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University of North Carolina Athletics
Thursday, November 22
Las Vegas, Nev.
7:30 PM
North Carolina
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Texas
Senior Luke Maye
Photo by: Rebecca Lawson
Tar Heels Face Longhorns In Las Vegas Thursday
November 21, 2018 | Men's Basketball
GAME SIX NOTEBOOK
• Carolina returns to Las Vegas for the fourth time as the Tar Heels play two games at Orleans Arena in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational.
• UNC plays Texas on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 22) and either Michigan State or UCLA on Nov. 23.
• This is Carolina's third appearance in the Las Vegas Invitational. UNC won the event in 2007-08 (beating Old Dominion and BYU). In 2011-12, the Tar Heels beat South Carolina and lost to UNLV. UNC is 3-1 in Orleans Arena.
• The Tar Heels were ranked No. 1 in the nation in its two previous appearances in the Las Vegas Invitational.
• This is Carolina's first game in Las Vegas since 12/17/2016 when Kentucky beat the Tar Heels, 103-100 at T-Mobile Arena in the CBS Sports Classic.
• Thursday's game vs. Texas marks the second year in a row and the fourth time overall the Tar Heels will play on Thanksgiving. Last year, UNC beat Portland, 102-78, in Portland, Ore., in PK80; on 11/27/2014, Carolina beat UCLA in the Bahamas; and on 11/27/1997, the Tar Heels beat UCLA, 109-68, in the Great Alaska Shootout.
• The Texas game begins a six-game stretch through Christmas in which five of Carolina's opponents are ranked in the top 40 in KenPom.com (Texas 27, Michigan State 12 or UCLA 39, Michigan 7, Gonzaga 6, Kentucky 11).
• Cameron Johnson is nine shy of 1,000 career points. The graduate student scored 583 points in 73 games over parts of three seasons at Pitt and has 408 points in 31 games in two seasons as a Tar Heel. Seventy-six Tar Heels have scored 1,000 points, eight more than any school in college basketball history.
UNC-TEXAS SERIES
• The Longhorns lead the series, 7-3.
• Williams is 7-7 all-time against Texas (6-1 as head coach at Kansas and 1-6 as head coach of the Tar Heels).
• Texas is tied with Navy for the highest winning percentage against Carolina among teams that have played UNC 10 or more times.
• Texas has won three in a row and seven of the last eight.
• This is the first meeting since 12/12/2015, an 84-82 Longhorn win in Austin. Javan Felix of Texas hit a shot at the buzzer for the win. Marcus Paige led UNC with 20 points. The game featured several statistical oddities:
– Texas limited Carolina to four offensive rebounds, at the time its fewest in the Roy Williams era;
– Texas shot 50 percent from three-point range (12 of 24);
– The Tar Heels committed only six turnovers in the loss;
– It was the 162nd game under Williams the Tar Heels shot 50 percent or better from the field and just the third UNC lost when doing that.
• Five of Carolina's seven losses against Texas have been by three points or fewer, including an 86-83 Longhorn victory on 12/18/2013 in Chapel Hill in which Carolina shot just 24 of 47 from the free throw line.
GAME 5: CAROLINA 101, SAINT FRANCIS 76
• Carolina improved to 5-0 for the third year in a row and the seventh time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams.
• Carolina went on an 11-0 run after Saint Francis out-scored the Tar Heels, 16-6, to begin the second half to close within 58-52.
• Carolina scored 100 or more points for the second game in a row and the third time in the last four games.
• It was the 62nd time UNC has scored 100 or points in the Roy Williams era. UNC is 60-2 in those games.
• It was the first time UNC scored 100 points in consecutive games since the 2016 Maui Invitational against Chaminade and Oklahoma State.
• UNC scored 52 points in the first half, the third straight half with 50 or more and the sixth in seven halves.
• Carolina shot 51.4 and 53.6 percent per half (52.3 for the game).
• Carolina has shot 50 percent or better from the floor in seven of 10 halves this season, including each of the last four.
• Carolina attempted 16 three-pointers in the first half, most in a half this year (previous was 13 in the second half at Elon). The Tar Heels attempted nine in the second half.
• Carolina made a season-high 10 threes and attempted a season-high 24.
• Carolina made a season-high 23 free throws and tied its season high for FT attempts with 27.
• Carolina committed a season-high 18 turnovers (previous 15 at Wofford).
• Carolina is now 201-16 in non-conference games in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Saint Francis had a season-high 96 possessions by the opponents.
• Saint Francis was 14 for 16 from the free throw line in the first half. The 16 attempts were the most in a half against UNC this year.
• Cameron Johnson led UNC in scoring with 20 points. It was his second 20-point game of the season and the 10th of his career (five times at Pitt and five as a Tar Heel).
• Johnson is the only Tar Heel to score in double figures in all five games.
• It was the third time this year Johnson has led UNC in scoring (six times in two seasons as a Tar Heel).
• Luke Maye had his first double-double of the season with 11 points and 10 rebounds. It was his 19th career double-double.
• Kenny Williams tied his previous career high in assists with six in the first half and finished with a career-best nine.
• Seventh Woods had two turnovers in his first 3:00 of action, then finished with six assists without a turnover over his next 14 minutes. For the game, Woods had seven assists and two turnovers.
• Woods also had a career-high four steals.
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures – Johnson (20), Nassir Little (19), Coby White (season-high 16), Maye (11) and Brandon Robinson (career-high 11).
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 now made 63 career starts, including 22 as a sophomore in UNC's national championship season in 2016-17.
• Johnson has 59 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 43 career starts. He started one game as a sophomore, at Duke, in 2016-17.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press poll for the second week in a row.
• Carolina is ranked this week in an AP poll for the 899th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• This is the 83rd 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 672nd time, most in ACC history and second-most all-time behind Kentucky's 687.
• 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.
• UNC is No. 6 in this week's 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 991 points at Pittsburgh (583) and UNC (408). He needs nine points to reach 1,000.
• Luke Maye has scored 931 career points and needs 69 for 1,000. Maye needs 28 three-pointers to become the 28th Tar Heel to make at least 100 and 92 rebounds to become the 28th Tar Heel with 700 or more. He reached the 600-rebound mark with 10 against Saint Francis.
• 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 2,237 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.
• Carolina returns to Las Vegas for the fourth time as the Tar Heels play two games at Orleans Arena in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational.
• UNC plays Texas on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 22) and either Michigan State or UCLA on Nov. 23.
• This is Carolina's third appearance in the Las Vegas Invitational. UNC won the event in 2007-08 (beating Old Dominion and BYU). In 2011-12, the Tar Heels beat South Carolina and lost to UNLV. UNC is 3-1 in Orleans Arena.
• The Tar Heels were ranked No. 1 in the nation in its two previous appearances in the Las Vegas Invitational.
• This is Carolina's first game in Las Vegas since 12/17/2016 when Kentucky beat the Tar Heels, 103-100 at T-Mobile Arena in the CBS Sports Classic.
• Thursday's game vs. Texas marks the second year in a row and the fourth time overall the Tar Heels will play on Thanksgiving. Last year, UNC beat Portland, 102-78, in Portland, Ore., in PK80; on 11/27/2014, Carolina beat UCLA in the Bahamas; and on 11/27/1997, the Tar Heels beat UCLA, 109-68, in the Great Alaska Shootout.
• The Texas game begins a six-game stretch through Christmas in which five of Carolina's opponents are ranked in the top 40 in KenPom.com (Texas 27, Michigan State 12 or UCLA 39, Michigan 7, Gonzaga 6, Kentucky 11).
• Cameron Johnson is nine shy of 1,000 career points. The graduate student scored 583 points in 73 games over parts of three seasons at Pitt and has 408 points in 31 games in two seasons as a Tar Heel. Seventy-six Tar Heels have scored 1,000 points, eight more than any school in college basketball history.
UNC-TEXAS SERIES
• The Longhorns lead the series, 7-3.
• Williams is 7-7 all-time against Texas (6-1 as head coach at Kansas and 1-6 as head coach of the Tar Heels).
• Texas is tied with Navy for the highest winning percentage against Carolina among teams that have played UNC 10 or more times.
• Texas has won three in a row and seven of the last eight.
• This is the first meeting since 12/12/2015, an 84-82 Longhorn win in Austin. Javan Felix of Texas hit a shot at the buzzer for the win. Marcus Paige led UNC with 20 points. The game featured several statistical oddities:
– Texas limited Carolina to four offensive rebounds, at the time its fewest in the Roy Williams era;
– Texas shot 50 percent from three-point range (12 of 24);
– The Tar Heels committed only six turnovers in the loss;
– It was the 162nd game under Williams the Tar Heels shot 50 percent or better from the field and just the third UNC lost when doing that.
• Five of Carolina's seven losses against Texas have been by three points or fewer, including an 86-83 Longhorn victory on 12/18/2013 in Chapel Hill in which Carolina shot just 24 of 47 from the free throw line.
GAME 5: CAROLINA 101, SAINT FRANCIS 76
• Carolina improved to 5-0 for the third year in a row and the seventh time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams.
• Carolina went on an 11-0 run after Saint Francis out-scored the Tar Heels, 16-6, to begin the second half to close within 58-52.
• Carolina scored 100 or more points for the second game in a row and the third time in the last four games.
• It was the 62nd time UNC has scored 100 or points in the Roy Williams era. UNC is 60-2 in those games.
• It was the first time UNC scored 100 points in consecutive games since the 2016 Maui Invitational against Chaminade and Oklahoma State.
• UNC scored 52 points in the first half, the third straight half with 50 or more and the sixth in seven halves.
• Carolina shot 51.4 and 53.6 percent per half (52.3 for the game).
• Carolina has shot 50 percent or better from the floor in seven of 10 halves this season, including each of the last four.
• Carolina attempted 16 three-pointers in the first half, most in a half this year (previous was 13 in the second half at Elon). The Tar Heels attempted nine in the second half.
• Carolina made a season-high 10 threes and attempted a season-high 24.
• Carolina made a season-high 23 free throws and tied its season high for FT attempts with 27.
• Carolina committed a season-high 18 turnovers (previous 15 at Wofford).
• Carolina is now 201-16 in non-conference games in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Saint Francis had a season-high 96 possessions by the opponents.
• Saint Francis was 14 for 16 from the free throw line in the first half. The 16 attempts were the most in a half against UNC this year.
• Cameron Johnson led UNC in scoring with 20 points. It was his second 20-point game of the season and the 10th of his career (five times at Pitt and five as a Tar Heel).
• Johnson is the only Tar Heel to score in double figures in all five games.
• It was the third time this year Johnson has led UNC in scoring (six times in two seasons as a Tar Heel).
• Luke Maye had his first double-double of the season with 11 points and 10 rebounds. It was his 19th career double-double.
• Kenny Williams tied his previous career high in assists with six in the first half and finished with a career-best nine.
• Seventh Woods had two turnovers in his first 3:00 of action, then finished with six assists without a turnover over his next 14 minutes. For the game, Woods had seven assists and two turnovers.
• Woods also had a career-high four steals.
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures – Johnson (20), Nassir Little (19), Coby White (season-high 16), Maye (11) and Brandon Robinson (career-high 11).
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 now made 63 career starts, including 22 as a sophomore in UNC's national championship season in 2016-17.
• Johnson has 59 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 43 career starts. He started one game as a sophomore, at Duke, in 2016-17.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press poll for the second week in a row.
• Carolina is ranked this week in an AP poll for the 899th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• This is the 83rd 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 672nd time, most in ACC history and second-most all-time behind Kentucky's 687.
• 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.
• UNC is No. 6 in this week's 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 991 points at Pittsburgh (583) and UNC (408). He needs nine points to reach 1,000.
• Luke Maye has scored 931 career points and needs 69 for 1,000. Maye needs 28 three-pointers to become the 28th Tar Heel to make at least 100 and 92 rebounds to become the 28th Tar Heel with 700 or more. He reached the 600-rebound mark with 10 against Saint Francis.
• 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 2,237 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.
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