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University of North Carolina Athletics
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Carolina Returns Home Vs. Yale On Monday Night
December 29, 2019 | Men's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL—Carolina will return to action after a nine-day break when it hosts Yale on Monday December 30 at 7 p.m. in the Smith Center. The ACC Network will televise the game live.
GAME 13 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 7-5 overall, 6-4 in non-conference action. The Yale game is the Tar Heels' final regular-season, non-conference game on the schedule this season.
• Carolina is playing for the first time in nine days, since defeating UCLA, 74-64, in Las Vegas in the CBS Sports Classic on December 21.
• Roy Williams is fifth all-time in wins by a Division I coach with 878. Dean Smith, who led UNC from 1961-97, is fourth with 879. Williams spent 10 years as an assistant coach on Smith's staff at UNC from 1978-88.
• The win over UCLA ended a four-game losing streak, UNC's longest since 2009-10. Three of the four losses were against teams ranked in the top six in the country – No. 6 Ohio State, No. 5 Virginia and No. 2 Gonzaga.
• UNC is 1-4 in December. This is the first time UNC has lost four games in December since 1999-2000 (Michigan State, Cincinnati, Indiana and Louisville). UNC has not lost five times in December since the 1950-51 season.
• This is the final game in the calendar year 2019. The Tar Heels are 27-9 in 2019.
• Carolina began and is ending 2019 against Ivy League opponents. The Tar Heels defeated Harvard, 77-57, in the Smith Center on 1/2/2019.
• Carolina's first game in the 2020s is January 4 at home against Georgia Tech. The game against the Yellow Jackets is the first of 18 consecutive ACC games leading into the ACC Tournament.
• Carolina's next four games vs. Yale, Georgia Tech (Jan. 4), Pittsburgh (Jan. 8) and Clemson (Jan. 11) is the longest homestand of the season.
• The Tar Heels have lost their last two home games (to Ohio State in the Smith Center and to Wofford in Carmichael Arena). Carolina has not lost three consecutive home games since 2010 when it lost four in a row, all in the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels are 6-1 against Yale with wins in each of the last six encounters.
• This is the first time the teams have played since an 85-74 Tar Heel victory in Carmichael Auditorium on 2/4/1980. Mike O'Koren led UNC with 20 points, seven rebounds and six assists and Al Wood had 16 points and five assists in that win.
• This is Roy Williams' first game against Yale as a head coach. He was an assistant when the teams played in 1980.
• Carolina is 5-0 against Ivy League teams under Williams (3-0 vs. Penn, 2-0 vs. Harvard).
LAST THREE GAMES WITHOUT ANTHONY
• Carolina is 1-2 since leading scorer Cole Anthony went out of the lineup with a right knee injury.
• The Tar Heels are averaging 73.0 points in the last three games (68.7 in the first nine).
• Garrison Brooks has led UNC in scoring in the last three games at 15.0 points per game. Brooks is 20 of 32 from the floor (.625).
• Brooks is the only Tar Heel averaging double figures. Senior guard Brandon Robinson is second at 9.3 ppg; freshmen Armando Bacot (8.3), Anthony Harris (8.0) and Jeremiah Francis (7.7) are the next three highest scorers in Anthony's absence.
• Francis, who has come off the bench to play 22 minutes a game in the three contests, leads UNC in assists in that stretch with 10. Robinson is next with nine assists.
WILLIAMS ONE WIN SHY OF TYING DEAN SMITH
• The win over UCLA was Carolina head coach Roy Williams' 878th, moving him within one of Dean Smith, who is fourth all-time in wins by a Division I head coach. Williams passed Adolph Rupp for fifth place with the win over Oregon on Nov. 29.
• Roy Williams has won 460 games as UNC's head coach, fourth most at an ACC school. Gary Williams won 461 games at Maryland.
MOST WINS BY A DIVISION I HEAD COACH
1142 Mike Krzyzewski
953 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
879 Dean Smith
878 Roy Williams
876 Adolph Rupp
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1069 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
460 Roy Williams North Carolina
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
STAT TRENDS
• The Tar Heels lead the nation in rebounds per game (44.6), are eighth in offensive rebounds per game (14.3) and 10th in rebound margin (+9.4).
• Carolina scored a season-high 81 points at Gonzaga. It was the first time this season the Tar Heels scored 80 or more points. It was the first time UNC scored less than 80 points in each of the first 10 games since 1949-50.
• Carolina has shot under 50 percent from the floor in the first 12 games. That's the longest stretch to open a season since the 1959-60 team shot 53.6 percent against Duke in the 16th game of the season.
• Carolina shot 45.6 percent at Gonzaga, which matched the team's second-highest percentage in a game this season (with Gardner-Webb in the third game; season-high is .467 against Notre Dame in the opener).
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.405) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season and its three-point percentage (.295) is its lowest ever.
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring at 69.8 points per game. Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.
• In Roy Williams' previous 16 seasons, Carolina has led the ACC in scoring eight times, finished second five times and third three times.
• No Roy Williams-coached team in 16 previous seasons at UNC has averaged less than 74.5 points per game (in 2009-10). The lowest scoring average in his 15 seasons at Kansas (1988-2003) was 72.1 in 1998-99. Williams' teams have averaged 80 or more points in 23 of his previous 31 seasons as a head coach.
• Carolina has already used four different starting lineups in 12 games. Last year, the Tar Heels used two starting lineups – one for 35 games and another for one.
KENPOM NOTABLES
• This season Ken Pomeroy began tracking 'minutes continuity,' which determines what percentage of a team's minutes are played by the same player from last season to this season. The national average is approximately 50 percent.
• Carolina is 326th in minutes continuity at 24.6 percent.
• Carolina has played the seventh most difficult schedule in the country. UNC has already played against (current AP rankings) No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 6 Oregon, No. 11 Michigan and No. 16 Virginia. Third-ranked Louisville, No. 4 Duke and No. 17 Florida State are among UNC's conference foes.
• Carolina is 300th in effective field goal percentage at .450. That is UNC's lowest since KenPom began tracking stats in 2001-02. The previous low was .480 in 2009-10. UNC has been above 50 percent in each of the last five seasons.
• Carolina is 295th in two-point percentage (.451), 284th in 3FG percentage (.295) and 319th in free throw percentage (.636).
• Carolina is No. 24 nationally in offensive rebound percentage. The Tar Heels grab 35.5 percent of their own misses.
MEDIA POLLING
• Carolina is not ranked in the Associated Press poll for the second week in a row. UNC had been ranked in the top 10 in each of the first five weeks of the 2019-20 AP poll.
• The December 16th poll marked the first time in 107 polls the Tar Heels were not ranked in the AP poll.
• The last time UNC was not in the AP top 25 was the 16th week in the 2013-14 season.
• UNC has finished the season in the top 10 in each of the last four seasons (3 in 2015-16, 5 in 2016-17, 10 in 2017-18 and 3 in 2018-19).
• Carolina has been ranked in 922 AP polls, the most rankings of any school in the country.
• Carolina has finished in the Top 10 of the AP poll 38 times, including 27 of the previous 39 years.
AP POLL STREAKS
• Carolina's 106-week streak of being ranked in the AP poll was the third longest in UNC history and the sixth longest in ACC history.
• UNC's longest streaks include:
172 weeks from 11/1/90 to 1/18/2000;
171 weeks from 12/5/72 to 12/14/82;
106 weeks from 2/24/14 to 12/16/2019;
87 weeks from 11/27/84 to 12/5/90
2019 SIGNEES
• R.J. Davis, a 5-11 guard from White Plains, N.Y.
• Donovan "Puff" Johnson, a 6-7 forward from Moon Township, Pa.
• Walker Kessler, a 7-0 forward from Newnan, Ga.
• Caleb Love, a 6-3 guard from St. Louis, Mo.
• Day'Ron Sharpe, a 6-10 forward from Greenville, N.C.
