Notre Dame Visits For Big Monday

• Carolina plays host to Notre Dame on Monday, Feb. 12th, in its second-to-last home game, and third game in five days.
• The Tar Heels are 19-7 overall, 8-5 in the ACC and 11-2 at the Dean E. Smith Center this season.
• The Irish are 15-10, 5-7 in the ACC.
• Carolina beat the Irish, 69-68, at Notre Dame on Jan. 13th.
• Notre Dame is one of four teams in the ACC the Tar Heels play twice this season. The Tar Heels have split with Clemson and NC State and won the first game against Duke.
• 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 mid-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. It's the first time any school was scheduled to do that since Georgia Tech and Virginia in 1991.
• 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. 9 Duke twice, No. 25 Miami, at No. 38 Syracuse and at No. 41 Louisville).
• When the AP rankings are released on 2/12, Carolina will likely be ranked in the AP poll for the 76th consecutive week and the 892nd time overall.
• Carolina is 10th in KenPom's overall rankings – including 11th in offensive efficiency and 36th in defensive efficiency. Notre Dame is 37th overall in KenPom – 33rd in offense and 60th in defense.
• Carolina's KenPom offensive efficiency of 120.0 is its third highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1) and 2016-17 (120.7).
• Carolina is No. 6 in the NCAA's RPI (as of 2/7). UNC's Carolina's opponents have an average RPI of 82, which is the fourth highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is ranked the third-most difficult in the nation. The Tar Heels' non-conference strength of schedule is the 10th best.
• Carolina's first 26 opponents average the seventh-best offensive efficiency and the third-best defensive efficiency in the nation. Carolina, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt are the only teams whose opponents rank in the top 10 in the country in efficiency on both ends of the court.

Luke Maye
• 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.
• Luke Maye is averaging 18.7 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. Only four Tar Heels (Billy Cunningham three times, Lennie Rosenbluth twice, Doug Moe and Antawn Jamison) had higher scoring and rebounding averages in a season than Maye.
• Maye is the first Tar Heel to have two 30-point/15-rebound games in the same season since Mitch Kupchak in 1976. Maye, Kupchak, Lennie Rosenbluth and Billy Cunningham are the only players to accomplish that multiple times in the same season.

30-Point/15-Rebound Games in a Season
Billy Cunningham – 6 times in 1963-64
Billy Cunningham – 5 times in 1964-65
Luke Maye – 2 times in 2017-18
Mitch Kupchak – 2 times in 1975-76
Billy Cunningham – 2 times in 1962-63
Lennie Rosenbluth – 2 times in 1955-56
Lennie Rosenbluth – 2 times in 1954-55
Pete Brennan – once in 1957-58
Lennie Rosenbluth – once in 1956-57
Antawn Jamison – once in 1997-98
Antawn Jamison – once in 1996-97

• Maye also averages 2.4 assists. Since 1968, the only players to average more points and assists were Charlie Scott twice, Phil Ford, Jerry Stackhouse and Joseph Forte.
• Maye made 12 field goals in the second half of Carolina's win at NC State, something that UNC players had done in a GAME 15
previous times in the Roy Williams era (including two previous times by Maye).

12 Field Goals or More in a Game
(last 15 years)
15 – Luke Maye vs. NC State, 2/10/18 (12 in 2nd half)
14 – Brice Johnson at Florida State, 1/4/16
13 – Luke Maye vs. Boston College, 1/9/18
13 – Brice Johnson vs. Duke, 2/17/16
13 – Tyler Hansbrough vs. Notre Dame, 11/26/08
13 – Tyler Hansbrough vs. Georgia Tech, 2/15/06
13 – Sean May vs. Wisconsin, 3/27/05
13 – Sean May vs. Florida State, 3/3/05
12 – Luke Maye vs. NC State, 1/27/18
12 – John Henson vs. Long Beach State, 12/10/11
12 – Harrison Barnes vs. Clemson, 3/12/11
12 – Tyler Hansbrough vs. NC State, 1/31/09
12 – Wayne Ellington vs. Maryland, 2/3/09
12 – Tyler Hansbrough vs. Louisville, 3/29/08
12 – Tyler Hansbrough vs. Duke, 2/6/08
12 – Tyler Hansbrough vs. Penn, 12/4/07

• Maye is seventh in KenPom's national player of the year statistical rankings.
• 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.
• Berry passed four former Tar Heels on the career scoring list with his 16 points at NC State to move into 22nd place with 1,630 points. Berry passed Eric Montross, Justin Jackson, Jawad Williams and Hubert Davis, and is six points behind Kenny Smith, who is 21st with 1,636.
• Roy Williams has won 199 ACC games (regular season and Tournament). A win over Notre Dame would make him the fourth to win 200 ACC games.

Most Wins by a Head Coach,
ACC Regular-Season & ACC Tournament Games
468 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
422 Dean Smith North Carolina
210 Gary Williams Maryland
199 Roy Williams North Carolina
160 Frank McGuire UNC, South Carolina

• Carolina needs one win to reach 20 wins for the season. It would be the 60th 20-win season in UNC history and the 14th in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as Carolina's head coach.
• It would the 28th 20-win season in Williams' 30 years as a head coach. Kansas won 19 in his first year (1988-89) and the Tar Heels won 19 in his first year (2003-04) at Carolina.
• Williams has won 418 games at Kansas and 417 as Carolina's head coach.

UNC-NOTRE DAME SERIES
• Carolina leads the series, 22-7. UNC has won the last four games against Notre Dame. The Tar Heels beat the Irish eight in a row from 1958-72.
• UNC is 6-3 against Notre Dame since the Irish joined the ACC, including 1-1 in the ACC Tournament (2015 championship game and 2016 semifinal) and 1-0 in the NCAA Tournament (2016 East Regional final).
• The Tar Heels are 4-1 at home against the Irish. That includes a 3-1 record in Chapel Hill (all at the Smith Center) and 1-0 in Greensboro (the 2017 game was postponed a day and moved to Greensboro due to a water crisis in Chapel Hill, but the game is officially designated a UNC home game).
• Roy Williams is 7-3 against Notre Dame, all as UNC's head coach.

GAME 26: UNC 96, NC STATE 89
• Carolina shot 78.1 percent in the second half, its highest percentage in a half in the Roy Williams era and the highest since shooting 78.9 percent on Jan. 8, 2000 (also in the second half against NC State).
• Carolina scored 61 second-half points, most this season and most since it scored 65 in the second half at Florida State on 1/4/2016.
• Carolina has scored 97 and 96 points in its last two games against NC State in Raleigh.
• Carolina made a season-high 40 field goals (previous was 39 against Portland and Boston College).
• Carolina shot 63.0 and 78.1 in the second half in two games against NC State this season.
• Carolina scored 61 points on 44 second-half possessions. UNC's points per possession of 1.39 matched the highest in a half this season (also 1.39 in the second half in the loss at Clemson when UNC scored 50 points on 36 possessions).
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures. UNC is 19-3 when at least three and 3-0 when at least five players score in double figures.
• Six NC State players scored in double figures, the first time an opponent did that since Pitt beat the Tar Heels, 89-76, on 2/14/15.
• NC State went on a 19-0 run over a 6:45 span in the first half. UNC was leading 28-18 before the Pack scored the next 19 points to lead 37-28 with 3:45 to play in the half. UNC countered with a 7-0 run to close the half trailing by two points.
• It was the first time an opponent scored at least 15 consecutive points since the 2015 ACC Tournament championship when Notre Dame went on a 15-0 run late in the game.
• Carolina was 0 for 13 from the floor and committed four turnovers in State's 19-0 run.
• Carolina shot 56.3 percent from the floor and is 10-1 this year when it shoots 50 percent or better.
• Carolina out-rebounded the Wolfpack 41-24 and had a 15-7 edge in offensive rebounds.
• Carolina out-scored the Pack 22-7 on second-chance points. State scored 22 second-chance points in its win on 1/27.
• Carolina scored 21 fastbreak points, most since the Tar Heels had 21 against Western Carolina on 12/6/17.
• Carolina scored 60 points in the paint, including 40 of the 61 points in the second half. In Chapel Hill, UNC scored 58 points in the paint against State. Those are the only two times UNC has scored 50 or more since the Tulane game on 12/3/17.
• The 60 and 58 points in the paint against NC State are Carolina's two highest this season.
• This was the first time UNC played Duke and NC State two days apart in the regular season since 1995.
• Luke Maye scored a career-high 33 points and grabbed 17 rebounds. It was his third 30-point game, third 30/10 game, 12th game with at least 20 points, 13th double-double and 10th time he has led UNC in both scoring and rebounding this season.
• It was the fourth time this year Maye has established a career scoring high (26 vs. UNI, 28 vs. Arkansas, 32 vs. Boston College and 33 at NC State).
• Maye made 15 field goals (in 22 attempts). He is the first Tar Heel to make 15 field goals in a game in the Roy Williams era (previous was 14 by Brice Johnson at Florida State on 1/4/2016).
• Maye became the fourth Tar Heel (with Billy Cunningham, Lennie Rosenbluth and Mitch Kupchak) to have multiple 30/15 games in the same season. Maye had 32 and 18 against Boston College on 1/9.
• Maye scored 27 points in the second half, the most since Brice Johnson had 28 in the second half at FSU on 1/4/2016.
• This was the fifth time this season and sixth time in his career Maye had at least 15 rebounds.
• Kenny Williams and Theo Pinson combined for zero points in the first half and 22 (11 apiece) in the second.
• Williams made two second-half threes, including one with 1:13 to play that gave UNC an 88-83 lead.
• Williams is 11 for 20 from three-point range in the last three games (wins over Pitt, Duke and NC State).
• Williams (11) scored in double figures for the third game in a row and 18th time this year (UNC is 16-2 when he does).
• Carolina is 14-1 when Joel Berry II, Luke Maye and Kenny Williams all score in double figures.
• Pinson had a team-high seven assists. It was the second time in three games and sixth time this year he had at least seven assists. It was the 16th time this year and 37th time in his career he led UNC in assists.
• UNC is now 12-1 this year when Pinson has five or more assists.
• Maye (6) and Pinson (tied, 5) both had career highs in turnovers, 11 of UNC's 19 for the game.
• The 19 turnovers tied UNC's season high (also in the loss at Virginia).
• NC State shot 60 percent from the floor in the second half and 54.7 for the game. That was the highest percentage by an opponent in a game this season.
• NC State attempted 13 three-pointers, three fewer than any other opponent in the first 26 games.
• Carolina has won five in a row over NC State in PNC Arena.

LAST TIME THEY MET
UNC 69, NOTRE DAME 68 (JAN. 13)
• Joel Berry II made two free throws with 7.1 seconds to play and UNC withstood two last-second shot attempts by Notre Dame to beat the Irish, 69-68.
• Notre Dame went ahead 66-60 with 5:58 to play after back-to-back three-pointers by Nikola Djogo, but the Tar Heels held the Irish without another field goal the rest of the game.
• UNC out-scored Notre Dame, 9-2, over the final 5:57.
• Carolina held Notre Dame to just 34.8 percent shooting from the floor.
• Notre Dame grabbed 20 offensive boards, which led to eight more possessions than UNC.
• Carolina tied its then-season-low for turnovers with seven.
• Luke Maye led UNC with 18 points, 11 rebounds, three assists, three steals (tied his career high) and no turnovers.
• Theo Pinson had 13 points, seven rebounds, four assists and no turnovers. It was his second game in a row with no turnovers.

LAST SIX GAMES
• Carolina has won its last three games (against Pitt, Duke and NC State), which followed a three-game losing streak (against Virginia Tech, NC State and Clemson). In those six games –

Carolina ...
• shot 48.6 percent from the floor in the wins and 47.2 in the losses
• shot 36.4 from 3FG in the wins and 32.4 in the losses
• had a rebound margin of plus 42 (14.0 per game) in the wins and plus 17 (5.7 per game) in the losses
• had 22 more offensive rebounds in the wins (7.3) and was even in the losses
• committed 32 turnovers in the wins (19 in one game) and 38 in the losses
• had a 55-22 advantage in second-chance points in the wins and was out-scored 53-29 in the losses
• had a 43-22 advantage in points off turnovers in the wins and was out-scored 53-29 in the losses
• had a 42-22 advantage in fastbreak points in the wins and a 16-15 edge in the losses

The opponents...
• shot 38.2 percent from three-point range in UNC's wins and 46.7 percent in the losses
• scored 33.6 percent of their points from three-point range in UNC's wins and 49.0 percent from three in the three wins over UNC

NOTABLE...
• Joel Berry II moved into 22nd place in UNC career scoring with his 16 points in the win at NC State. Berry has scored 1,630 points, moving ahead of Eric Montross, Jawad Williams, Justin Jackson and Hubert Davis on Saturday, and stands seven points from passing Kenny Smith for 21st place.
• Berry is second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 236. Berry has made 62 threes in 24 games this year, the fourth most per game (2.58) ever by a Tar Heel.
• Berry has attempted 635 three-pointers, second most by a Tar Heel (Paige 798).
• Berry went 1 for 1 from the line in Raleigh. He leads the ACC in free throw shooting this year at 89.2 percent, second highest in UNC history. Shammond Williams set the record at 91.1 percent in 1997-98, which was also the last time a Tar Heel led the ACC in free throw percentage.

Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98
.892 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (83 of 93)
.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

• Luke Maye (18.7) 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 (43.3) and rebound margin (11.7).

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

REBOUND MARGIN
11.7 – North Carolina
10.8 – Wichita State
10.1 – Michigan State
9.5 – Duke
9.3 – 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 38.7 percent of their own missed shots.
• Carolina has finished first, third and fifth in the country in offensive rebounding percentage in the previous three seasons.

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING PERCENTAGE
.406 – Duke
.390 – Cincinnati
.383 – North Carolina
.369 – West Virginia
.363 – Loyola Marymount

• Carolina is 28th in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels are rebounding 75.6 percent of the opponents' missed field goals and free throws.
• Luke Maye has led UNC in both scoring and rebounding 10 times this season, including Saturday at NC State when he scored a career high 33 points and had 17 rebounds. UNC is 9-1 when Maye leads in both categories (the lone loss at Virginia Tech).
• Maye leads UNC in blocked shots with 32. 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.
• Luke Maye has 13 double-doubles this year (and 14 in his career, including against Butler in the 2017 NCAA Sweet 16). He is tied for the sixth-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 Luke Maye, 2017-18
13 by Kennedy Meeks, 2016-17
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 8.2 three-pointers per game, which is 0.1 behind 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 2002-03
8.2 in 2017-18
7.8 in 1994-95
7.6 in 2012-13
7.6 in 2001-02

• Carolina has scored 29.6 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)
29.6 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 34.0 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 26 games, including nine of 13 in ACC play (neither Duke nor NC State made 10 threes in the last two games). UNC is 12-5 when the opponents make 10 or more threes. The opponents have made 136 threes in league play; no other team has allowed that many.
• Carolina's opponents are scoring 41.7 percent of their points on three-pointers, the third-highest percentage against any team in the country (Charleston Southern and Liberty allow a greater percentage of points from three-point distance).
• In UNC's last three losses, Virginia Tech, NC State and Clemson scored 126 of 257 points from three-point range (49.0 percent).
• The opponents are making 10.2 three-pointers per game, the highest in a season against the Tar Heels.

OPPONENTS THREE-POINTERS PER GAME
10.2 – 2017-18
9.6 – 1995-96
8.8 – 1994-95
8.0 – 2016-17
7.9 – 1996-97

• Carolina's opponents are shooting 38.4 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 26 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 – Cameron Johnson (.895), Joel Berry II (.892) and Theo Pinson (.807). This is the first time three UNC starters are shooting 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 350 assists and 196 turnovers. All five have a positive assist-error ratio, led by Cameron Johnson (33/15, 2.2), Kenny Williams (61/30, 2.0) and Theo Pinson (116/60, 1.9).

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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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