Tar Heels Host Miami For Senior Night

GAME 30, ACC GAME 17, HOME GAME 15
• The Tar Heels are 22-7 overall, 11-5 in the ACC. Carolina is 12-2 at home and 10-5 away from the Smith Center this season. That includes a 7-4 record in road games and 3-1 at neutral sites.
• Carolina has won six in a row with wins over Pitt, Duke, at NC State, Notre Dame, at Louisville at Syracuse. The six-game win streak is UNC's longest of the season and longest in one season since winning the six games in the 2017 NCAA Tournament. The last time UNC won more than six in a row in a season was a year ago, when the Tar Heels won seven ACC games in a row from Jan. 3-26.
• The Tar Heels had a six-day break since winning at Syracuse, 78-74, on Feb. 21st.
• Carolina has road wins at Stanford, Davidson, Tennessee, Notre Dame, NC State, Louisville and at Syracuse. Those teams have a combined home record of 85-25 (through 2/25).
• UNC (11-5) is in third place in the ACC, one-half game behind Duke (12-5) and one game ahead of Clemson (10-6) and NC State (10-6).
• Miami is 20-8 overall, 9-7 in the ACC. The Hurricanes are tied for seventh place in the ACC with Louisville, two games behind the Tar Heels.
• The Tar Heels will finish with a winning record in ACC regular-season play for the 58th time in 65 seasons (the 13th time in 15 seasons under head coach Roy Williams).
• This is the 42nd time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels have won at least 10 ACC regular-season games.
• UNC has won at least 11 ACC regular-season games for the 34th time (13th time in 15 seasons under Roy Williams, including eight years in a row).

FINAL GAME AT SMITH CENTER
• This is UNC's final game this season at the Dean E. Smith Center. The Tar Heels are 12-2 at home this year.
• Seniors Joel Berry II, Kane Ma, Theo Pinson and Aaron Rohlman are playing in the Smith Center for the final time.
• Carolina has a 52-8 record in the Smith Center in Berry and Pinson's four years (five of those losses came in their freshman season in 2014-15).

SCHEDULE NOTES
• Carolina is No. 5 in the NCAA's RPI (as of 2/26). UNC's Carolina's opponents have an average RPI of 80, which is the fourth highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is the second-most difficult in the nation.
• The top five strength of schedules are: 1- Vanderbilt, 2- North Carolina, 3- Kansas, 4- Kentucky and 5- Ole Miss.
• Carolina has 10 wins over current Quadrant I opponents, the second most in the country behind Kansas (11). Auburn and Virginia are tied for third with eight.
• The Tar Heels' non-conference strength of schedule is the ninth-most difficult. It is the highest-rated non-conference schedule in the ACC.

RANKINGS
• Carolina is ranked No. 9 in the Associated Press and coaches polls
• UNC moved up one spot from last week and up 12 spots in the AP poll in the last three weeks.
• This is the 78th consecutive week and the NCAA-record 894th time overall the Tar Heels are ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 668th time the Tar Heels are ranked in the top 10.
• Carolina has five wins this season over teams in this week's AP poll – No. 5 Duke, No. 13 Ohio State, No. 15 Michigan, No. 16 Tennessee and No. 18 Clemson. UNC's losses include the No. 1 and 2 teams – Virginia and Michigan State – and Clemson.
• Carolina is seventh in KenPom's overall rankings – including fifth in offensive efficiency and 40th in defensive efficiency. Miami is 41st overall in KenPom – 59th in offense and 35th in defense.
• Carolina's first 29 opponents average the seventh-best offensive efficiency and the No.1 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.
• Carolina's KenPom offensive efficiency of 122.4 is its second highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1).
• The Tar Heels have played 10 games against teams who are in the top 20 nationally in defensive efficiency. UNC is 7-3 in those games (wins over Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson, Duke, Louisville; and Syracuse; and losses to Virginia, Michigan State and Clemson).

AWARD LISTS
• Joel Berry II is one of 10 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award as the nation's top point guard. UNC is the only school with three Cousy Award winners – Raymond Felton (2005), Ty Lawson (2009) and Kendall Marshall (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.
• Berry and Maye are among 30 players on the Naismith Trophy late-season list (announced 2/14). Berry, Maye, Bagley and Virginia's Kyle Guy represent the ACC. UNC is one of four schools (with Arizona, Purdue and Villanova) with two players on the Naismith list.
• Maye and Berry rank fourth and fifth, respectively, in scoring in the ACC. This is the first time UNC has two of the top five scorers in the ACC since 2012 when Harrison Barnes (17.1 ppg) was third and ACC Player of the Year Tyler Zeller (16.3) was fifth.
• Maye was named to CoSIDA's Academic All-District team (for district 3, which includes North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia). He is the only ACC player to earn Academic All-District honors this season.

TWENTY WINS AGAIN
• Carolina has won at least 20 games for the 60th time in school history and the 14th time in 15 seasons under Roy Williams.
• Williams' teams have won 20 or more games in 28 of his 30 seasons as a head coach and 19 or more in all 30.
• This is the 14th consecutive season UNC has won at least 20 games.

UNC-MIAMI SERIES
• Carolina leads the series against Miami, 21-7, including a 14-6 record since the Hurricanes joined the ACC prior to the 2004-05 season.
• The Tar Heels have won three of the last four games, including a 78-53 win in the 2017 ACC Tournament quarterfinals in Brooklyn.
• Miami beat Carolina, 77-62, in Coral Gables in the only regular-season meeting a year ago.
• Carolina is 10-3 against Miami in Chapel Hill (all 13 games in the Smith Center).
• Roy Williams is 17-7 against Miami. He was 2-1 as the head coach at Kansas and is 15-6 as Carolina's head coach.

GAME 29: UNC 78, SYRACUSE 74
• Theo Pinson scored a career-high 23 points. It was his second career 20-point game (22 at home vs. NC State on 1/27/18).
• Pinson was 2 for 2 from three-point range, the first time this year he made multiple threes in a game. He set his career scoring high on a three-pointer with 4:50 to play that gave UNC a 74-66 lead.
• It was the second time in the last two seasons Pinson made two three-pointers in a game. The other time was on 2/22/17 against Louisville.
• Pinson was 9 for 12 from the floor. His percentage of .750 was the highest by a Tar Heel in a game this season (min. 10 attempts).
• Pinson scored in double figures for the fourth game in a row, the longest streak in his career.
• Joel Berry II broke a 74-all tie with a steal and coast-to-coast layup. It was the third time this year Berry scored the game-winning points in an ACC game (Wake Forest and at Notre Dame).
• Kenny Williams led UNC with a career-high tying eight rebounds. It was the first time in his career Williams led UNC in rebounds.
• Sterling Manley scored 12 points, his ACC season high. It was his fourth game in double figures this year and second time in an ACC game (10 vs. Pitt).
• Pinson had a game-high seven assists. It was the 19th time this season and 40th in his career he led UNC in assists.
• Carolina is 15-1 when Pinson has five or more assists, 19-3 when he has more assists than turnovers and 10-2 when he scores in double figures.
• Berry had four assists and one turnover. UNC is 12-0 when he has one or no turnovers.
• All seven Tar Heels who had assists finished the game with more assists than turnovers.
• Carolina had 25 assists on 29 field goals. UNC assisted on 86.2 percent of its field goals, its second-highest percentage this year (88.5 percent in home win over Clemson).
• It was the first time Berry, Pinson and Manley were Carolina's only players to score in double figures.
• Syracuse made 16 of 17 from the free throw line. The Orange's percentage (.941) was the highest by an opponent this season.

LUUUUKE
• Luke Maye leads UNC with 18.0 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.
• Maye is the only player in the league to win ACC Player of the Week honors three times this season.
• Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III are the only players in the top five in the ACC in scoring (4th) and rebounding (2nd) and the top 10 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage (7th).
• 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).
• 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.
• Maye is sixth in KenPom's national player of the year statistical rankings.
• Maye also averages 2.5 assists. Since 1968, the only Tar Heels to average more points and assists were Charles Scott (twice), Phil Ford, Jerry Stackhouse and Joseph Forte.
• Maye has led UNC in both scoring and rebounding 10 times this season, including 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 was at Virginia Tech).
• Maye leads UNC in blocked shots with 35. At 6-8, Maye would the shortest Tar Heel to lead the team in blocks since Danny Green (6-5) in 2006.
• Luke Maye has 14 double-doubles this year (and 15 in his career, including against Butler in the 2017 NCAA Sweet 16). He is tied for the fifth-most double-doubles in a season in the Roy Williams era.

Double-Doubles in a Season
(under Roy Williams)
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 Luke Maye, 2017-18
14 by Tyler Zeller, 2011-12

MULTIPLE 30-Point/15-Rebound Game
(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

BERRY CONTINUES TO CLIMB IN RECORDS
• Senior point guard Joel Berry II is 21st in career scoring at UNC with 1,692 points. Berry, the Most Outstanding Player in the 2017 NCAA Final Four, is two points behind 2009 Final Four MOP Wayne Ellington, who is 20th with 1,694 points.
• Berry is second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 247. Berry has made 74 threes in 27 games this year, the second-most per game in school history.

Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.64 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (74 in 28 games)
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

• Berry has attempted 663 three-pointers, second most by a Tar Heel (Paige 798).
• Berry leads the ACC in free throw shooting this year at 89.8 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.
• Berry is the only Tar Heel to have two of the eighth-highest free throw percentages in UNC history.

Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98 (133 of 146)
.898 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (86 of 96)
.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 has played in 57 ACC wins (50 regular season and seven ACC Tournament). That ties Quentin Thomas for the seventh most in UNC history.

Most ACC Regular-Season & Tournament Wins
59 Nate Britt
59 Isaiah Hicks
58 Brice Johnson
58 Marcus Paige
58 Danny Green
58 Tyler Hansbrough
57 Joel Berry II
57 Quentin Thomas

200 ACC WINS FOR ROY
• Carolina's win over Notre Dame on 2/12 was the 200th ACC win for head coach Roy Williams (regular season and Tournament). He is just the fourth coach to win 200 ACC games and the third with Tar Heel ties in the top five.

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

NOTABLE...
• Luke Maye (18.0) and Joel Berry II (17.7) 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.
• The Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (43.1) and rebound margin (11.4), are fifth in assists (18.2) and sixth in offensive rebounds (14.1).
• The 2017 Tar Heels became the third team to lead the nation in rebound margin and win the national title (with Michigan State 2000 and UConn 2004).

REBOUNDS PER GAME
43.1 – North Carolina
42.0 – Duke
42.0 – Bethune-Cookman
41.5 – UC Irvine
41.1 – Michigan State

REBOUND MARGIN
11.4 – North Carolina
10.7 – Michigan State
10.2 – Wichita State
9.4 – Duke
9.0 – Gonzaga

Highest Rebound Margin in UNC History
2016-17 12.3
2017-18 11.4
2007-08 11.0
1956-57 10.8
2011-12 10.4

ASSISTS PER GAME
19.9 – Michigan State
19.4 – TCU
18.9 – Wichita State
18.3 – Iowa
18.2 – North Carolina

• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin four previous times – three of those four seasons have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17 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 second in the country in rebounding its own missed shots. The Tar Heels grab 38.9 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
.399 – Duke
.389 – North Carolina
.382 – Cincinnati
.370 – West Virginia
.361 – Kentucky

• Carolina is 36th in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels are rebounding 74.2 percent of the opponents' missed field goals and free throws.
• UNC is 18-2 when Kenny Williams scores in double figures and 7-2 when he makes three or more three-pointers.
• Theo Pinson has 36 assists in the last six games (6.0 per game). UNC is 15-1 this season when he has five or more.
• Pinson has 114 assists and 47 turnovers (2.4) in UNC's 22 wins and 19 assists/19 turnovers in the seven losses.
• UNC is 19-3 when Pinson has more assists than turnovers (including at Clemson when he played less than two minutes) and 2-4 when he has more turnovers.
• 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 29.8 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That is the highest percentage in Roy Williams' 15 seasons as UNC's head coach.

SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs (last 15 seasons)
29.8 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 33.9 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 18 of 29 games, including 10 of 16 in ACC play. UNC is 13-5 when the opponents make 10 or more threes.
• Carolina's opponents are scoring 41.9 percent of their points on three-pointers, the third-highest percentage against any team in the country (Liberty and Charleston Southern allow a greater percentage of points from three-point distance).
• The opponents are making 10.0 three-pointers per game, the highest in a season against the Tar Heels.

OPPONENTS' THREE-POINTERS PER GAME
10.0 – 2017-18
9.6 – 1995-96
8.8 – 1994-95
8.0 – 2016-17
7.9 – 1996-97

• Carolina's opponents are shooting 38.3 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; 38.7 in 1992-92 at 19'9"; and 38.3 with the current distance at 20'9").
• Three of Carolina's starters are shooting better than 80 percent from the free throw line this season – Cameron Johnson (.900), Joel Berry II (.898) and Theo Pinson (.816).
• 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 is 19-1 this year when it leads at the half and 3-6 when trailing at the break (two of the three wins came on 2/8 vs. Duke and 2/10 at NC State).
• Carolina is 11-1 when the Tar Heels shoot 50 percent or better from the floor and 10-1 when holding the opponents under 40 percent.
• Carolina has scored at least 1.0 points per possession in 10 of the last 13 halves, beginning with the second half of the loss at Clemson on 1/30.

LAST SIX GAMES
• In the last six games, all UNC wins, the Tar Heels are shooting 48.7 percent from the fooor, 38.0 percent from three and 77.3 percent from the free throw line.
• The opponents are shooting 44.8 from the floor, 37.8 from three and 65.7 from the free throw line.
• Carolina is averaging 20.5 assists (which would lead the nation if it was for the full season) and 9.5 turnovers per game.
• Carolina has made 9.0 three-pointers per game and allowed 8.5.
• Five Tar Heels are averaging double figures – Joel Berry II (18.5), Luke Maye (18.3), Cameron Johnson (12.7), Kenny Williams (12.7) and Theo Pinson (12.5). Sterling Manley is the leading scorer off the bench at 7.2 ppg.
• Carolina has averaged 88.0 points and allowed 74.7.

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Nate Britt

Isaiah Hicks

Justin Jackson

Cameron Johnson

Kane Ma

Sterling Manley

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Aaron Rohlman

Kenny Williams

Scoreboard Slider

University of North Carolina Athletics