Tar Heels Will Face Top-Ranked Virginia For ACC Title

• Carolina is 25-9 overall, including 13-6 away from Chapel Hill this season. That includes a 7-5 record in road games and 6-1 at neutral sites.
• Carolina is 39-24 in New York City (6-10 in the original Madison Square Garden, 28-13 in the current Garden and 5-1 in Barclays Center).
• UNC's strength of schedule (NCAA and KenPom) is the most difficult in the nation. The Tar Heels entered their semifinal game vs. Duke No. 5 in the nation in the NCAA's RPI.
• Carolina has 13 wins all-time over the No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll. That is the most wins over No. 1 of any school in the country.
• Roy Williams has seven wins over No. 1, including four as UNC's head coach (over Connecticut on 1/17/04, Illinois on 4/4/05, Duke on 3/4/06 and Michigan State on 12/4/13).
• Carolina is 13-18 all-time in games against the No. 1 team in the AP poll. That includes 1-2 in the ACC Tournament (all three in championship games against Duke– 1992 loss, 1998 win and 1999 loss).
• Carolina is 0-1 against Virginia when the Cavaliers are ranked No. 1 (80-79 UVA win in overtime on 2/3/81 in Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill).

ACC Tournament
• Carolina is making its record 35th appearance in the championship game (Duke is second with 32; NC State is third with 17).
• Carolina and Duke have identical 100-45 records. No other school has won more than 71 wins.
• Carolina has won 18 championships, second most behind Duke (20).
• Carolina is 18-16 in the finals.
• Senior guard Joel Berry II has tied the UNC record for ACC Tournament wins played in with 10. Eric Montross and Derrick Phelps played in 10 wins from 1991-94. Berry played in three wins in 2015, three wins in 2016, one in 2017 and three thus far in 2018.
• Carolina is 3-0 as a No. 6 seed and 3-8 against the No. 1 seeds.
• Carolina's last win over a No. 1 seed was over Virginia in the 2015 semifinals in Greensboro.
• Roy Williams is 25-11 in the ACC Tournament. He is third in ACC Tourney wins behind Mike Krzyzewski (62) and Dean Smith (58).
• Williams is 3-4 in the finals as UNC's head coach.
• Williams is fifth in ACC Tournament winning percentage (.694). The top five winning percentages by coach in ACC Tournament history are either Carolina or Duke coaches (Bubas, Krzyzewski, Smith, UNC's Bill Guthridge and Williams).
• Carolina has won ACC Tournament championships in every city in which the event has been played except Brooklyn. UNC has won eight titles in Greensboro, five in Charlotte, and one each in Raleigh, N.C., Landover, Md., Atlanta, Tampa, Fla., and Washington, D.C.
• This is the second time in four seasons UNC has reached the final by winning three games (also 2015).

Carolina-Virginia Series
•Carolina leads, 131-55, including 16-9 under head coach Roy Williams.
• Carolina is 13-3 against the Cavaliers in the ACC Tournament, including 3-0 under Roy Williams (wins in 2006 quarterfinal, 2015 semifinal and 2016 championship game).
• This is the sixth time Carolina and Virginia have played in the championship game. The Cavaliers won the first time they played in the finals (1976) and the Tar Heels have won the last four (1977, 1982, 1994 and 2016).
• Carolina has won the last seven ACC Tournament matchups against Virginia. UNC's last loss to UVA in the ACC Tournament came in overtime in 1990.
• Virginia has won five of the last nine games in the series overall. Four of those five wins over the Tar Heels came in Charlottesville.
• Neither team has scored in the 80s in the last eight games. UNC is 3-5 in those games.
• The Tar Heels are 7-7 against Tony Bennett's Virginia teams and 1-0 against Bennett at Washington State (2008 NCAA Tournament).
• UNC has scored more than 75 points once in 14 games against Bennett's UVA teams and under 65 points nine times (3-6 in those eight).
• The Tar Heels are averaging 62.8 points against Virginia in the last 14 games. That includes a high of 93 on 2/16/13 and a low of 43 on 2/27/17.

2016 ACC Championship Game
UNC 61, Virginia 57
• Carolina scored 61 points, equaling its second-fewest in its 18 championship game victories. The only game UNC won with fewer points was the 47-45 win over Virginia in 1982 (pre shot clock).
• The Tar Heels held Virginia to a season-low 57 points and 36.5 percent shooting from the field.
• Carolina did not commit a turnover over the final 17:52.
• Carolina trailed 44-40 with 9:51 to play before embarking on a 15-2 run over the next eight minutes. During that stretch, UNC held the Cavaliers scoreless for 4:15 and went from trailing by four to leading, 48-44.
• ACC Tournament MVP Joel Berry II had a game-high 19 points in the championship vs. Virginia. The sophomore was 5 for 8 from the floor, including 3 for 3 from three-point range, and 6 for 6 from the free throw line.
• First-team All-America Brice Johnson had 12 points and added nine rebounds, five assists, a block and two steals.

Earlier This Year in Charlottesville
Virginia 61, UNC 49
• Carolina scored 49 points, shot 29.6 percent from the floor and committed a season-high 19 turnovers that led to 25 points for the Cavaliers, the most an opponent has scored in three seasons.
• The loss was the fifth in as many games in Charlottesville for the Tar Heels.
• It marked the first time in the ACC era that UNC scored less than 50 points in consecutive games against an ACC opponent. Last year, in the second-to-last game in the regular season, the eventual national champions scored just 43 points in a 53-43 loss to Virginia.
• Carolina had season lows in fastbreak points (0)and points in the paint (14). UNC's second-chance points (12) and points off turnovers (3) were season-lows to that point in the year.
• The 25 points off turnovers were the most by an opponent since Harvard scored 29 in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina made eight two-point field goals (fewest in the Roy Williams era), eight three-pointers and nine free throws.
• The Tar Heels trailed by only six points with 7:10 to play, but the Cavaliers out-scored UNC 7-1 (a Luke Maye free throw) the rest of the game.
• Joel Berry II (17 points) and Kenny Williams (11) scored in double figures for Carolina.

Game 34: UNC 74, Duke 69
• Carolina is 35-15 in the semifinals. Duke is second with 32 wins in the semifinals.
• Roy Williams is 8-4 in the semifinals as UNC's head coach.
• The win was Carolina's first over Duke in the ACC Tournament in seven games since the 1998 finals.
• This is the first year UNC beat Duke twice in the same season since 2009 and the first time UNC has beaten the Blue Devils twice when Duke was ranked in the top 10 since that same year (Duke was No. 9 on Feb. 8th and No. 5 in Brooklyn).
• Luke Maye led UNC with 17 points and 10 rebounds (six offensive), his 16th double-double of the season, fifth most in the Roy Williams era.
• It was the 11th time Maye led UNC in both scoring and rebounding (first time since at NC State on 2/10). UNC is 10-1 when Maye is the leading scorer and rebounder.
• Theo Pinson had eight points, which snapped his career-long eight-game double-digit scoring streak, but he had a game-high seven assists, the 22nd time this year he led UNC in assists.
• Carolina is 17-2 when Pinson has five or more assists (seven vs. Duke) and 21-4 when he has more assists than turnovers (was 7/2 vs. Duke).
• Pinson iced the win with a pair of free throws with three seconds to play.
• Joel Berry II scored 13 points, had six assists and three steals.
• Berry had one turnover in 37 minutes. UNC is 14-0 when Berry commits one or no turnovers.
• Carolina made a season-high 11 steals. Berry and Pinson each had three and Maye made two.
• Carolina out-scored the Blue Devils, 16-0, in bench points.
• Garrison Brooks scored 10 points. It was the fifth time this season he scored in double figures and the second in an ACC game (10 vs. Pitt).
• Brooks led UNC with eight first-half points. It was the first time Brooks led UNC in scoring in any half this season.
• Kenny Williams had a career-high six assists.
• Carolina had 24 assists on 28 field goals.
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures; UNC is now 5-0 when five players score in double figures and 25-5 when three or more accomplish that (only two scored in double figures in the loss at Virginia).
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures; four Blue Devils scored at all.
• Duke had a 40-39 edge on the boards. It was the second time this year UNC won when being out-rebounded (win at Notre Dame).
• UNC scored 21 points off 18 Duke turnovers. It was the Tar Heels' most points off turnovers since they had 24 at Florida State on Jan. 6th.
• Duke shot 26.1 percent from three (6 of 23), lowest by a Tar Heel opponent this year.
• Duke's six three-pointers marked the second game in a row the opponents made six.
• Carolina led 72-56 after a Maye field goal with 5:33 to play. The Tar Heels did not make another field goal. Duke closed to within 72-69, before Pinson's free throws with three seconds to play.

Miscellaneous
• Joel Berry II set a school record with the win over Duke in the ACC semifinals. It was Berry's 60th ACC win (50 regular season and 10 Tournament). The previous record was 59 set from 2014-17 by Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks.
• The win over Duke in Brooklyn was the 50th conference tournament win for head coach Roy Williams. He went 25-11 at Kansas in the Big 8 and Big 12 Tournaments and is 25-11 at Carolina in the ACC Tournament.
• The win over Duke was the 25th of the season for the Tar Heels. This is the 38th time Carolina has won 25 or more games. It is the 11th time in 15 seasons Williams has led UNC to at least 25 wins.
• The win over Duke was Carolina's 13th Quadrant 1 win of the season. That is the most Q1 wins in the nation.
• Joel Berry is 15th in UNC career scoring with 1,761 points, second in three-pointers made (258) and attempted (698), 10th in free throw percentage (.829) and 14th in assists (443).
• Berry joins Phil Ford and Marcus Paige as the only Tar Heels in the top 15 all-time in scoring and assists.
• Berry has 396 rebounds. With four more rebounds, he will join Walter Davis as the only Tar Heels with 1,700 points, 400 rebounds and 400 assists.
• Only two opponents have shot 50 percent from the floor this season – Miami (.548) in its win in Chapel Hill and NC State (.547) in Carolina's win in Raleigh.
• Syracuse, Miami and Duke have combined to shoot 36.4 percent from the floor in the first three ACC Tournament games (68 for 187).
• In the last seven games, UNC has allowed 7.0 threes in five wins and 10.0 in two losses.
• The Tar Heels have not allowed more than 69 points in the first three ACC Tournament games (59 by Syracuse, 65 by Miami and 69 by Duke). The last time UNC allowed less than 70 points in three consecutive ACC Tournament games was 2015 when UNC gave up 63 (Boston College), 60 (Louisville) and 67 (Virginia) through the semifinal round.
• Theo Pinson has raised his scoring average to 10.5 points, the fifth Tar Heel to average in double figures. This would be the first time since 2008-09 five Tar Heels averaged double figures (has happened in seven seasons prior to this year).
• Pinson is averaging 15.8 points in the last nine games. In those games, Pinson is 50 for 86 from the floor (.581), 7 for 12 from three-point range (.583) and 35 of 42 from the line (.833).
• Carolina leads the nation in rebounds per game (42.8) and rebound margin (10.2) and is in the top 10 nationally in assists (18.2) and offensive rebounds (14.2).
• Carolina is second nationally in offensive rebound percentage (38.8 percent). UNC has finished first, third and fifth in the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is seventh in the KenPom.com rankings (Virginia is first). The Tar Heels have the fifth-best offensive efficiency in KenPom and the 25th best defensive efficiency (Virginia is No. 28 on offense and No. 1 on defense).
• Carolina is 21-3 when Kenny Williams scores in double figures.
• Joel Berry II and Luke Maye lead Carolina in scoring at 17.1 points per game. No Tar Heel pair has averaged 17 points in a season since Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins in 1984.
• Cameron Johnson has scored in double figures in 18 of his 23 games as a Tar Heel, including the last five (14.4 per game in the last five).
• Carolina has shot 50 percent or better from the floor nine times in its last 17 halves.
• Carolina's opponents have a collective offensive and defensive efficiency that are both No. 1 in the country.
• Carolina's KenPom offensive efficiency of 121.8 is its second highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1).
• The Tar Heels have played 12 games against teams who are in the top 20 nationally in defensive efficiency. UNC is 8-4 in those games (wins over Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson, Duke twice, Louisville and Syracuse; and losses to Michigan State, Virginia, Clemson and Duke).
• Luke Maye and Joel Berry II made first-team All-ACC, the 23rd time in school history the Tar Heels have placed multiple players on the All-ACC first team.
• Maye is a finalist for the Wooden Award and one of five finalists for the Karl Malone Award as the top power forward in the country.
• Maye won the Skip Prosser Award as the top men's basketball scholar-athlete in the ACC. This is the fifth time in the last eight years a Tar Heel has won the Prosser Award (Tyler Zeller in 2011 and 2012 and Marcus Paige in 2015 and 2016).
• Berry is one of five finalists for the Bob Cousy Award as the nation's best point guard. Tar Heels Raymond Felton (2005), Ty Lawson (2009) and Kendall Marshall (2012) are previous winners

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Nate Britt

Garrison Brooks

Isaiah Hicks

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Kenny Williams

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