Tar Heels Welcome Wofford To Carmichael On Sunday

Sunday, December 15

Chapel Hill (Carmichael Arena)

4 PM

North Carolina

Wofford

Armando Bacot

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

December 14, 2019 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 10 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina returns to action after a week-long break for final exams to play host to Wofford on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. The ACC Network will televise the game.
• The Tar Heels are 6-3 overall and 1-1 in ACC play. UNC is coming off consecutive losses, 74-49 to Ohio State at the Smith Center on Dec. 4 and 56-47 at Virginia on Dec. 8.
• Wofford beat North Greenville 112-66 on Dec. 13, has won four straight and is 6-4.
• Carolina lost consecutive games for the first time since 2/27/2018 (home to Miami) and 3/3/2018 (at Duke). The Tar Heels have not had a three-game losing streak since dropping January games to Virginia Tech, NC State and Clemson in 2018.
• Carolina and Wofford are playing in Carmichael Arena. This is UNC's first regular-season game in Carmichael since a 90-79 win over NC State on 1/4/1986. Following that game, the Tar Heels began playing their home games in the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center. On March 16, 2010, UNC defeated William & Mary in Carmichael in the NIT.
• Carolina played 60 games in Carmichael Auditorium in Roy Williams' tenure as an assistant coach on Dean Smith's staff from 1979-86 and Williams was the head coach when the Tar Heels beat William & Mary, 80-72, in the first round in the 2010 NIT. UNC went 54-7 in those games.
• The UNC-Wofford game is being played in Carmichael because of a scheduling conflict at the Smith Center. The teams agreed several years ago to play this weekend in the third of a three-game series. However, UNC's December Commencement is celebrated annually in the Smith Center and fell on the same date as the game. Wofford played North Greenville on Friday, Dec. 13 so moving the game to the 14th was not an option. Carolina is flying to Spokane, Wash., on Monday for a game at Gonzaga on the 18th, so pushing the game back a day or later also would not work. So the teams agreed to move the game to Carmichael, which is home to UNC's women's basketball, gymnastics, volleyball and wrestling teams.
• Freshmen guards Jeremiah Francis (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) and Anthony Harris (Woodbridge, Va.) played for the first time this season at Virginia. They both were in uniform for the first time during the Ohio State game. Harris tore his left ACL on 12/1/18; Francis underwent a pair of left knee surgeries that caused him to miss both his high school junior and senior seasons.

CAROLINA-WOFFORD SERIES
• The Tar Heels have won four of the five games against Wofford, including two of three under Roy Williams in the modern era.
• This is the fourth game between the schools in the last five seasons. Prior to November 2015, they had not played since 1926.
• Last season in the opening game for both teams, Luke Maye led all scorers with 24 points, Garrison Brooks scored 13 of his career-high 20 in the opening half and Cameron Johnson added five three-pointers in UNC's 78-67 win at Wofford.
• Cameron Johnson made 5 of 7 from three-point range. He broke a 46-all tie with a three, and added two more threes in a 14-5 UNC run that gave the Tar Heels a 60-51 lead.
• On 12/20/2017, Fletcher Magee scored 16 of his game-high 27 points in the second half and Cameron Jackson had 18 points, nine rebounds, six blocks, three assists and three steals to lead Wofford to a 79-75 win at the Smith Center.
• Carolina came into that game No. 1 in the nation in the NCAA's RPI.
• Joel Berry II led UNC with 23 points and Luke Maye had 17 points and 14 rebounds, but the duo was a combined 11 for 32 from the floor.
• The loss snapped UNC's 23-game home winning streak and UNC's 22-game home winning streak against non-conference opponents.
• The box scores from the previous two games are on page 5 of these notes.

CARMICHAEL
• The Tar Heels played their home games in Carmichael Auditorium from December 1965 to January 1986, compiling a 169-20 record (.894).
• Carolina's winning percentage in Carmichael, including the 2010 NIT win over William & Mary, is .895, its highest among the five on-campus venues the Tar Heels have called home.

UNC WIN PERCENTAGE BY HOME VENUE
.895 in Carmichael Auditorium/Arena, 1965-86, 2010
.867 in the Indoor Athletic Center, 1924-34
.851 in the Smith Center, 1986-
.803 in Bynum Gym, 1911-23
.790 in Woollen Gym, 1939-65

• Prior to Carmichael, the Tar Heels played their home games in Woollen Gym.
• The building was named for William D. (Billy) Carmichael, who played for the Tar Heels from 1917-20 and in 1921-22 and was later the University's comptroller and vice president of the UNC system. His brother, Cart, was Carolina's first All-America in 1923 and 1924.
• Dean Smith was the only UNC head coach from 1965-86.
• UNC's first game in Carmichael was an 82-68 win over William & Mary on 12/4/1965.
• Carolina went undefeated in Carmichael in seven seasons, including 10-0 in 1977-78 (Phil Ford's senior season). The 10 wins were the most Carmichael wins in any season.
• Carolina beat Duke (18-2), Maryland (18-2), NC State (18-3) and Virginia (18-2) 18 times in Carmichael.
• The Tar Heels' longest ACC winning streak against one opponent in Carmichael was 18 games against Duke. UNC lost its first and last games against the Blue Devils and won the 18 games in between.
• UNC was 13-0 against Clemson, its best unbeaten record against an ACC opponent in Carmichael (the teams alternated home sites and played annually in Charlotte in the North-South doubleheader from 1959-1973).
• Four of UNC's 20 losses in Carmichael came against non-ACC opponents – Virginia Tech on 2/12/1966, Princeton on 1/2/1967, Miami of Ohio on 2/21/1973 and Villanova on 2/13/1983.
• Wake Forest was the only team to beat the Tar Heels four times in Carmichael. NC State (3), Duke (2), Maryland (2), South Carolina (2), Virginia (2) and Georgia Tech (1) also defeated the Tar Heels in Carmichael in ACC play.
• ACC Network analyst Dan Bonner, who is calling the UNC-Wofford game, played three games as a Virginia Cavalier in Carmichael. His UVA teams went 1-2 against the Tar Heels, winning in 1973 and losing to UNC in 1974 and 1975. He totaled 23 points in the three games, including a team-high 19 (on 11 of 12 free throw shooting) in the 1975 game.

"LAST GAMES" IN CARMICHAEL
• Carolina beat Clemson on 2/23/1985 in what was supposed to have been the last men's basketball game in Carmichael. The Tar Heels scheduled UCLA to open the Smith Center in the first game of the 1985-86 season. However, work on the Smith Center wasn't completed in time to play the Bruins there, so UNC played that game and four more in Carmichael.
• The final regular-season game was played on 1/4/1986, a 90-79 win over Jim Valvano's NC State Wolfpack. Brad Daugherty led four Tar Heels in double figures with a game-high 28 points. Kenny Smith had 12 points, 10 assists and three steals.
• Two weeks later, the Smith Center opened as No. 1 UNC beat No. 3 Duke, 95-92.
• The next men's basketball game in Carmichael came on 3/16/2010, an 80-72 win over William & Mary in the first round of the NIT. Senior forward Deon Thompson led UNC with 20 points. William & Mary made 16 three-pointers, most ever against UNC to that point, but Carolina closed the game on a 11-0 run to advance to the second round. UNC was sent on the road to Starkville, Miss., and Birmingham, Ala., in the next two NIT games and eventually advanced to New York, where it played in the semifinal against Rhode Island and the championship game vs. Dayton.

HONORING HALL OF FAMER BOBBY JONES
• Bobby Jones will be honored at halftime of the UNC-Wofford game.
• Jones, a 1974 All-America and eight-time NBA All-Defensive team honoree, became the 11th Tar Heel player or coach inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame.
• Jones was inducted in September 2019. He is the second Tar Heel to enter the Naismith Hall of Fame in as many years (with Charlie Scott in 2018) and the seventh in the last two decades.
• Jones joined Tar Heels Scott, Michael Jordan, Roy Williams, James Worthy, Larry Brown, Bob McAdoo, Billy Cunningham, Dean Smith, Frank McGuire and Ben Carnevale in receiving basketball's highest honor.
• Jones played his home games as a Tar Heel in Carmichael Auditorium. He was a central figure in Carolina's memorable 'eight points in 17 seconds' comeback win over Duke in his final home game as a senior in 1974.