Tar Heels Close Regular Season At Duke

• The Tar Heels are 22-8 overall, 11-6 in the ACC. Carolina is 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 road wins at Stanford, Davidson, Tennessee, Notre Dame, NC State, Louisville and at Syracuse. Those teams have a combined home record of 86-26.
• UNC is in third place in the ACC with an 11-6 record. The Tar Heels are one game behind Duke (12-5) and one game ahead of Clemson, Miami, NC State and Virginia Tech (all 10-7).
• The Tar Heels would tie Duke for second place and earn the No. 2 seed in the ACC Tournament with a win in Durham.
• Carolina would finish tied for third, but could be seeded anywhere from 4-6, with a loss at Duke.
• 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).
• Carolina and Duke rank in the top two in the ACC in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounding and assists, the top three in scoring margin and the top four in field goal percentage.
• 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).

SCHEDULE NOTES
• Carolina is No. 6 in the NCAA's RPI (as of 3/2). UNC's opponents have an average RPI of 78, which is the fourth highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is the second-most difficult in the nation.
• The Blue Devils are No. 5 in the RPI.
• Carolina has played eight games against teams in the top 25 in the RPI. The Tar Heels are 5-3 with wins over Duke (5), Clemson (8), Tennessee (9), Ohio State (18) and Michigan (25).
• The top five strength of schedules are: 1- Vanderbilt, 2- North Carolina, 3- Kansas, 4- Ole Miss and 5- Xavier.
• Carolina has 10 wins over current Quadrant I opponents, second most in the country behind Kansas (11). Virginia is third with nine.
• The Tar Heels' non-conference strength of schedule is the 11th-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 No. 7 in KenPom's overall rankings – fourth in offensive efficiency and 54th in defensive efficiency. Duke is third overall in KenPom – second in offense and 15th in defense.
• Carolina's first 30 opponents average the eighth-best offensive efficiency and the No.1 defensive efficiency in the nation.
• Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas 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 122.8 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
• Luke 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, Marcus Paige in 2015 and 2016).
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.

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.

CAROLINA-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 136-110.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 13-18 against Duke as Carolina's head coach, including 6-8 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Carolina is 36-44 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The 36 wins are the most by any opponent in Cameron.
• The Tar Heels have played 246 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• Carolina is 43-45 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 38 of the ACC's 64 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 20 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 31 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 37 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 36 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.
• Roy Williams is 14-21 against Duke – 13-18 at Carolina and 1-3 while the head coach at Kansas. During his 10-year tenure as Dean Smith's assistant, Carolina was 16-11 against the Blue Devils.
• This is the first UNC-Duke game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 10 since March 3, 2012, when No. 6 Carolina beat No. 4 Duke in Durham.
• This is the 45th UNC-Duke game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 10. Each team has 22 wins when both teams are in the top 10.
• Carolina and Duke are playing for the 247th time overall and the 10th consecutive game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• This is the 147th consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.

LAST TIME THEY MET
UNC 82, DUKE 78 (FEB. 8)
• 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 II led all scorers with 21 points and had six assists and no turnovers.
• 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).
• Johnson had a career-high 13 rebounds in his third career double-double. He had 18 points and made four three-pointers.
• 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 fewest in an ACC game by UNC (previous low was three against Virginia in the 1982 ACC final and at Duke on 2/24/1979).
• 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.
• 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.

GAME 30: MIAMI 91, UNC 88
• Ja'Quan Newton's game-wining three at the buzzer was the first by an opponent since Kris Jenkins of Villanova in the 2016 national championship game.
• Miami shot 54.8 percent from the floor for the game, the highest by an opponent this season.
• Miami made 11 of 22 from three-point range. The opponents have made 50 percent from three-point range in each of Carolina's last three losses (15x30 by NC State, 15x30 at Clemson and 11x22 by Miami).
• It was the second loss this season and just the seventh in 207 games under Roy Williams that the Tar Heels lost a game when they shot 50 percent or better from the floor. UNC shot 54.4 percent vs. the Canes. UNC is now 11-2 this season when shooting 50 percent or better from the floor.
• Miami scored 20 points off UNC turnovers. In the previous three games, Notre Dame, Louisville and Syracuse combined to score 18 points off Tar Heel turnovers.
• Carolina has allowed 90 points twice this year – 95 in an overtime home loss to NC State and 91 to Miami.
• Carolina led 18-10. That was the largest lead in a loss this season. The previous was seven points in the home loss to Wofford.
• Carolina's point per possession was 1.11 (88 points on 79 possessions), the highest in a loss this season.
• Miami's points per possession was 1.18 (91 points on 77 possessions), the highest by an opponent in any game this season.
• Joel Berry II scored a season-high 31 points. It tied his career high (at Clemson on 1/3/17).
• Berry tied his season high with five three-pointers. It was the third time this season he made five threes (at Stanford and at Louisville). It was the seventh time in his career he made five or more in a game. He made five against Duke last year in the final home game of the season.
• Berry's career-high tying 31 points moved him past Wayne Ellington, Rick Fox, Billy Cunningham, Brice Johnson and Rashad McCants into 16th place in UNC career scoring with 1,723 points. George Lynch is 15th with 1,747.
• Theo Pinson had 12 points and a career-high 11 assists. It was his first career double-double in points-assists and the first by a Tar Heel since Joel Berry II had 11 and 11 against Appalachian State on 12/21/15.
• Berry is the fourth Tar Heel with 1,700 points and 400 assists with Walter Davis, Phil Ford and Marcus Paige.
• Pinson extended his double-figure scoring streak to a career-long five games.
• This was just the second loss for UNC in 17 games this season when Pinson had five or more assists.
• Pinson's 11 assists were the most by a Tar Heel since Berry had 11 vs. Appalachian State on 12/21/15.
• Luke Maye recorded his 15th double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 rebounds. That is the fifth most in a season in the Roy Williams era.
• It was the second time this season Luke Maye and Theo Pinson had double-doubles in the same game, but UNC lost both times (NC State and Miami).
• Cameron Johnson scored 20 points. It was his eighth career 20-point game and his third as a Tar Heel.

QUICK HITTERS
• Joel Berry II (18.2) and Luke Maye (17.9) 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.
• Berry and Maye 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 (17.9 points and 10.2 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 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 15 double-doubles this year (and 16 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
15 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

• Joel Berry II has scored 169 points in the last eight games (21.2 per). That's the most points Berry has scored in any eight-game stretch in his career (previous was 159 from the Davidson through the Florida State game earlier this season). His highest nine-game scoring total is 176.
• Berry is second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 252. Berry has made 79 threes in 29 games this year, the highest per game rate in school history. He is second in the ACC in threes at 2.72 per game.

Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.72 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (79 in 29 games)
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

• Berry has attempted 671 three-pointers in his career, second most by a Tar Heel (Paige 798).
• Berry is shooting 87.6 percent from the free throw line this year. He 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)
.878 – Jeff Lebo, 1987-88
.877 – Marcus Paige, 2013-14
.876 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (92 of 105)
.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

• The Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (42.7) and rebound margin (11.2), are tied for fourth in assists (18.2) and are seventh in offensive rebounds (14.0).
• 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
42.7 – North Carolina
41.9 – Duke
41.7 – Bethune-Cookman
41.5 – UC Irvine
41.1 – Texas A&M

REBOUND MARGIN
11.2 – North Carolina
10.7 – Michigan State
10.1 – Wichita State
9.5 – Duke
9.0 – Gonzaga

Highest Rebound Margin in UNC History
2016-17 12.3
2017-18 11.2
2007-08 11.0
1956-57 10.8
2011-12 10.4

ASSISTS PER GAME
19.9 – Michigan State
19.2 – TCU
18.9 – Wichita State
18.2 – North Carolina
18.2 – Iowa
18.2 – Creighton

• 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
.395 – Duke
.390 – Cincinnati
.389 – North Carolina
.371 – West Virginia
.363 – Michigan State

• Carolina is 37th in the country in protecting its defensive backboards. The Tar Heels are rebounding 75 percent of the opponents' missed field goals and free throws.
• 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 18-2 when Kenny Williams scores in double figures and 7-2 when he makes three or more three-pointers.
• Williams leads the team in defensive player of the game awards (9), steals (33) and charges drawn (28).
• Theo Pinson has 47 assists in the last seven games (6.7 per game). UNC is 15-2 this season when he has five or more.
• UNC is 19-4 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 8.4 three-pointers per game, 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
8.4 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 34.3 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 30 games, including 11 of 17 in ACC play. UNC is 13-6 when the opponents make 10 or more threes.
• Carolina's opponents are scoring 40.8 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 10.1 three-pointers per game, the highest in a season against the Tar Heels.

OPPONENTS' THREE-POINTERS PER GAME
10.1 – 2017-18
9.6 – 1995-96
8.8 – 1994-95
8.0 – 2016-17
7.9 – 1996-97

• Carolina's opponents are shooting 38.7 percent from three-point range, equaling the second-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 38.7 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 – Joel Berry II (.876), Cameron Johnson (.867) and Theo Pinson (.822).
• 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 3-7 when trailing at the break.
• Carolina is 11-2 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 11 of the last 15 halves, beginning with the second half of the loss at Clemson on 1/30.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Nate Britt

Isaiah Hicks

Justin Jackson

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Kenny Williams