Virginia Visits Monday In Top-10 Matchup

GAME 24 NOTEBOOK
• North Carolina will host Virginia on Monday night in a matchup of top-10 ranked teams in the Smith Center. Tipoff will be just after 7 p.m., and ESPN will televise the game live nationally.
• Carolina leads the nation in rebounds per game (42.9), is second in scoring (88.3) and is fourth in assists (19.7) and rebound margin (+9.7).
• Carolina is 9-1 in ACC play for the first time in Roy Williams' 16-year tenure and the 14th time overall (see the full list on page 3 of the notes). It's Carolina's first 9-1 or better start in league play since the Tar Heels were 11-0 in 2000-01.
• This is the 10th time Carolina and Virginia have played when both teams are ranked in the top 10 in the Associated Press poll (full listing on page 2). The Tar Heels won the last top-10 matchup in the 2016 ACC Tournament championship game and are 6-3 against the Cavaliers in top-10 games.
• Coby White made five three-pointers in the final 7:03 of regulation vs. Miami; four of the five came on the next UNC possession after the Hurricanes had made a three-pointer.
• White's 33-point performance against Miami increased his scoring average to a team-leading 15.9 points per game, the highest by a Tar Heel freshman since Tyler Hansbrough averaged 18.9 in 2005-06.
• White is the second Tar Heel freshman to score 30 or more points twice (J.R. Reid scored 31 twice in 1987), but is the only UNC freshman to score as many as 33 on two occasions. Harrison Barnes (40 vs. Clemson in 2011) and Tyler Hansbrough (40 vs. Georgia Tech in 2006) are the only freshmen to score more in a game than White.
• Carolina has shot 60 percent from the floor in the second half in four of the last six games – .600 at Miami, .606 vs. Virginia Tech, .600 vs. NC State and .640 against Miami.
• Cameron Johnson is the only player in the ACC in the top 10 in field goal percentage (sixth), three-point percentage (second) and free throw percentage (third).
• Luke Maye has scored 71 points in the last three games (23.7 per game). He scored 20 at Louisville, 31 against NC State and 20 in the overtime win over Miami. It's the second time he has scored 20 or more in three consecutive games in his career. He's the first Tar Heel to do that since he had 27 vs. Michigan, 24 at Davidson and 22 vs. Tulane a season ago.

AP TOP-10 MATCHUPS, CAROLINA VS. VIRGINIA
1-15-72: #3 UNC 85, #8 UVA 79 (Charlottesville)
3-28-81: #6 UNC 78, #5 UVA 65 (Philadelphia) ^
1-9-82: #1 UNC 65, #2 UVA 60 (Chapel Hill)
2-3-82: #3 UVA 74, #2 UNC 58 (Charlottesville)
3-7-82: #1 UNC 47, #3 UVA 45 (Greensboro) *
2-10-83: #1 UNC 64, #3 UVA 63 (Chapel Hill)
2-25-01: #9 UVA 86, #2 UNC 66 (Charlottesville)
2-27-16: #3 UVA 79, #7 NC 74 (Charlottesville)
3-12-16: #7 UNC 61, #4 UVA 57 (Washington, D.C.) *
^ NCAA Final Four
* ACC Tournament championship game

UNC-VIRGINIA SERIES
• Carolina leads, 131-56, including 16-10 under head coach Roy Williams.
• Virginia has won the last three and six of the last 10 games against the Tar Heels. Four of those six wins came in Charlottesville, one was in Chapel Hill (2015) and one in Brooklyn in the 2018 ACC Tournament final.
• Carolina is 66-7 against the Cavaliers in Chapel Hill, including 24-4 in the Smith Center.
• Carolina comes into Monday's game fifth in the nation in possessions per game and averages the third-shortest possessions. Virginia is 351st in average length of possession and 353rd in number of possessions per game.
• Neither team has scored in the 80s in the last nine games. UNC is 3-6 in those games.
• The Tar Heels are 7-8 against Tony Bennett's Virginia teams and 1-0 against Bennett at Washington State (2008 NCAA Tournament).
• UNC has scored more than 75 points once in the last 15 games against Virginia and under 65 points 10 times (3-7 in those 10 games).

LAST SEASON'S RECAPS
VIRGINIA 61, UNC 49 (JAN. 6, 2018)
in Charlottesville, Va.
• Carolina scored 49 points, shot 29.6 percent from the floor and committed a season-high 19 turnovers that led to 25 points for the Cavaliers, the most an opponent scored in three seasons.
• It marked the first time in the ACC era UNC scored less than 50 points in consecutive games against an ACC opponent. In 2017, in the second-to-last game in the regular season, the eventual national champion Tar Heels lost 53-43 at UVA.
• Carolina had season lows in fastbreak points (0), points off turnovers (3) and points in the paint (14) and scored only 12 second-chance points.
• The 25 points off turnovers were the most by an opponent since Harvard scored 29 in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina made eight two-point field goals (fewest in the Roy Williams era), eight three-pointers and nine free throws.
• The Tar Heels trailed by only six points with 7:10 to play, but the Cavaliers out-scored UNC 7-1 (a Luke Maye free throw) the rest of the game.
• Joel Berry II (17 points) and Kenny Williams (11) scored in double figures for Carolina.

2018 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
VIRGINIA 71, UNC 63 (MARCH 10, 2018)
in Brooklyn
• Carolina played in the ACC finals for the record 35th time, but dropped to 18-17 after an eight-point loss to No. 1 ranked and top-seeded Virginia.
• Carolina led for only 54 seconds. UNC's last lead was at 5-2.
• Carolina attempted a season-low 49 field goals; the Cavaliers attempted 50, lowest all year by the opponents.
• Carolina scored 63 points on a season-low 66 possessions, but its points per possession of .95 was well ahead of its PPP in the loss at Virginia earlier in the season (.63).
• Carolina's previous low for possessions was 75 at home vs. Notre Dame.
• Virginia scored 71 points on 65 possessions (1.09), the fewest possessions by an opponent all year. The previous low number of possessions was 68 at Virginia.
• Virginia shot only 12 of 33 (.364) from two-point range, but was 9 of 17 on three-pointers (.529) and 20 of 22 (.909) from the free throw line.
• Virginia led by 10 in the first half before the Tar Heels closed the half on a 6-0 run.
• Luke Maye scored 15 of his game-high 20 points in the first half.
• Virginia built a nine-point lead early in the second half, but Carolina pulled with 48-46 and had the ball with a chance to tie or take the lead with just over 11 minutes to play.
• ACC Tournament MVP Kyle Guy then scored six of the Cavaliers' next eight points to re-establish a seven-point advantage.
• Carolina had 15 assists on 20 field goals and committed only nine turnovers (had 19 in Charlottesville); Virginia had 15 assists on 21 field goals and committed four turnovers, the fewest by a Tar Heel opponent all season.
• Maye tied his career high with four three-pointers.
• Theo Pinson led UNC with eight rebounds and six assists, but was 1 for 10 from the floor.

CAROLINA OFF TO 9-1 START IN ACC
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in ACC play for the first time under Roy Williams, the first time since 2001 and the 14th time overall.

ROY'S REMARKABLE ROAD SUCCESS
• Carolina is 5-0 on the road in ACC games this season, which clinches a winning record in ACC road play for the eighth time in nine seasons and the 12th time in Williams' 16 seasons as UNC's head coach.
• Carolina has posted winning road records in ACC play under Williams in: 2005 (6-2), 2006 (7-1), 2008 (8-0), 2009 (6-2), 2011 (6-2), 2012 (7-1), 2013 (5-4), 2014 (5-4), 2015 (6-3), 2016 (6-3), 2017 (5-4) and 2019 (5-0).
• Williams and Carolina have accounted for 12 of the ACC's 45 winning road records (26.7 percent) in conference play in the last 16 seasons.
• Williams is third all-time with 84 ACC road wins behind only Krzyzewski (181) and Smith (133).
• Williams is second in ACC history in road winning percentage in ACC play at 64.1 percent (84-47).

ACC Road Winning Percentage, All-Time
Vic Bubas, Duke .667 (46-23)
Roy Williams, UNC .641 (84-47)
Frank McGuire, UNC/South Carolina .618 (55-34)
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke .611 (181-115)
Dean Smith, UNC .591 (133-92)
through 2/9/19

KEARNS ENDOWS POINT GUARD POSITION
• Tommy Kearns, point guard on the undefeated 1957 NCAA champion Tar Heels, has endowed the positionat UNC, the first of its kind at Carolina Basketball.
• Kearns is endowing the point guard position with his wife, Jane, daughter and two sons.
• Kearns will be recognized at halftime of the UNC-Virginia game.
• "We wanted to do something special," says Kearns. "We especially liked it because it's the first of its kind, and we hope it will prompt others to do something similar."
• "The fact that our former players feel this way about Carolina basketball is something I love," says Roy Williams. "I'm so appreciative of that."

MISCELLANEOUS
• Carolina has won 19 games this season, the 16th time in as many seasons the Tar Heels have won at leats 19 games in the Roy Williams Era.
• Carolina is one win from 20 for the season. The Tar Heels have won at least 20 games 60 times, including 14 of the previous 15 seasons under Roy Williams.
• Williams' teams have won 20 or more games in 28 of his previous 30 seasons as a head coach and 19 or more in all 31, including this season.
• Carolina is one win shy of its 15th consecutive 20-win season.
• Coby White is the third Tar Heel to have at least 33 points and six assists in a game. Charlie Scott did it twice (35 and 9 vs. Clemson on 1/15/70 and 34 and 8 vs. Duke on 1/4/69; Joseph Forte 38 and 6 vs. Tulsa on 11/11/2000).
• White is the 10th Tar Heel to score 33 or more twice in a season, joining: Tyler Hansbrough (2007-08), Joseph Forte (200-01), Antawn Jamison (1997-98), Hubert Davis (1991-92), Al Wood (1980-81), Charlie Scott (1968-69 and 1969-70), Bobby Lewis (1964-65 and 1965-66), Billy Cunningham (1962-63, 1963-64 and 1964-65) and Lennie Rosenbluth (1954-55, 1955-56 and 1956-57).
• Luke Maye scored 31 points on 2/5 vs. NC State and Coby White scored 33 vs. Miami on 2/9. It is the 13th time in history two different Tar Heels have scored 30 in consecutive games. Maye has been involved in the last three instances.
• Five different Tar Heels have won the team's defensive player of the game award in the last five games – Seventh Woods vs. Virginia Tech, Cameron Johnson at Georgia Tech, Kenny Williams at Louisville, Garrison Brooks vs. NC State and Coby White vs. Miami.
• Brooks leads the team with six defensive player of the game awards (and has 14 in two seasons). White is second with five. White has a team-high three in ACC play.
• Carolina has road wins at No. 15 NC State and No. 15 Louisville (both AP). This is the first time since 2012 UNC has two road wins in a season over AP-ranked teams (No. 25 Virginia and No. 4 Duke).
• This is the first time UNC has two road wins over top-15 teams since 2006 (three that season – No. 10 Kentucky, No. 15 NC State and No. 1 Duke).
• Carolina's 79-69 win at Louisville was the first time in UNC history the Tar Heels followed a 20-point home loss with a double-digit win on that same team's home floor.
• It was the first time since 1939 the Tar Heels followed a 20-point home loss with a win, regardless of the margin, later in the same season at that opponent's gym (against Wake Forest when the Deacons played in Wake Forest, N.C.).
• Roy Williams is 630 games over .500 in 31 seasons as a college head coach, including 313 games over .500 in 16 seasons at Carolina.
• Williams has more ACC road wins (84) than 12 of the league's other 14 head coaches have home ACC victories.
• Carolina is 7-1 on the road this year, including 5-0 in ACC play. UNC is the only team in the ACC with seven road wins. Virginia is second with six, and Duke, Louisville and Syracuse have five and Duke has four.
• Carolina is averaging 88.3 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
88.3 in 2018-19
88.0 in 2004-05
85.7 in 2006-07

• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 19 of the first 23 games this season and won 17 of those 19 games. UNC is 1-0 when rebounds are even (UCLA) and 1-2 (beat Miami on 2/9 and lost to Kentucky and home vs. Louisville) when out-rebounded.
• Carolina leads the country in rebounds per game despite having no starter taller than 6'9" (guard Cameron Johnson).
• The Tar Heels have won 86 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, third most in the nation, 10th most in UNC history and the most in a season since 1990-91 (20.0 per game).
• Carolina is 12-0 this season when it has 20 or more assists. The Tar Heels have averaged 22.8 assists in the last five games (26-25-21-16-26).
• 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 made 13 three-pointers in its win over Miami and is averaging a school-record 8.8 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).
• Carolina was 13 for 26 from three-point range in its overtime win over Miami. That was the third-highest percentage in any game in which Carolina attempted that many threes.
Highest Three-Point Percentage,
26 or More Attempts
.519 vs. UNC Asheville, 11-30-08 (14 of 27)
.500 vs. VMI, 12-17-94 (14 of 28)
.500 vs. Miami, 2-9-19 (13 of 26

• The overtime win over Miami was the fourth time this season the Tar Heels made 13 or more three-pointers (13 vs. Gonzaga, 16 vs. Virginia Tech, 13 at Georgia Tech and 13 vs. Miami). The 2017-18 Tar Heels also had four games with at least 13 threes; UNC did that five times in 2012-13. No other UNC squad has made 13 or more threes in at least four games in a season.
• Cameron Johnson is second in the ACC and ninth in the nation in three-point percentage at .477. That is on pace for the third highest percentage 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)
.477 by Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (58 of 123)
.472 by Ty Lawson, 2008-09 (51 of 108)
.464 by Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (78 of 168)

• Johnson has the eighth-highest career percentage by a Tar Heel at 40.6 percent (among players with at least 100 made threes).
Three-Point Percentage, UNC Career
(min. 100 3FGs)
.435 – Hubert Davis, 1988-92 (197 3FGs)
.428 – Jeff Lebo, 1985-89 (211)
.419 – Reyshawn Terry, 2003-07 (103)
.415 – Rashad McCants, 2002-05 (221)
.412 – Dante Calabria, 1992-96 (193)
.403 – Shammond Williams, 1994-98 (233)
.403 – Ty Lawson, 2006-09 (112)
.402 – Cameron Johnson, 2017- (105)

• The Tar Heels have scored 609 of their 2,031 points from three-point range, which amounts to the second-largest percentage (.300) in the Roy Williams Era.
SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs
(UNC in the Roy Williams Era)
30.3 percent – 2017-18
30.0 percent – 2018-19
29.3 percent – 2012-13
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05

• Carolina is seventh in offensive efficiency and 19th in defensive efficiency (KenPom).
• Carolina has finished the season in the top 10 in KenPom's offensive efficiency in eight of the previous 15 seasons, including 10th in 2015, first in 2016, ninth in 2017 and sixth in 2018.
• Eight of this season's opponents are in the AP top 25 poll that was released on 2/4, including five of the top 10 teams (No. 2 Duke, No. 3 Virginia, No. 4 Gonzaga, No. 5 Kentucky, No. 7 Michigan, No. 11 Virginia Tech, No. 16 Louisville and No. 22 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).

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Garrison Brooks

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Coby White

Kenny Williams

Seventh Woods