Carolina Hosts Syracuse In ACC Championship Tuesday

Chapel Hill -- The No. 7 seeded North Carolina Tar Heels (7-7-3, 3-5-0) will host the No. 10 seed Syracuse Orange (7-5-4, 2-4-2) on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the first round of the ACC Championship. The Heels are 3-1-2 all-time against Syracuse with the only loss coming early this season when the Orange beat the Heels, 4-3, in Chapel Hill. The game can be seen on ACC Network beginning at 4:05 p.m. with the winner advancing to the second round against No. 2 seeded Virginia.

History With Syracuse
• This will be the second meeting between UNC and Syracuse this season as they also met on Oct. 12 when Syracuse won 4-3 in Chapel Hill. In a back-and-forth game, Syracuse scored in 42 seconds before UNC scored three straight to take a 3-1 lead. Syracuse scored 3 goals in the final 20 minutes to take the 4-3 win.
• That was the first time UNC has ever lost to Syracuse as the Heels hold a 3-1-2 all-time record.
• UNC is now 1-1-1 all-time hosting Syracuse.
• The last time the two sides met in the post season was in 2015 when Jeremy Kelly scored the game-winning goal to advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals.

Rose's Junior Year Leap
• Alex Rose leads the team in points (16) and goals (7). He currently has career highs in games started (14), games played (16), goals (7), assists (2), points (16), shots (30), shots on goal (11), game-winning goals (2) and minutes (1,020).
• Rose has played in more games this year as he has in his first two years combined.

Hot And Cold Offense
• UNC scored multiple goals in 6 straight games, with three goals in 2 of those 3 games. During that streak, 7 different players have scored with 5 of them scoring more than one goal.
• The six-game streak is the longest streak of multi-goal games since the 2017 team had 7 games in a row. That team was among the best offenses in the country.
• In its last 5 games, UNC has only scored two goals. The last time it had a multi-goal game was against Syracuse.

Team Offense
• 11 different players have scored at least one goal this year while 10 players have also recorded at least one assist.
• In total, 15 players have either scored or assisted so far on the season.

Creating Opportunities
• UNC leads the ACC and is second in the country in corner kicks per game with 7.53.

Rotating Starting Lineup
• 20 different players have started a game for the Heels. 17 of those players have started at least 2 games.

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