Red Flash. The Tar Heels defeated Saint Francis, 103-54, on 1/2/2011 at the Smith Center.
• Eight Tar Heels scored in double figures, which is still the last time UNC has played a game in which more than six players scored 10 or more points.
• John Henson and Dexter Strickland scored a team-high 13, Henson added six blocked shots and Kendall Marshall dished out eight assists.
• Carolina shot 62.5 percent from the floor in the opening half, 55.9 in the second and 59.1 for the game.

SAINT FRANCIS
• The Red Flash are 1-2 after a 95-58 loss at 20th-ranked UCLA on Friday. Saint Francis is in the middle of a three-game stretch in which it plays consecutive road games at top 20 opponents. Following the game in Chapel Hill, the Red Flash next plays on 11/24 at No. 16 Virginia Tech.

GAME 4: UNC 108, TENNESSEE TECH 58
• Carolina won its 200th non-conference win in the Smith Center in 216 games.
• Carolina improved to 4-0 for the third straight season and ninth time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams.
• Season highs in assists (29 on 41 field goals), blocks (8), steals (16), free throws (21 for 26), rebound margin (54-24) and scoring margin (108-58).
• The Tar Heels shot a season-high 55.5 percent from the floor (55.6 and 55.3 in the two halves). UNC has shot 50 percent or better from the floor in five of eight halves this season.
• UNC scored 50 and 58 points by half, and has scored 50 or more points in five of the last six halves.
• Carolina has led by 26 and 24 points at the half in the last two games.
• The Tar Heels were credited with 29 fastbreak points, more than any game in at least three seasons. The season-high last year was 21.
• Carolina scored 30 second-chance points, most since scoring 36 against Nicholls on 12/19/2011.
• The 50-point margin of victory is UNC's largest since beating NC State by 51 on 1/8/2017.
• Carolina scored 1.09 points per possession (108 points on 99 possessions) and held the Golden Eagles to .64 (58 points on 91 possessions).
• Seventh Woods had a career-high eight assists (previous was six against Long Beach on 11/15/2016).
• Woods made a three-pointer and scored seven points, all in the first half. It was the third 3FG of Woods career. He last made a three at Hawai'I on 11/18/16. The seven points were the most he scored since he had a career-high nine points against Northern Iowa in the first game of his sophomore season.
• Woods tied his career-best with three field goals.
• Woods has 20 assists and four turnovers this year. He had 69 and 54 in his first two seasons, including 20 assists in 20 games last season.
• Luke Maye led six Tar Heels in double figures with 15 points. It was the 38th time in his career he has scored in double figures.
• Cameron Johnson scored 10 points. He is the only Tar Heel to score in double figures in all four games this year.
• Sterling Manley scored a season-high 13, the second-most points in his career. He tied his career high with six field goals (also against Bucknell on 11/15/2017).

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).
• Entering the Saint Francis game, Williams has made 62 career starts, including 22 as a sophomore in UNC's national championship season in 2016-17.
• Johnson has 58 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 42 career starts. He started one game as a sophomore, at Duke, in 2016-17.

AP POLL (as of Sunday, Nov. 18)
• Carolina is No. 7 in this week's Associated Press after beginning the season in the eighth spot.
• Carolina is ranked this week in an AP poll for the 898th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• This is the 82nd consecutive AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked, dating back to mid-conference play in the 2013-14 season.
• This was the 13th time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams UNC was ranked in the preseason Top 10.
• UNC is ranked in the top 10 this week for the 671st time, most in ACC history and second-most all-time behind Kentucky's 686.
• 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 in 10 of Williams' first 15 seasons.
• Carolina has finished in the top 10 of the AP poll 37 times, including 26 of the last 38 years.

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 971 points at Pittsburgh (583) and UNC (388). He needs 29 points to reach 1,000.
• Luke Maye has scored 920 career points and needs 80 for 1,000. Maye needs 29 three-pointers to become the 28th Tar Heel to make at least 100, needs two rebounds for 600 and 102 rebounds to become the 28th Tar Heel with 700 or more.
• 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 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 2,236 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.

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 were 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.

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 was 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.

VITALE'S MOUNT RUSHMORE
• ESPN's Dick Vitale is commemorating his 40th year in broadcasting with a book titled "Dick Vitale's Mount Rushmores of College Basketball."
• Vitale's Mount Rushmore includes Dean Smith, Roy Williams, Bob Knight and Mike Krzyzewski.
• Co-authored with Hall of Fame writer Dick Weiss, the book will be available in November at DickVitaleOnline.com with all the proceeds going to reaching a goal of $4 million to benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research.