Tar Heels Visit Duke Wednesday In Top-10 Matchup

GAME 26 NOTEBOOK
• Eighth-ranked North Carolina will visit top-ranked Duke on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham. ESPN and Raycom will televise the game.
• Carolina leads the ACC in points (87.5), rebounds (42.5) and assists (19.6) per game and rebound margin (+9.4 per game).
• Carolina is second in the ACC in three-point field goals per game (a school-record 9.1), its highest ACC ranking since leading the league in 2012-13 (7.6 per game).
• Luke Maye is the 21st Tar Heel with 800 or more rebounds. He had seven at Wake Forest and has 806 in his career. Jason Capel is 20th with 807; Mike O'Koren is 19th (815).
• Cameron Johnson has made 230 career three-pointers – 116 in three seasons at Pitt and 113 in 51 games over the last two seasons as a Tar Heel. Only three Tar Heels ever made more three-pointers than Johnson – Marcus Paige (299), Joel Berry II (266) and Shammond Williams (233).
• This is the 65th season of ACC Basketball. Carolina (10-2) has clinched a winning record in league play for the 59th time in 65 seasons.
• Carolina's 38-point win at Wake Forest was its largest margin ever in an ACC road game, the largest in series history and the largest by a visiting team at the LJVM Coliseum. It also was UNC's 20th win of the season, the 29th 20-win season in Roy Williams' career, which ties him with Bob Knight for fourth all-time.
• February 20 is the latest in the calendar for the first scheduled Carolina-Duke game. The teams played for the first time in the 2013-14 season on February 20, but that game was originally scheduled for Feb. 12 and was postponed eight days due to a winter storm.
• Carolina has 13 wins over AP No. 1-ranked teams, most all-time. Seven of those 13 wins have come against Duke. Roy Williams has four wins over No. 1 (2004 vs. Connecticut, 2005 vs. Illinois in the national championship game, 2006 at Duke and 2013 at Michigan State).
• Carolina is 6-0 on the road in ACC play this season, its best start on the road since going 8-0 in 2008.
• Williams is second all-time in ACC road winning percentage (.644) and third all-time in ACC road wins (85).

UNC-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 137-111.
• The Tar Heels have played 248 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• Carolina is 47-54 at Duke, including 36-45 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Carolina and Duke are playing for the 249th time overall and the 12th consecutive game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• This is the 149th consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 83rd game in which both schools are ranked in the AP poll. UNC is 40-42 in those games.
• This is the 30th time in 34 games in the Williams-Krzyzewski era that both teams are ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 45th game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 10. Both teams have 22 wins in the previous 44 top-10 matchups.
• Carolina is 7-10 against Duke when the Blue Devils are ranked No. 1 in the AP poll. Three of UNC's seven wins have come at Cameron Indoor Stadium, including the last time the teams played, when the Blue Devils were No. 1 on 3/4/2006. Tyler Hansbrough led UNC to the first of his four wins at Cameron with a game-high 27 points and 10 rebounds.

UNC WINS OVER NO. 1 DUKE (AP)
~Jan. 12, 1980 – No. 15 UNC 82, No. 1 Duke 67
~Jan. 18, 1989 – No. 13 UNC 91, No. 1 Duke 71
Feb. 5, 1992 – No. 9 UNC 75, No. 1 Duke 73
Feb. 3, 1994 – No. 2 UNC, 89, No. 1 Duke 78
Feb. 5, 1998 – No. 2 UNC 97, No. 1 Duke 73
March 8, 1998 – No. 4 UNC 83, No. 1 Duke 68
~March 4, 2006 – No. 13 UNC 83, No. 1 Duke 76
~ at Cameron Indoor Stadium

• Head coach Roy Williams is 14-19 against Duke as Carolina's head coach.
• Carolina is 44-46 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 38 of the ACC's 64 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 20 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 31 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 38 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 37 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.
• Luke Maye made his first career as a sophomore at Duke (in place of injured senior Isaiah Hicks). He scored eight points in 20 minutes; he also scored eight points off the bench in the 90-83 Tar Heel win later in 2017.
• Last season, Maye averaged 15.0 points and 8.3 rebounds in the three games against Duke (15 and eight rebounds in the home win, 13 points at Duke and 17 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and two steals in the ACC semifinal win).
• Cameron Johnson has played two previous games at Cameron. He had three points (1 for 3 3FG), six rebounds, two assists and three steals as a Pitt Panther in 2017; last year as a Tar Heel he was 4 for 12 from three and scored 16 points.
• Johnson averaged 14.7 points in three games against the Blue Devils in 2017-18 (had 18 points and a career-high 13 rebounds at home, 16 points at Duke and 10 in the ACC semifinal).
• Kenny Williams scored in double figures in all three games against Duke last year. He made a career-high-tying six threes and had 20 points in the home win, scored 13 and had eight rebounds and four assists at Duke and scored 10 points with a then-career-high six assists in the ACC Tournament.
• Williams' six 3FGs tied the UNC record against Duke (Hubert Davis also made six in 1992).
• Garrison Brooks had 10 points against Duke in Brooklyn.

LAST YEAR VS. DUKE
• Carolina won two out of three games against Duke in 2017-18, winning at home (82-78) and in Brooklyn in the ACC Tournament semifinals (74-69) and losing at Duke (64-74).
• It was the second straight year the teams played in the ACC Tournament.
• It was the third time UNC beat Duke twice in the same season under Roy Williams (2007, 2009 and 2018).

FEB. 8, 2018, IN CHAPEL HILL
UNC 82, DUKE 78
• Carolina overcame a 12-point deficit in the first half with a 27-8 run and held on for an 82-78 win over No. 9 Duke.
• Joel Berry II led all scorers with 21 points and had six assists and no turnovers.
• Kenny Williams and Cameron Johnson combined for 38 points and 10 three-pointers.
• Williams tied his career high with 20 points, tied his career high with six three-pointers (both at Stanford on 11/20/17) and tied the UNC record for 3FGs against Duke (with Hubert Davis in 1992).
• Johnson had 18 points, made four three-pointers and grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds.
• Carolina tied a school record with only two turnovers (also against Fairfield on 3/13/1997 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament).
• Carolina attempted 33 three-pointers, to that point the most ever under Roy Williams.

MARCH 3, 2018, IN DURHAM
DUKE 74, UNC 64
• Carolina led by 13 points in the second half (42-29 with 17 minutes to play). It was UNC's largest lead in a loss last season.
• Duke scored 25 points on 44 possessions in the first half. The Blue Devils' points per possession of .57 was the lowest by an opponent in any half last season. In the second half, Duke shot 60 percent and scored 49 points on 42 possessions (1.17).
• Duke was 9 for 20 from the free throw line, while the Tar Heels attempted five free throws (made four).
• Duke's 16 offensive rebounds were the most in a UNC loss all season.
• Cameron Johnson led UNC with 16 points.

MARCH 9, 2018, IN BROOKLYN
UNC 74, DUKE 69
• The win was Carolina's first over Duke in the ACC Tournament in seven games since the 1998 finals.
• Luke Maye led UNC with 17 points and 10 rebounds (six offensive).
• Theo Pinson had eight assists and iced the win with a pair of free throws with three seconds to play.
• Joel Berry II scored 13 points, had six assists and three steals, and made only one turnover in 37 minutes.
• Carolina out-scored the Blue Devils, 16-0, in bench points, including 10 by Garrison Brooks.
• Kenny Williams had a then-career-high six assists.
• Carolina had 24 assists on 28 field goals.
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures; four Blue Devils scored at all.
• Carolina led 72-56 after a Maye field goal with 5:33 to play. The Tar Heels did not make another field goal. Duke closed to within 72-69, before Pinson's free throws with three seconds to play.

ROY'S REMARKABLE ROAD SUCCESS
• Carolina is 6-0 on the road in ACC games this season. UNC is assured of 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 (6-0).
• Williams and Carolina have accounted for 12 of the ACC's 46 winning road records in conference play in the last 16 seasons.

WINNING ACC ROAD RECORDS
2003-04 to current
12 North Carolina (Roy Williams)
11 Duke
5 Virginia
3 Florida State
3 Miami
3 NC State
2 Notre Dame
1 Boston College, Louisville, Maryland, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

• Williams is third all-time with 85 ACC road wins behind only Krzyzewski (182) and Smith (133).
• Williams is second in ACC history in road winning percentage in ACC play at 64.4 percent (85-47).
ACC Road Winning Percentage, All-Time
Vic Bubas, Duke .667 (46-23)
Roy Williams, UNC .644 (85-47)
Frank McGuire, UNC/South Carolina .618 (55-34)
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke .613 (182-115)
Dean Smith, UNC .591 (133-92)
through 2/17/19

MISCELLANEOUS
• Coby White leads the Tar Heels in scoring in conference play at 17.7 per game. He is second in all games and is tied with Harrison Barnes with the fifth-highest scoring average by a freshman in UNC history.
Highest Scoring Average, UNC FRESHMAN
18.9 – Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
17.0 – Rashad McCants, 2002-03
16.7 – Joseph Forte, 1999-2000
16.4 – Phil Ford, 1974-75
15.7 – Coby White
15.7 – Harrison Barnes, 2010-11

• White is second on the team with 57 three-pointers. That is already the fifth most by a UNC freshman in a season and the most since Harrison Barnes (67) in 2010-11.
MOST 3FGs, UNC FRESHMAN
72 – Rashad McCants, 2002-03
69 – Raymond Felton, 2002-03
67 – Harrison Barnes, 2010-11
66 – Wayne Ellington, 2006-07
57 – Coby White
56 – Joseph Forte, 1999-2000

• White scored 33 points against Miami on 2/9. He scored 33 against Texas in November, making him 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).
• Carolina has won 20 games this season, the 15th consecutive seasons the Tar Heels have won at least 20 games under Roy Williams. This is Carolina's 61st 20-win season.
• Luke Maye's 31-point/12-rebound performance against NC State was his fourth career 30/10 game, which ties him for the sixth-most by a Tar Heel.

30-POINT/10-REBOUND GAMES BY A TAR HEEL
21 – Lennie Rosenbluth, 1954-57
19 – Billy Cunningham, 1962-65
5 – Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
5 – Mitch Kupchak, 1973-76
5 – Charlie Scott, 1967-70
4 – Luke Maye, 2015-
4 – Larry Miller, 1965-68
3 – Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-09
3 – Sam Perkins, 1980-84

• 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 (85) than 12 of the league's other 14 head coaches have home ACC victories.
• Carolina is 8-1 on the road this year. UNC is the only team in the ACC with eight road wins.
Eight of the 15 teams in the ACC have three or fewer road wins this season.
• Carolina has won three ACC road games by 20 or more points for the second time in school history. UNC has won by 25 at Pitt, 23 at Georgia Tech and 38 at Wake Forest; in 2005, UNC won at Virginia Tech and Virginia by 34 and at Florida State by 21.
• Carolina is averaging 87.5 points, which is on pace for the fourth-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
88.0 in 2004-05
87.5 in 2018-19
85.7 in 2006-07

• Carolina leads the ACC and is fourth nationally in rebound margin at plus 9.4 per game. UNC 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 19.6 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 had 21 assists at Wake Forest and is 13-0 when it has 20 or more assists. The Tar Heels have averaged 21.7 assists in the last seven games (26-25-21-16-26-17-21).
• 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 tied its season high with 16 three-pointers at Wake Forest. The Tar Heels are making a school-record 9.1 threes 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 made 16 of 25 threes at Wake Forest. The 16 threes equaled the second most in school history, one shy of the school record. It was the fourth time a Roy Williams team made 16 in a game and the percentage of .640 was the best ever in a UNC road game and tied the third highest in any game.
Highest Three-Point Percentage
(20 or More Attempts)
.727 vs. Western Carolina, 12/6/2017 (16 of 22)
.680 vs. Florida State, 1/25/1995 (17 of 25)
.640 at Wake Forest, 2/16/2019 (16 of 25)
.640 vs. Maryland, 2/3/2009 (16 of 25)

• Carolina was 3 for 11 from the free throw line at Wake Forest, the second-lowest percentage (.273) in school history.
• The win at Wake Forest was the fifth time this season the Tar Heels made 13 or more three-pointers (13 vs. Gonzaga, 16 vs. Virginia Tech, 13 at Georgia Tech, 13 vs. Miami and 16 at Wake Forest). UNC made 13 or more 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 fourth in the nation in three-point percentage at .479. 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)
.479 by Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (67 of 140)
.472 by Ty Lawson, 2008-09 (51 of 108)
.464 by Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (78 of 168)

• Johnson has the sixth-highest career percentage by a Tar Heel at 41.0 percent (among players with at least 100 made threes).
Three-Point Percentage, UNC Career
.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)
.410 – Cameron Johnson, 2017- (113)
.403 – Shammond Williams, 1994-98 (233)
.403 – Ty Lawson, 2006-09 (112)

• Johnson is averaging 2.68 three-pointers per game, which is the second-most in UNC single-season history.
Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97 (95 in 35 games)
2.68 – Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (67 in 25 games)
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

• Johnson is currently one of three Tar Heels to make 50 threes in a season and shoot at least 50% from the floor, 45% from three and 75% from the free throw line.
UNC, SINGLE-SEASON
50% FG, 45% 3FG, 75% FT
Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (.517/.479/.789)
Hubert Davis, 1990-91 (.521/.489/.835)
Jeff Lebo, 1986-87 (.532/.450/.849)

• The Tar Heels have scored 684 of their 2,187 points from three-point range, which amounts to the largest percentage (.313) in the Roy Williams Era.
SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs
(UNC in the Roy Williams Era)
31.3 percent – 2018-19
30.3 percent – 2017-18
29.3 percent – 2012-13
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05

• Garrison Brooks leads the team with seven defensive player of the game awards (and has 15 in two seasons). Coby White is second with six. White has a team-high four in ACC play.
• Carolina is seventh nationally 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 current AP top 20, including five of the top 10 teams (No. 1 Duke, No. 2 Gonzaga, No. 3 Virginia, No. 4 Kentucky, No. 7 Michigan, No. 16 Florida State, No. 18 Louisville and No. 20 Virginia Tech).
• Carolina has six ACC games remaining in the regular season. UNC's six opponents have combined for 47 league wins this year, tied with Syracuse for the highest current ACC win total by their future opponents.
2018-19 ACC WINS
BY REMAINING OPPONENTS
47 – North Carolina (six games to play)
47 – Syracuse (6)
42 – Duke (6)
42 – Boston College (6)
41 – Virginia (6)
39 – Wake Forest (6)
35 – Virginia Tech (5)
35 – Florida State (6)
35 – Notre Dame (6)
35 – Louisville (5)
35 – Clemson (6)
27 – Miami (5)
25 – Georgia Tech (5)
24 – Pittsburgh (5)
21 – NC State (5)
as of 2/18/19

• 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).
• Carolina has played six games this season in which it had a points per possession greater than 1.0 in both halves; the Tar Heels are 6-0 in those games (Elon, Tennessee Tech, Saint Francis, Virginia Tech, home vs. NC State and Wake Forest).
• Michigan and Virginia are the only opponents to have a points per possession greater than 1.0 in both halves; UNC lost both of those games.

AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 8 in the current AP poll.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 912th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• This is Carolina's fourth consecutive week in the top 10 and third straight week ranked No. 8.
• It is the 96th 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 2,252 games, third most in NCAA history.
• Carolina came into the season having won an average of 20.7 games per season and has 20 wins this season. UNC is the only school in the top 10 in all-time NCAA wins that has averaged at least 20 wins per season.

KEARNS ENDOWS POINT GUARD POSITION
• Tommy Kearns, point guard on the undefeated 1957 NCAA champion Tar Heels, has endowed the position at UNC, the first of its kind at Carolina Basketball.
• Kearns is endowing the point guard position with his wife, Jane, daughter and two sons.
• Freshman point guard Coby White is the first recipient of the Kearns Scholarship.
• Kearns was recognized at halftime of the UNC-Virginia game on 2/11/19.
• "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."

BOBBY JONES A NAISMITH HOF FINALIST
• Charlotte native, Tar Heel All-America forward, U.S.Olympian and NBA defensive stalwart Bobby Jones is one of 13 finalists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Jones played at Carolina from 1971-74, earning USBWA first-team All-America honors as a senior.
• Earned eight consecutive All-Defensive team honors in the NBA and won the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year in 1983.
• Teamed with Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Mo Cheeks and Andrew Toney to win the NBA title (under head coach Billy Cunningham, a fellow Tar Heel and a Naismith Hall of Famer) with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983.
• If elected, Jones would be the 11th Tar Heel enshrined in Springfield, Mass. Charlie Scott was inducted in 2018. Others include: Ben Carnevale (inducted in 1970), Frank McGuire (1977), Dean Smith (1983), Billy Cunningham (1986), Bob McAdoo (2000), Larry Brown (2002), James Worthy (2003), Roy Williams (2007) and Michael Jordan (2009).

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Garrison Brooks

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Coby White

Kenny Williams