Tar Heels Visit Miami Looking For 3-0 ACC Road Start

GAME 18 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina travels to Coral Gables, Fla., to play Miami on Saturday, Jan. 19. The Tar Heels are 13-4 overall, 3-1 in the ACC, after their 75-69 win over Notre Dame. The Hurricanes are 9-7 overall, 1-3 in league play. The Canes have been idle since 1/12, when they defeated Wake Forest, 76-65.
• Carolina won its first two ACC road games (at Pitt and NC State). The last time UNC won its first three ACC road games was the 2015-16 season (wins at Florida State, Syracuse and Virginia Tech). Roy Williams' Tar Heel teams have started 3-0 on the road three times – in 2007-08, 2014-15 and 2015-16.
• Roy Williams has the second-most ACC road wins (81) and second-highest winning percentage in ACC road games (.633) in conference history.
• Carolina is 4-1 on the road this year with wins at Wofford, Elon, Pitt and NC State. Virginia is the only other ACC team with four road wins this season. Syracuse has three; Duke, Georgia Tech and Louisville each have two; five teams have one and four have none.
• Carolina is second in the ACC and fifth in the country in scoring at 87.4 points per game. The Tar Heels have scored 80 or more points 11 times this season (10-1 when they do), 90 more eight times (8-0) and broken the century mark four times (4-0).
• Carolina trailed Notre Dame by three points at halftime. It was the sixth time this season UNC trailed at the half and the second time the Tar Heels came back to win (also came back to beat UCLA in Las Vegas in November).
• Junior guard Brandon Robinson has made eight of his last 11 three-point attempts. Robinson and freshman guard Coby White share the team with four three-pointers in the last two games. Robinson made one three against Louisville and a career-high three from beyond the arc in the win over Notre Dame.
• Miami's win in Chapel Hill was the second-largest comeback win by a UNC opponent last year (it was the largest in the first 30 games); nine days later in Brooklyn, the Tar Heels overcame a 14-point deficit in beating the Canes, Carolina's largest comeback win all of last season.

UNC-MIAMI SERIES
• Carolina leads the series, 22-8.
• The Tar Heels have won three of the last five over the previous four seasons, while the Canes have won six of the last nine dating back the previous six seasons.
• The teams split two games with Miami winning on Senior Night in Chapel Hill and the Tar Heels knocking Miami out of the ACC Tournament in the quarterfinal round in Brooklyn nine days later.
• Carolina is 8-3 against Miami in Coral Gables, including 6-3 in the Canes' current home arena.
• Carolina's most recent win in Coral Gables came in 2015.
• Carolina's most recent two wins over Miami have come in Brooklyn in the 2017 and 2018 ACC Tournaments.

LAST YEAR'S RECAPS
MIAMI 91, UNC 88 (2/27/18 IN CHAPEL HILL)
• Ja'Quan Newton's game-winning 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 all season, and made 11 of 22 from three-point range.
• It was just the seventh loss for UNC in 207 games under Roy Williams when it shot 50 percent or better from the floor. UNC shot 54.4 percent vs. the Canes.
• Miami scored 20 points off UNC turnovers.
• Carolina led 18-10. That was the largest lead in a loss to that point in the season.
• Carolina's point per possession was 1.11 (88 points on 79 possessions), the highest in a loss all season.
• Miami's points per possession was 1.18 (91 points on 77 possessions), the highest by an opponent in any game all season.
• Joel Berry II led UNC with a season-high 31 points, Theo Pinson had 12 points and a career-high 11 assists and Cameron Johnson scored 20 points.

ACC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINAL
UNC 82, MIAMI 65 (3/8/18 IN BROOKLYN)
• The Tar Heels did not score for the first 7:09 and spotted the Hurricanes a 14-0 lead, then out-scored Miami, 82-51, the rest of the game.
• Carolina missed its first 13 shots from the floor before Seventh Woods scored on a drive and three-point play with 12:51 to play in the first half.
• Brandon Robinson gave UNC its first lead at 19-18 with a three-pointer with 5:57 left in the half.
• The game was tied at 50 with 10:31 to play before the Tar Heels closed the game by out-scoring the Canes, 32-15.
• Theo Pinson scored a career-high 25 points and added 11 rebounds, three assists and three steals.
• Carolina missed its first 13 field goal attempts (seven of which were three-point attempts), then shot 50 percent from the floor over the final 13 minutes of the first half (11 of 22) and 50 percent in the second half (18 of 36).
• Miami, which shot 54.8 percent from the floor and 50.0 percent from three in beating UNC in Chapel Hill on 2/27, shot 37.1 percent from the floor and 31.6 from behind the arc.
• Miami scored 20 points off 13 Tar Heel turnovers in Chapel Hill; in the quarterfinal, UNC turned it over eight times and the Canes scored just five points off those turnovers.
• Cameron Johnson had 13 points, seven rebounds, five assists and no turnovers.
• Luke Maye was 1 for 15 from the floor, but had 13 rebounds. His two points were a season-low.
• Kenny Williams scored 11 and had a career-high three blocked shots.

MISCELLANEOUS
• Carolina is second in the nation in rebounds per game, fifth in scoring, sixth in rebound margin and seventh in assists.
• Carolina is averaging 87.4 points, which is on pace for the fourth-highest figure in Roy Williams' 16 seasons as head coach and the highest since 2008-09.
• Carolina has a rebound margin of plus 10.3 for the season, which is on pace for the fifth highest in UNC history.
• Carolina has more rebounds in 14 of the first 17 games this season and won 12 of those 14 games. UNC is 1-0 when rebounds are even (UCLA) and 0-2 (Kentucky and Louisville) when out-rebounded.
• The Tar Heels have won 85 percent of the games in which they out-rebound the opponents in Roy Williams' 16 seasons as head coach.
• Carolina has finished in the top 10 in the nation in rebound margin in nine of Roy Williams' first 15 seasons at UNC, including No. 1 in the country in 2008, 2012 and 2017. The Tar Heels have finished ninth, ninth, first and third in the nation in the last four years.
• The Tar Heels are averaging 19.1 assists per game, most in a season since 1990-91 (20.0 per game).
• The Tar Heels have finished in the top six in the country in assists per game 11 times under Williams, including second, fourth, fourth and tied for fourth in the last four seasons.
• Carolina is averaging 8.1 three-pointers per game. UNC has made 8.0 or more in only two previous seasons (a school-record 8.3 in 2002-03 and 8.2 in 2017-18).
• KenPom ranks the Tar Heels third in the nation behind Savannah State and FIU in shortest average length of offensive possessions (13.7 seconds) and fifth in tempo (possessions per game).

AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 13 in the Associated Press and No. 15 in the coaches polls this week.
• Carolina is ranked this week in an AP poll for the 907th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• This is the 91st consecutive AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked, dating back to mid-conference play in the 2013-14 season.
• UNC began the year No. 8 in the preseason AP poll. It was the 13th time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams UNC was ranked in the preseason Top 10.
• This season is the 56th time in 71 seasons the Tar Heels have been ranked in the top 10 in at least one week of the poll.
• UNC finished the year in the AP poll top 10 in 10 of Williams' first 15 seasons.
• Carolina has finished in the top 10 37 times, including 26 of the last 38 years. UNC has finished the season ranked in the AP poll 50 times.

NUMBER ONE IN WINS PER SEASON
• This is the 109th season of Carolina Basketball. The Tar Heels have won 2,245 games, third most in NCAA history.
• Carolina has won an average of 20.7 games per season. UNC is the only school in the top 10 in all-time NCAA wins that has averaged at least 20 wins per season.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Brandon Robinson

Coby White

Kenny Williams

Seventh Woods

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