Tar Heels To Visit Yellow Jackets On Tuesday Night

GAME 20 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina returns to action for the first time in eight days (last played Virginia Tech on 1/21) when it visits Georgia Tech on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The game will be televised by RSN.
• Carolina is 13th nationally in offensive efficiency per KomPom, while the Yellow Jackes are 13th in defensive efficiency. The Tar Heels are also 15th in defensive effiiciency.
• Carolina is 3-0 in ACC road games. The Tar Heels have won their first four ACC road games once in the Roy Williams Era, in 2007-08, when UNC went 8-0 on the road in league play.
• Roy Williams has led UNC to 210 wins in ACC play (regular season and Tournament). Williams is tied for third in ACC history with former Maryland head coach Gary Williams. Mike Krzyzewski (480) and Dean Smith (422) are one-two in ACC wins.
• Williams is 82-47 in ACC road games, a winning percentage of .636 that is the second-best in ACC history. Only 10 of the league's 82 coaches in history have won at least half of their road games and just four have a winning percentage of .600 or better – Duke's Vic Bubas, Williams, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and UNC/South Carolina's Frank McGuire.
• Carolina is 5-1 in ACC play for the first time since 2017, when the Tar Heels lost their league opener in Atlanta, then reeled off seven wins in a row.
• Carolina scored 103 points against No. 4 Gonzaga and No. 10 Virginia Tech. It's the first time Carolina has scored 100 points against two ranked teams (AP) in the same season since 2008-09 (vs. No. 8 Notre Dame and No. 6 Duke).
• Carolina and Virginia Tech combined for 29 three-pointers, most ever in a game in the Smith Center. The previous high was 28 by UNC (16) and Western Carolina (12) on 12/6/17.
• Carolina attempted 34 three-pointers and 33 field goals from inside the arc, just the third time in 569 games under Roy Williams UNC attempted more threes than twos (last year's home win over Clemson and the ACC championship game vs. Virginia in Brooklyn).
• Roy Williams is 626 games over .500 in 31 seasons as a head coach, including 309 wins over .500 as Carolina's head coach.
• Please note Garrison Brooks' hometown (Lafayette, Ala.) is pronounced luh-FET, not LAH-fah-YET.

NETWORK TV LIST FOR UNC AT GEORGIA TECH
• Fox Sports South and these other Fox Sports affiliates (Detroit Plus, Midwest Plus, North, Prime Ticket, San Diego, Southwest, Southwest Plus, Sun, Wisconsin Plus and Washington Plus)
• AT&T Sportsnet (Las Vegas, Pittsburgh and Rocky Mountains)
• NBC Sports Washington Plus
• NESN Plus
• ROOT Sports Northwest
• SportsTime Ohio
• YES Network (delayed, aired at midnight)

UNC-GEORGIA TECH SERIES
• Carolina leads, 68-25, including 14-9 under Roy Willaims.
• The Tar Heels are 21-14 against the Yellow Jackets at Georgia Tech (that does include a 3-1 record against Tech in neutral site games played in Atlanta), including 15-12 in McCamish Pavlion/Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
• The Tar Heels have won eight of the last nine overall. That includes a 3-1 record in McCamish Pavilion.
• Tech beat the Tar Heels, 75-63, in McCamish Pavilion on 12/31/2016, the last time the teams played in Atlanta. That game was the ACC opener for UNC, which went on to win the NCAA title that season.

LAST TIME: UNC 80, GEORGIA TECH 66
1/20/18 IN CHAPEL HILL
• Carolina out-rebounded the Yellow Jackets, 46-25, including a 19-6 edge on the offensive boards, and scored 26 second-chance points (Tech had four).
• Carolina committed 10 turnovers in the first half, but the Yellow Jackets only scored two points of those 10 turnovers.
• Four Tar Heels scored in double figures (Luke Maye 17, Cameron Johnson 16, Joel Berry II 16 and Theo Pinson 11).
• Pinson added 10 rebounds, four assists and three steals.
• Maye had a game-high 11 rebounds.

MISCELLANEOUS
• Carolina is second in the nation in rebounds per game, third in assists and scoring and fourth rebound margin.
• Carolina's win over 10th-ranked Virginia Tech was the 19th time in Roy Williams' 16 seasons Carolina played host to a higher-ranked ACC opponent in the AP poll. UNC is 10-9 in those 19 games (3-6 vs. Duke; 2-0 vs. Louisville; 1-0 vs. Georgia Tech, Florida State, NC State, Pitt and Virginia Tech; and 0-1 vs. Boston College, Notre Dame and Virginia).
• Carolina has won four straight games against higher-ranked ACC teams in the Smith Center (Virginia Tech on 12/1/19, wins in 2016-17 vs. Florida State and Louisville and last year vs. Duke) and seven of the last 10.
• The Virginia Tech game marked the first time this season, and just the third time in 16 seasons, that the Tar Heels attempted more three-point field goals (34) than two-pointers (33). That happened for the first time under Roy Williams last season (home win over Clemson and again in the ACC Tournament final vs. Virginia).
• Carolina is 5-1 on the road this year, including 3-0 in ACC play. UNC and Virginia are the only teams in the ACC with five road wins. Duke, Louisville and Syracuse each have three road wins (the Blue Devils play at Notre Dame on 1/28), four schools have two, two schools have one and four schools have yet to win on the road.
• Carolina is averaging 88.1 points, which is on pace for the third-highest figure in Roy Williams' 16 seasons as head coach and the highest since 2008-09.
Highest Scoring Average, 2003-present
89.8 in 2008-09
88.6 in 2007-08
88.1 in 2018-19
88.0 in 2004-05
85.7 in 2006-07

• Carolina has a rebound margin of plus 10.2 for the season, which is on pace for the fourth highest in UNC history.
Highest Rebound Margin, UNC All-Time
12.3 in 2016-17
11.0 in 2007-08
10.8 in 1956-57
10.4 in 2011-12
10.2 in 2018-19

• Carolina has more rebounds in 16 of the first 19 games this season and won 14 of those 16 games. UNC is 1-0 when rebounds are even (UCLA) and 0-2 (Kentucky and Louisville) when out-rebounded.
• Carolina leads the ACC and is fourth in the country in rebounds per game despite having no starter taller than 6'9" (guard Cameron Johnson).
• 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 19.7 assists per game, 10th most in UNC history and the 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.
• Coming off the Virginia Tech game in which UNC made 16 threes (tied the second most in a game in school history), Carolina is averaging a school-record 8.6 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).
• Cameron Johnson is second in the ACC in three-point percentage at .465. That is on pace for the fourth highest in a season by a Tar Heel.
Highest Three-Point Percentage, UNC Season
.496 by Dante Calabria, 1994-95 (66 of 133)
.489 by Hubert Davis, 1990-91 (64 of 131)
.472 by Ty Lawson, 2008-09 (51 of 108)
.465 by Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (46 of 99)
.464 by Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (78 of 168)

SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs
(UNC in the Roy Williams Era)
30.3 percent – 2017-18
29.3 percent – 2012-13
29.2 percent – 2018-19
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05

• The Tar Heels have scored 489 of their 1,674 points from three-point range, the third-largest percentage in the Roy Williams Era.
• Carolina is attempting 34.4 percent of its field goals from three-point range. That is the second-highest percentage in the Roy Williams era. The high was 35.1 percent in 2017-18. Prior to last season, the previous high was 31.7 percent in 2005-06.
• KenPom ranks the Tar Heels third in the nation behind Savannah State and FIU in shortest average length of offensive possessions (13.9 seconds) and fifth in tempo (possessions per game).
• Carolina is 15th in the country in KenPom's defensive efficiency (points per 100 possessions). The Tar Heels' 19 opponents to date have a combined average offensive efficiency of No.7 in the country. Michigan State, Purdue and Kansas are the only teams ranked in KenPom's top 40 that have played schedules whose opponents have a better combined offensive efficiency.

AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is back in the top 10 in the Associated Press poll released 1/28. This is Carolina's first top-10 ranking since the Dec. 17 poll.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 909th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• It is the 93rd consecutive AP poll in which the Tar Heels are 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 2,247 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.

NO. 1 SCHEDULE IN THE COUNTRY
• Carolina's complete 2018-19 schedule is rated the No. 1 most difficult schedule in the country by NCAA.com.
• Nine of this season's opponents are in the AP top 25 poll that was released on 1/28, including five of the top 10 teams (No. 2 Duke, No. 3 Virginia, No. 4 Gonzaga, No. 5 Michigan, No. 7 Kentucky, No. 12 Virginia Tech, No. 15 Louisville, No. 23 NC State and No. 25 Florida State).
• UNC plays eight ACC teams that played in the 2018 NCAA Tournament. Three of the four ACC teams the Tar Heels play twice played in the 2018 NCAA Tournament (Duke, Miami and NC State) and the fourth (Louisville) won 22 games.
• KenPom has ranked Carolina's final strength of schedule in the top six in the country in each of the last four seasons, including the most difficult in 2014-15 and 2017-18 (No. 6 in 2015-16 and 2016-17).
• KenPom currently ranks Carolina's strength of schedule (teams played thus far) as No. 12 in the country.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Garrison Brooks

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

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