Tar Heels Visit NCSU Saturday

• Carolina plays at NC State on Saturday, Feb. 10th, the middle contest in a three-game stretch in five-days in which UNC also played Duke (Feb. 8) and hosts Notre Dame (Feb. 12).
• The Tar Heels are 18-7 overall, 7-5 in the ACC and 4-4 on the road this season.
• This is the first time UNC has played three regular-season ACC games in a span of five or fewer days since February 1991, when the Tar Heels played at NC State (2/6), NC State (2/7) and Virginia (2/9) in a span of four days. The second of those games was a makeup game from January when the State game in Chapel Hill was postponed due to the start of the Gulf War.
• This is the first time UNC has had three regular-season ACC games scheduled in a five-day span since 1980.
• UNC is the only team in the ACC that is scheduled to play three regular-season conference games in a five-day span this season.
• Carolina's last seven regular-season games include five games against teams in the top 50 in the NCAA's RPI (No. 7 Duke twice, No. 19 Miami, at No. 37 Syracuse and at No. 43 Louisville).
• Carolina plays home-and-home series this year against three of the other top seven teams in the current ACC standings. UNC plays one game each against six of the seven teams at the bottom of the current ACC standings.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 75th consecutive week and the 891st time overall.
• Carolina is 12th in KenPom's overall rankings – including 12th in offensive efficiency and 30th in defensive efficiency. NC State is 61st overall in KenPom – 48th in offense and 98th in defense.
• Carolina is 10th in the NCAA's RPI (as of 2/7). UNC's Carolina's opponents have an average RPI of 83, which is the third highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is ranked the third-most difficult in the nation.
• Carolina's first 25 opponents average the fifth-best offensive efficiency and the fifth-best defensive efficiency in the nation. Carolina is the only team whose opponents rank in the top five in the country on both ends of the court.
• Carolina has five wins over teams ranked this week in the AP top 20 (over No. 9 Duke, No. 14 Ohio State, No. 15 Tennessee, No. 16 Clemson and No. 20 Michigan). Two of UNC's seven losses have come against current top-five teams (No. 2 Virginia and No. 4 Michigan State).
• Joel Berry II is one of 10 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award (this is the second year in a row Berry is a finalist). Three Tar Heels have won the Bob Cousy Award, given to the top point guard in the nation – Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012.
• Luke Maye is one of 10 finalists for the Karl Malone Award as the nation's top power forward.
• Maye is one of 20 players on the John R. Wooden Award (national player of the year) late-season watch list. Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III are the only ACC players on the list.

CAROLINA-NC STATE SERIES
• The Tar Heels lead the series, 155-78, winning 21 of the last 24 games, 27 of the last 31 and 44 of the last 55 games against the Wolfpack.
• State beat the Tar Heels in overtime, 95-91, in Chapel Hill on January 27th.
• Roy Williams is 32-4 as a head coach against NC State, including a 5-0 record at Kansas and a 27-4 mark at Carolina.
• Carolina is 62-45 against NC State in Raleigh, including 14-4 in PNC Arena.
• Carolina is 18-4 in PNC Arena, including a pair of NCAA first and second round wins in 2008 and 2016 en route to Final Four appearances.
• Carolina has scored 80 or more points in eight of the last nine games vs. NC State.
• Last year, the Tar Heels shot 56 percent from the floor, scored 27 second-chance points and 60 points in the paint in a 97-73 win in Raleigh. Joel Berry II led UNC with 18 points and six assists.
• Luke Maye scored a then-career-high 13 points and had seven rebounds at NC State.
• Theo Pinson made his first start of the season in Raleigh and scored 12 points on 6 of 8 shooting from the floor.

JAN. 27TH IN CHAPEL HILL
NC STATE 95, UNC 91 (OT)
• Ended a 15-game win streak at home against ACC opponents, a 16-game streak when scoring 90 or more points and a 20-game streak when leading at the half.
• It was only the fifth time in 140 games under Roy Williams the Tar Heels lost when scoring 90 or more points.
• Carolina came into the game 15-0 whenleading at the half and 8-0 when shooting 50 percent from the floor this year. UNC led 41-38 at the half and shot 52.8 percent for the game.
• It was just the sixth time in 203 games under Roy Williams the Tar Heel shot 50 percent from the floor in a loss.
• Carolina shot a season-low 55.0 percent from the free throw line The Tar Heels were 11 of 20, including 9 of 17 in the second half and overtime.
• NC State's Allerik Freeman became the first UNC opponent to ever go 7 for 7 from three-point range. Geoff Brewer of Florida State (2/24/95) and Jordan Swing of UAB (12/1/12) were 5 for 5, which were the previous best games by percentage against UNC.
• NC State made 15 three-pointers, the most by an opponent in the first 22 games (previous was 14 at Davidson). State's three-point percentage (.500) was also the highest by an opponent.
• NC State scored 22 second-chance points and 22 points off turnovers.
• Three NC State players scored 20 or more points, the first time an opponent did that since Duke in 2010.
• Maye led all scorers with 31 points and added 11 rebounds. It was his 12th double-double, seventh game with at least 20 and 10, 10th game with at least 20 points and second with 30 or more points.
• Pinson had career highs in points (22), rebounds (15), field goals (10) and field goal attempts (16). It was Pinson's second double-double in the last three games and third of his career.
• It was the first game this season Berry, Johnson and Williams did not make a three-pointer. The trio was 0 for 9 from behind the arc.

GAME 25: UNC 82, DUKE 78
• Carolina overcame a 12-point deficit in the first half with a 27-8 run and held on for an 82-78 win over No. 9 Duke.
• Joel Berry led all scorers with 21 points and had six assists and no turnovers.
• It was Berry's 21st career 20-point game, eighth this season.
• It was the second game in a row Berry had six assists and no turnovers.
• Berry passed Walter Davis for 15th in career assists at UNC with 413 and passed Mitch Kupchak for 26th in career scoring with 1,614 points.
• Kenny Williams and Cameron Johnson combined for 38 points and 10 three-pointers.
• Williams tied his career high with 20 points, tied his career high with six three-pointers (both at Stanford on 11/20/17) and tied the UNC record for 3FGs against Duke (with Hubert Davis in 1992).
• It was the second straight game Williams scored in double figures (15 vs. Pitt). He has scored in double figures 17 times this year and the Tar Heels are 15-2 when he does.
• Johnson had a career-high 13 rebounds in his third career double-double. He had 18 points and made four three-pointers.
• Johnson had one double-double at Pitt and two at UNC this season.
• Carolina tied a school record with only two turnovers (also against Fairfield on 3/13/1997 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Winston-Salem).
• The two turnovers were the fewewst in an ACC game by UNC (previous low was three against Virginia in the 1982 ACC final and at Duke on 2/24/1979).
• The previous low in the Roy Williams era ws four on three occasions, including the 2017 national championship game victory over Gonzaga.
• UNC allowed only one point off turnovers – in the last two games the opponents have scored a total of five points off turnovers (four by Pitt and one by Duke)
• Entering the game, UNC and Duke were 1-2 in the nation in rebounds per game and 1-4 in the nation in rebound margin. Carolina out-rebounded the Blue Devils, 44-38, including 28-17 in the second half.
• Carolina had 20 offensive rebounds to 11 for the Blue Devils, and out-scored Duke, 12-7, on second-chance points.
• The 44 rebounds by the Tar Heels were the most by a Duke opponent this year (39 twice).
• The 20 offensive rebounds by the Tar Heels were the most against Duke this year (16 three times).
• UNC held Duke, the nation's highest scoring team, to 29 second-half points (second-fewest in a half by Duke this year).
• It was UNC's largest comeback win of the season. Duke led 40-28 with 6:15 to play in the first half. Previously, Carolina overcame a nine-point deficit in its win at Tennessee.
• Carolina attempted a season-high 33 three-pointers, the most ever by a Roy Williams team in his 15 years at Carolina. The previous high was 32 vs. Mississippi State in Maui on 11/19/2012.
• The 33 attempts were the second-most in an ACC game in UNC history.

NOTABLE...
• Joel Berry II is second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 235. Berry has made 62 threes in 24 games this year, the fourth most per game (2.58) ever by a Tar Heel. Berry's free throw percentage of .891 is the best in the ACC and second best in UNC single-season history.

Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (62 in 25 games)
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98
.891 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (82 of 92)
.878 – Jeff Lebo, 1987-88
.877 – Marcus Paige, 2013-14
.876 – Steve Hale, 1984-85
.871 – Darrell Elston, 1973-74
.868 – York Larese, 1959-60
.867 – Joel Berry II, 2015-16

• Berry made his 100th career start in the win over Duke.
• Luke Maye (18.2) and Joel Berry II (17.4) lead Carolina in scoring. The last time two Tar Heels averaged 17 points or more in the same season was 1983-84, when Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) were UNC's top scoring duo.
• Maye is on pace to become the sixth Tar Heel to average a double-double in the last 40 years with Brice Johnson (2016), John Henson (2011), Tyler Hansbrough (2008), Sean May (2005) and Antawn Jamison (1998).
• The Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (43.4) and rebound margin (11.4).

REBOUNDS PER GAME
43.4 – North Carolina
42.5 – Duke
42.0 – Wichita State
41.8 – Texas A&M
41.8 – Bethune-Cookman

REBOUND MARGIN
11.4 – North Carolina
10.5 – Wichita State
10.4 – Michigan State
9.7 – Duke
9.5 – Gonzaga

• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin four previous times in its history – three of those four seasons have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17 under Williams and the undefeated season in 1956-57).
• 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 third in the country in rebounding its own missed shots. The Tar Heels grab 38.4 percent of their own missed shots.

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING PERCENTAGE
.408 – Duke
.392 – Cincinnati
.383 – North Carolina
.370 – West Virginia
.368 – Michigan State

• Carolina is 29th in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels are rebounding 75.5 percent of the opponents' missed field goals and free throws.
• Luke Maye has led UNC in both scoring and rebounding nine times this season. UNC is 8-1 when Maye leads in both categories (loss at Virginia Tech).
• Maye leads UNC in blocked shots with 30. At 6-8, Maye would the shortest Tar Heel to lead the team in blocks since Danny Green (6-5) in 2006. Maye has blocked nine shots in the last four games.
• Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III are the only players in the top five in the ACC in both scoring and rebounding.
• Maye and Bagley are also the only players in the top 10 in the ACC in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
• Luke Maye has 12 double-doubles. He is tied for the seventh-most double-doubles in a season in the Roy Williams era.

Double-Doubles in a Season
(under Roy Williams, 10 or more)
23 by Brice Johnson, 2015-16
19 by Tyler Hansbrough, 2007-08
18 by John Henson, 2010-11 and 2011-12
18 by Sean May, 2004-05
14 by Tyler Zeller, 2011-12
13 by Kennedy Meeks, 2016-17
12 by Luke Maye, 2017-18
12 by Tyler Hansbrough, 2008-09
12 by Sean May, 2003-04
10 by Ed Davis, 2009-10
10 by Tyler Hansbrough, 2006-07

• Carolina is making 8.3 three-pointers per game, which ties the 2002-03 team for the highest per game average in school history, and is the most in the Roy Williams era. The previous high under Roy Williams was 7.6 in 2012-13 when UNC started four perimeter players over the final 13 games.

MOST THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE PER GAME
8.3 in 2017-18
8.3 in 2002-03
7.8 in 1994-95
7.6 in 2012-13
7.6 in 2001-02

• Carolina has scored 30.1 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That's the highest percentage in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as UNC's head coach.

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

• Carolina is attempting 34.5 percent of its field goals from three-point range. That is the highest percentage in the Roy Williams era. The previous high was 31.7 percent in 2005-06.
• This is the fifth time in the last 15 seasons UNC attempted at least 30 percent of its field goals from three-point distance. UNC attempted 39.9 percent from beyond the arc under head coach Matt Doherty in 2002-03.
• The opponents have made 10 or more three-pointers in 17 of 25 games, including nine of 12 in ACC play. UNC is 12-5 when the opponents make 10 or more threes. The opponents have made 129 threes in league play; no other team has allowed more than 112.
• NC State and Clemson became the first teams to ever make 15 three-pointers against UNC in consecutive games.
• Carolina's opponents are scoring 42.9 percent of their points on three-pointers, the highest percentage against any team in the country.
• In UNC's last three losses, Virginia Tech, NC State and Clemson scored 126 of 246 points from three-point range (51.2 percent).
• The opponents are making 10.4 three-pointers per game, the highest in a season against the Tar Heels.

OPPONENT THREE-POINTERS PER GAME
10.4 – 2017-18
9.6 – 1995-96
8.8 – 1994-95
8.0 – 2016-17
7.9 – 1996-97

• Carolina's opponents are shooting 38.1 percent from three-point range, the third-highest percentage in a season by the opponents (39.6 in 1982-83 with the line at 17 feet, 7 inches and 38.7 in 1992-92 at 19'9"; the current distance is 20'-9").
• Virginia Tech, NC State, Clemson and Pitt attempted 30 three-point shots in each game. That was the first time in UNC history the opponents attempted 30 or more three-pointers in four consecutive games. It happened three games in a row one time in 1997-98.
• Overall, the opponents have taken 30 or more threes in nine of 25 games. Carolina is 6-3 in games in which the opponents hoist 30 or more three-point shots.
• In the previous two seasons, the opponents attempted 30 or more threes six times in 80 games (five times in 2015-16 and once – by Tulane – in 2016-17).
• Three of Carolina's starters are shooting better than 80 percent from the free throw line this season – Joel Berry II (.891), Cameron Johnson (.886) and Theo Pinson (.810). This is the first time three starters shot 80 percent from the line since 2007-08, when Ty Lawson (.835), Wayne Ellington (.826) and Tyler Hansbrough (.806) accomplished that.
• Carolina's current five starters (started the last eight games) have combined for 336 assists and 180 turnovers. All five have a positive assist-error ratio, led by Cameron Johnson (32/15, 2.1), Kenny Williams (58/28, 2.1) and Theo Pinson (109/55, 2.0).

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Justin Jackson

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Kennedy Meeks

Theo Pinson

Kenny Williams

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