Tar Heels To Face Lipscomb In NCAA 1st Round

• The defending national champion Tar Heels are the No. 2 seed in the West Region and play No. 15 Lipscomb, champion of the Atlantic Sun Conference, on Friday, March 16th, in Charlotte, N.C.
• Gametime is approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the game between No. 7 seed Texas A&M and No. 10 Providence, which tips at 12:15 p.m.
• Carolina's first round game will be televised on CBS.
• Carolina is 25-10. That includes 11-7 in the ACC regular season and 3-1 in the ACC Tournament.
• Carolina is 13-7 away from Chapel Hill – 7-5 on the road and 6-2 at neutral sites.
• Carolina went 13-9 against teams in the 2018 NCAA Tournament field. The Tar Heels went 2-0
against Syracuse; 2-1 vs. Duke, 1-0 vs. Bucknell, Arkansas, Michigan, Davidson, Tennessee and Ohio State; 1-1 vs. Clemson, NC State and Miami; 0-1
vs. Michigan State, Florida State and Virginia Tech; and 0-2 vs. Virginia.
• UNC's strength of schedule (NCAA and KenPom) was the most difficult in the nation.

CAROLINA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• The 2018 NCAA Tournament is Carolina's 49th appearance, second most all-time (57 Kentucky).
• Carolina has won the NCAA Tournament championship six times (third most behind UCLA with 11 and Kentucky with eight). UNC has won the title in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017.
• The Tar Heels have played in the championship game 11 times (6-5), finishing as runners-up in 1946, 1968, 1977, 1981 and 2016.
• Carolina is 123-45 in the NCAA Tournament. UNC is second in wins, one behind Kentucky (124).
• Carolina has played in a record 20 Final Fours. The Tar Heels are attempting to reach a third straight Final Four for the second time in school history (1967, 1968, 1969 under Dean Smith).
• Carolina is the only school to reach the Final Four in each of the last eight decades (1940s to 2010s).
• Carolina played in San Antonio, site of this year's Final Four, in 1998 and 2008. The Tar Heels also played in San Antonio in the NCAA Tournament in 2014.
• Carolina has the second-highest winning percentage in NCAA Tournament history. The Tar Heels have won 73.2 percent of their games.
• Carolina's 42 NCAA Tournament wins in the last 14 years are nine more than any other school.
• Carolina has won 11 of its last 12 NCAA Tournament games over the last two seasons, losing to Villanova in the 2016 national championship game and beating Gonzaga for the title in 2017.
• Last year, Carolina became one of three schools to win the NCAA title one year after losing in the national championship game and the only school to accomplish that twice (UNC in 1982, Duke in 1991 and Kentucky in 1998).
• Carolina is attempting to become the first team to repeat as champion since Florida in 2006-07 and the first to play in three consecutive national title games since Kentucky in 1996-97-98.
• This is Carolina's ninth time as a No. 2 seed (1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2011 and 2018). The Tar Heels are 22-8 as a No. 2 seed, previously advancing to the Final Four as a second seed in 1981 and 1995.
• UNC is 6-0 vs. No. 15 seeds. The Tar Heels last played a No. 15 in 2011 in Charlotte when they beat Long Island University.
• Since the field expanded to at least 64 teams in 1985, the Tar Heels are 29-1 in first round games (only loss was in 1999 as a No. 3 seed to No. 14 Weber State).
• This is the seventh time UNC is playing in the West Region (1978, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1999, 2015 and 2018).
• Joel Berry II and Theo Pinson have played in 13 NCAA Tournament wins and 15 NCAA Tournament games. UNC records are 19 games and 16 wins by Pat Sullivan (1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995).
• Berry was the Most Outstanding Player of the 2017 Final Four. He is one of five Tar Heels to win Most Outstanding Player honors at a Final Four (James Worthy in 1982, Donald Williams in 1993, Sean May in 2005 and Wayne Ellington in 2009). He is the second Tar Heel (with Williams in 1994 and 1995) to play in additional NCAA Tournament games after winning MOP honors.
• Luke Maye was the Most Outstanding Player of the 2017 NCAA South Regional after UNC beat Butler in the Sweet 16 and Kentucky in the Elite Eight to advance to the Final Four. Maye was UNC's first non-starter to win regional MOP honors.

ROY WILLIAMS IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• Won NCAA championships at UNC in 2005, 2009 and 2017 and led KU and Carolina to runnerup finishes in 1991, 2003 and 2016.
• Won the NCAA championship for the third time by beating No. 1 seed Gonzaga, 71-65.
• Led Carolina to the national title game for the second straight year.
• Became the sixth coach to win three or more NCAA titles with John Wooden (10), Mike Krzyzewski (5), Jim Calhoun (3), Bob Knight (3) and Adolph Rupp (3).
• Became the first coach to win three NCAA titles at his alma mater.
• Became the third coach in history to take teams to six national championship games with John Wooden (10) and Mike Krzyzewski (9).
• Led Carolina to the Final Four for the ninth time in his head coaching career (five at Carolina, four at Kansas).
• Second all-time in NCAA Tournament victories with 76 and games with 100.
• Fourth all-time in Final Fours with nine (four at Kansas and five at UNC) behind only John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith.
• Led Carolina and Kansas to 12 No. 1 NCAA Tournament seeds, second-most all-time.
• Won 11 more NCAA Tournament games (51) in the last 16 years than any coach in the country.
• Is 27-0 in NCAA Tournament first round games, the best record in opening round play in NCAA Tournament history. Adolph Rupp won at least a game in his first 13 NCAA appearances, the second-best figure behind Williams.
• Williams is 18-9 in the second round, including 9-4 at Carolina.
• Reached the Sweet 16 in 18 of 27 NCAA Tournament appearances – nine at Carolina (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017) and nine at Kansas (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2003).
• Williams is 13-5 in the Sweet 16, including 8-1 at Carolina.
• Reached the Elite 8 13 times, including eight times in the previous 14 years at Carolina. Is 9-4 in regional finals – 5-3 at UNC and 4-1 at Kansas.
• This is the sixth time Williams' teams have been seeded No. 2 (in 1990, 1993, 1996 and 2003 at Kansas and 2011 and 2018 at Carolina). KU advanced to the Final Four as a two in 1993 and 2003. Carolina advanced to the East Regional final in 2011.

2017 NCAA CHAMPIONS
• Carolina won its sixth NCAA championship (third in the last 13 years) with a 71-65 win over Gonzaga on April 3, 2017, in the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
• Carolina won the national championship with a 103-64 win over No. 16 seed Texas Southern, a 72-65 win over No. 8 seed Arkansas, a 92-80 win over No. 4 seed Butler, a 75-73 win over No. 2 seed Kentucky, a 77-76 win over No. 3 seed Oregon and a 71-65 win over No. 1 seed Gonzaga.
• Junior point guard Joel Berry II was the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. Berry scored a game-high 22 points and had six assists, two steals and a blocked shot in the national championship game vs. Gonzaga and had 11 points and two assists vs. Oregon in the semifinal.
• Berry became the first player since Hall of Famer Bill Walton in 1972 and 1973 to score 20 or more points in consecutive national championship games (Berry had 20 in 2016 vs. Villanova).
• Berry became the first Tar Heel in history and the first player since Butler's Shelvin Mack in 2010-11 to earn All-Final Four team honors in consecutive years.
• Berry joined James Worthy as the only Tar Heels to win ACC Tournament MVP and Final Four MVP honors. Worthy won both in 1982; Berry won the ACC Tournament MVP in 2016.
• Berry became the sixth player to win both Final Four MVP and ACC Tournament MVP honors in their career. Duke's Christian Laettner is the only other player to do that in separate seasons (Final Four in 1991, ACC in 1992). Duke's Art Heyman (1963), Worthy (1982), Duke's Shane Battier (2001) and Duke's Kyle Singler (2010) won them in the same season.
• Kennedy Meeks and Justin Jackson joined Berry on the All-Final Four team.
• Carolina averaged 81.7 points and allowed only 70.5 points in its six NCAA Tournament games. Only one opponent scored 80 points (Butler).
• Carolina held four of its six NCAA Tourney opponents under 75 points.
• 2017 was the first year UNC played six NCAA Tournament games and held the opponents under 44 percent shooting from the floor in every game. Carolina held its six opponents to 39.6 percent shooting from the floor, including Texas Southern (.367), Arkansas (.433), Butler (.435), Kentucky (.415), Oregon (.379) and Gonzaga (.339).
• Justin Jackson led UNC in scoring in the 2017 NCAA Tournament with 117 points (19.5 per game). That was the third-most points and third-highest average in a six-game NCAA Tournament series by a Tar Heel.
• Luke Maye was the South Regional MVP after scoring a career-high 16 points with 12 rebounds in the Sweet 16 win over Butler and a career-high 17 points and the game-winning shot with 0.3 seconds to play in the win over Kentucky in the regional final.
• Berry and Jackson joined Maye on the All-South Regional team.
• Carolina won four NCAA Tournament games by seven points or less, the first team to do that since Arizona in 1997. Only five teams have done that since the field expanded to 64 and 68 teams in 1985.
• Carolina's 75-73 win over Kentucky in the regional final and its 77-76 win over Oregon in the national semifinal marked the first time UNC won consecutive NCAA games by two points or less since 1969 when it defeated Duquesne, 79-78, in the East semifinal and Davidson, 87-85, in the East final.
• Carolina won three games in the 2017 NCAA Tournament when it shot under 40 percent from the floor. Prior to 2017, UNC was 6-17 in NCAA Tourney games when shooting under 40 percent and four of those six wins came prior to 1968.

ROY'S DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Roy Williams has led UNC to NCAA championships in 2005, 2009 and 2017. Carolina has held its six Final Four opponents in those respective years to a combined field goal shooting of 35.9 percent. That includes:

Opponent FG Percentage, 2005-09-17 Final Fours
Michigan State, 2005 semifinal – .338
Illinois, 2005 championship – .386
Villanova, 2009 semifinal – .329
Michigan State, 2009 championship – .400
Oregon, 2017 semifinal – .379
Gonzaga, 2017 championship – .339
Six-Game Totals – 142 for 395 FG (.359)

• Michigan State and Illinois combined to score 141 points in the 2005 Final Four; Villanova and Michigan State combined to score 141 points in the 2009 Final Four; Oregon and Gonzaga combined to score 141 points in the 2017 Final Four.
• Syracuse and Villanova combined to score 143 points in the 2016 Final Four in which UNC lost in the title game by three points on a last-second three-pointer.
• Carolina allowed those six Final Four opponents to score just 70.5 points per game (high of 76 by Oregon in the 2017 semifinal).
• Michigan State and Illinois shot a combined 36.1 percent from the floor in the 2005 Final Four; Villanova and Michigan State shot 35.8 percent in 2009; Oregon and the Zags shot 35.9 percent in 2017.
• Gonzaga's field goal percentage of .339 was the Zags' lowest of the season and just the third time under 40 percent all year; Oregon's field goal percentage of .379 was the Ducks' lowest in 34 games; Kentucky's field goal percentage of .415 in the regional final was the Cats' lowest in 15 games.

CAROLINA IN CHARLOTTE
• Carolina is 33-1 in NCAA Tournament games played in the state of North Carolina.
• Carolina is 173-18 in games played in the city of Charlotte, including 11-0 in the NCAA Tournament (4-0 in the Spectrum Center).
• UNC beat Washington State and Louisville in the 2008 East Regional, and Long Island University and Washington in the 2011 East first and second rounds.
• The Tar Heels have won 36 of their last 39 games played in Charlotte.
• UNC is 12-0 in the Spectrum Center. That includes wins over Sacred Heart and Winthrop in the Preseason NIT Tipoff in 2006-07, three ACC Tournament wins and two NCAA regional wins in 2007-08, two NCAA Tournament wins in 2010-11 and three regular-season wins over Davidson (including earlier this season on 12/1/17).

CAROLINA-LIPSCOMB
• The Tar Heels beat Lipscomb, 80-66, in the Smith Center on 11/12/2010, in the only previous meeting between the two schools.
• Tyler Zeller led five Tar Heels in double figures with 15 points, John Henson had 10 points, 17 rebounds and seven blocks, and Harrison Barnes scored 14 in his college debut.

RECAPPING THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• Carolina avenged its last two regular-season losses with wins over Duke and Miami and beat Syracuse for the seventh time in a row, before falling to No. 1 ranked Virginia in the championship game.
• Carolina played in the finals for a record 35th time (Duke is second with 32; NC State is third with 17).
• The win over Duke in the semifinal was Carolina's 100th in ACC Tournament play. Duke won its 100th in the quarterfinals. No other school has more than 71 wins.
• Senior guard Joel Berry II 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 in 2018.
• Berry became the first Tar Heel to play in 13 ACC Tournament games (previous high was 12 by Montross, who is the analyst on the Tar Heel Sports Network).
• Berry made 10 three-pointers in the four games, giving him 22 for his career, tied for second with Wayne Ellington behind Marcus Paige (27).
• Berry was one of five Tar Heels to average in double figures in scoring, even though UNC scored 74.2 per game, almost eight points below their season average (82.0).
• Theo Pinson led UNC at 13.3 points per game – he scored 16 against Syracuse and a career-high 25 vs. Miami, before scoring eight against Duke and four in the final vs. Virginia.
• Maye was Carolina's second-leading scorer over the four games at 13.0 per game, but he led UNC in both the semifinal vs. Duke (17) and the championship game vs. UVA (20).
• Kenny Williams was the only Tar Heel to score in double figures in all four games (including team-high 17 vs. Syracuse). Williams averaged 12.5 points and shot a team-high 54.1 percent from the floor (20 of 37).
• Carolina shot only 41.1 percent from the floor in the four games, but reached the finals in large measure due to its defense in the first three games. UNC held its four opponents to 37.6 percent from the floor (season-low .317 by Syracuse, .371 by Miami, .407 by Duke and .420 by Virginia).
• UNC made the same number of three-pointers (29) as it allowed in the four games.
• Syracuse, Miami and Duke combined to shoot 30.8 percent from three-point range; Virginia was 9 of 17 (.529) in the championship game.
• Roy Williams is 25-12 in ACC Tournament play. He is third in ACC Tourney wins behind Mike Krzyzewski (62) and Dean Smith (58).
• Williams is fifth in ACC Tournament winning percentage (.676). 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).
• It was the second time in four seasons UNC reached the championship game by winning three times (also 2015, lost to Notre Dame in the final).

POLL RANKINGS
• Carolina is ranked No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll.
• This is the 37th season Carolina has been ranked in the top 10 in the final AP poll. It is the 26th top-10 ranking in the final poll in the last 38 seasons.
• The March 12th poll, the final AP poll of the 2017-18 season, marks the 80th consecutive week and the NCAA-record 896th time overall the Tar Heels are ranked.
• Carolina was ranked in all 19 weeks of the AP poll this season. This is the fourth consecutive year UNC has been ranked in every week of the AP poll (last time not ranked was in the 16th poll in 2013-14).
• This is the 42nd time in the 70-year history of the poll the AP has ranked Carolina in every week from the pre-season to the final poll.
• Carolina has seven wins this season over teams in the final AP poll – one vs. No. 7 Michigan, two over No. 9 Duke, and one each against No. 13 Tennessee, No. 17 Ohio State, No. 20 Clemson and No. 22 Miami.
• This is the 10th time in 15 years at Carolina and the 19th time in 30 years as a head coach Roy Williams' team is ranked in the top 10 in the final AP poll.

KENPOM RANKINGS
• Carolina is No. 7 in KenPom's overall rankings – fourth in offensive efficiency and 34th in defensive efficiency.
• How challenging a schedule have the Tar Heels played? Carolina's opponents have averaged the No. 1 offensive efficiency and the No.1 defensive efficiency in the nation (KenPom). The only other time a team played against a schedule that was No. 1 in both offensive and defensive efficiency over a full season was Arizona in 2007-08.
• Carolina and Oklahoma 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 121.9 is its second highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1). It is tied for the third highest (behind only 2016 and 2009) under Roy Williams since KenPom's rankings began in 2001-02.

KenPom's Offensive Efficiency
Year Nat'l Rk Rating
2017-18 4 121.9
2016-17 9 120.7
2015-16 1 124.1
2014-15 10 116.5
2013-14 48 111.7
2012-13 27 110.0
2011-12 13 114.0
2010-11 49 109.8
2009-10 102 105.5
2008-09 1 122.4
2007-08 1 120.4
2006-07 4 119.4
2005-06 11 114.5
2004-05 2 121.9
2003-04 11 115.3
2002-03 68 106.4
2001-02 119 103.2

• The Tar Heels have played 13 games this season against teams that are ranked the top 20 nationally in defensive efficiency. UNC is 8-5 in those games (wins over Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio State, Clemson, Duke twice and Syracuse twice; and losses to Michigan State, Virginia twice, Clemson and Duke).
• Luke Maye is No. 9 in KenPom's National Player of the Year rankings.

KPI RANKINGS
• Carolina is No. 5 in the nation in the KPI rankings (Kevin Pauga Index).
• KPI also ranks Carolina's schedule as the most difficult in the nation this year.

AWARDS
• The Sporting News, USA Today and NBC Sports named Luke Maye a third-team All-America.
• Maye and Joel Berry II earned first-team All-ACC honors. Theo Pinson also received votes.
• Maye is the first Tar Heel to make one start as a freshman and sophomore and earn first-team All-ACC honors as an upperclassman.
• Berry is UNC's first senior to play point guard and earn first-team All-ACC honors since Kenny Smith in 1987. Berry joins Tommy Kearns (1957-58), Larry Brown (1963), George Karl (1973), Phil Ford (1976-77-78), Smith (1987), Raymond Felton (2005), Ty Lawson (2009) and Marcus Paige (2014) as the ninth Tar Heel point guard to earn first-team All-ACC honors (12th time).
• This is the first time since 2012 Carolina placed multiple players on the All-ACC first team. That year, three Tar Heels – Tyler Zeller, Harrison Barnes and John Henson – made the first team.
• This is the 23rd season in which two or more Tar Heels made the All-ACC first team: 1957-58-59-60-63-67-68-69-72-76-77-78-82-83-84-87-93-95-98-2005-09-12-18.
• Maye and Berry received the third- and fourth-most votes for All-ACC honors behind ACC Player of the Marvin Bagley III (Duke) and Jerome Robinson (Boston College).
• Maye is the ACC's Most Improved Player. He is the second Tar Heel to win the award in the five years it has been given (Marcus Paige in 2014). UNC is the only school with two Most Improved Player awards.
• Berry and Maye earned All-District honors from the NABC and USBWA.
• Maye is a second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America. Maye is the 15th Tar Heel to earn Academic All-America honors. He is the third in the last eight years (Tyler Zeller in 2011 and 2012; Marcus Paige in 2014, 2015 and 2016).
• Maye is the 2018 winner of the Skip Prosser Award as the ACC's top scholar-athlete in men's basketball. Maye is the third Tar Heel to win the Prosser Award in the last eight years (Tyler Zeller in 2011 and 2012; Paige in 2015 and 2016).
• Maye is the fourth player to win first-team All-ACC honors and the Prosser Award in the same season (with Miami's Jack McClinton in 2009, UNC's Tyler Zeller in 2012 and Duke's Mason Plumlee in 2013). Marcus Paige won both, but in different seasons.
• 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.
• Berry is one of five 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).
• Berry is joined on the Cousy list by Villanova's Jalen Brunson, West Virginia's Jevon Carter, Kansas's Devonte' Graham and Oklahoma's Trae Young.
• Maye is one of 10 finalists for the Karl Malone Award as the nation's top power forward.
• Maye is one of 15 finalists for the John R. Wooden Award (national player of the year). Maye and Duke's Marvin Bagley III are the only ACC players on the list.
• Maye was the only player to win ACC Player of the Week honors three times this season.
• Maye and Pinson were named to the All-Tournament first team and Berry was a second-team honoree at the 2018 ACC Tournament.

TWENTY AND 25 WINS AGAIN
• Carolina's win over Duke in the ACC Tournament semifinals was the 25th win of the season. This is the 38th season in which the Tar Heels have won 25 or more games.
• This is the 23rd time Roy Williams' teams have won 25 or more games (12 times at Kansas and 11 at UNC).
• UNC has won at least 25 games in seven of the last eight seasons (24 in 2014).
• UNC has won at least 20 games for the 60th time and the 14th time in 15 seasons under 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.

NOTEWORTHY
• Joel Berry II is 15th in UNC career scoring with 1,778 points, second in three-pointers made (262) and attempted (707), 10th in free throw percentage (.830) and tied for 13th in assists (446).
• Berry set a UNC 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 school record was 59 set from 2014-17 by Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks.
• Berry, Phil Ford and Marcus Paige are the only players in the top 15 all-time at UNC in scoring and assists.
• Berry has 398 rebounds. With two 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.
• Theo Pinson has raised his scoring average to 10.3 points, and is 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).
• Carolina leads the nation in rebounds per game (42.5), is second in rebound margin (10.0), tied for fourth in assists (18.2) and fourth in offensive rebounds (14.2).
• Carolina is among the nation's top rebounding teams again, despite playing with no starter taller than Luke Maye, who stands 6-8.

REBOUNDS PER GAME
42.5 – North Carolina
42.1 – Bethune-Cookman
41.9 – Duke
41.5 – New Mexico State
41.3 – Texas A&M

REBOUND MARGIN
10.4 – Michigan State
10.0 – North Carolina
9.8 – Wichita State
9.2 – Duke
9.2 – Gonzaga
9.2 – New Mexico State

ASSISTS PER GAME
19.3 – Michigan State
18.8 – TCU
18.5 – Wichita State
18.2 – North Carolina
18.2 – Iowa

• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin in four previous seasons – three of those four have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17, and undefeated national championship season in 1956-57).
• 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 38.2 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
.391 – Duke
.382 – North Carolina
.381 – Cincinnati
.366 – West Virginia
.361 – Michigan State

• Luke Maye (17.2) and Joel Berry II (17.1) lead Carolina in scoring. No Tar Heel pair has averaged 17 points in a season since Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) in 1984.
• Maye (17.2 points/10.1 rebounds) 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 leads UNC in blocked shots with 38. 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 16 double-doubles this year (and 17 in his career, including against Butler in the 2017 NCAA Sweet 16). He has 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
16 by Luke Maye, 2017-18

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 is second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 262. Berry has made 89 threes in 34 games this year (he was injured and did not play in the first game), equaling the third-highest per game rate in school history. The 89 three-pointers tie the fourth-most in a season in UNC history.

CAREER 3FGS
299 – Marcus Paige, 2012-16
262 – Joel Berry II, 2014-active
233 – Shammond Williams, 1994-98
229 – Wayne Ellington, 2006-09
221 – Rashad McCants, 2002-05
221 – Donald Williams, 1991-92

Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (79 in 30 games)
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

Single-Season 3FGs Made
105 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
95 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
94 – Marcus Paige, 2014-15
89 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18
89 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13

Single-Season 3FGS Attempted
284 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
251 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18
238 – Marcus Paige, 2014-15
230 – Joel Berry II, 2016-17
227 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97

• Berry has attempted 707 three-pointers in his career, second most by a Tar Heel (Paige 798).
• Berry is shooting an ACC-best 88.8 percent from the free throw line this year. That is the second-highest in UNC history; he only Tar Heel to have two of the eight-highest free throw percentages in UNC history.

Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98 (133 of 146)
.888 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (103 of 116)
.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

• Three Tar Heels have scored 30 or more points this season – Luke Maye (33 at NC State, 32 vs. NC State and 31 vs. Boston College), Cameron Johnson (32 at Clemson) and Joel Berry II (31 vs. Miami).
• UNC is 21-4 when Kenny Williams scores in double figures and 7-3 when he makes three or more three-pointers.
• Williams leads the team in defensive player of the game awards (10) and charges drawn (34) and is tied for second with 37 steals.
• UNC is 17-3 this season when Theo Pinson has five or more assists.
• UNC is 21-5 when Pinson has more assists than turnovers (including at Clemson when he played less than two minutes) and 2-5 when he has more turnovers.
• Carolina is making 8.3 three-pointers per game, equaling the highest per game average in school history. 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 30.3 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)
30.3 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 34.6 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 19 of 31 games, including 11 of 18 in ACC play. UNC is 13-6 when the opponents make 10 or more threes.
• Carolina's opponents are scoring 40.7 percent of their points on three-pointers, the second-highest percentage against any team in the country (Liberty's opponents score 41.1 percent of their points from three-point range).
• The opponents are making 10.0 three-pointers per game, the highest in a season against the Tar Heels.

OPPONENTS' THREE-POINTERS PER GAME
9.7 – 2017-18
9.6 – 1995-96
8.8 – 1994-95
8.0 – 2016-17
7.9 – 1996-97

• Virginia Tech (12), NC State (15) and Clemson (15) made 42 three-pointers in beating UNC in three straight games in January. Those three opponents made 42 of 90 threes (.467). Over the next 12 games, the opponents have shot 35.5 percent (71 for 200) from three-point range in nine UNC wins and 45.3 percent (29 for 64) in the three Tar Heel losses (Miami, at Duke and Virginia).
• The opponents have shot 50 percent or better from three-point range in four of the last five Tar Heel losses, including the ACC Tournament championship game vs. Virginia.
• Virginia Tech shot 40 percent from three, and Michigan State, Wofford, Florida State, Virginia in Charlottesville and Duke in Durham all shot under 40 percent in their wins over UNC.
• Carolina's opponents are shooting 38.3 percent from three-point range, the third-highest percentage in a season by the opponents.
• Three of Carolina's starters are shooting better than 80 percent from the free throw line this season – Joel Berry II (.888), Cameron Johnson (.862) and Theo Pinson (.820).
• 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 22-2 this year when it leads at the half (home loss to NC State and at Duke) and 3-8 when trailing at the break (wins at Tennessee, at NC State and home vs. Duke).

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Nate Britt

Isaiah Hicks

Justin Jackson

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Kennedy Meeks

Theo Pinson

Kenny Williams