Tar Heels Welcome FSU Saturday Afternoon

GAME 27 NOTEBOOK
• Eighth-ranked North Carolina will look to stay tied atop the Atlantic Coast Conference standings when it hosts 16th-ranked Florida State on Saturday at 3:45 PM in the Smith Center. CBS will televise the game live.
• This is the 10th game this season the Tar Heels are playing a team ranked in the top 19 in the AP poll (Florida State is 16th). Carolina is 6-3 against ranked teams so far with wins in four of its last five.
• Carolina leads the ACC in points (87.5), rebounds (42.7) and assists (19.7) per game and rebound margin (+9.3 per game).
• Luke Maye is 18th in UNC career rebounds with 821. He passed Jason Capel, Mike O'Koren and Bobby Jones when he grabbed 15 at Duke. Larry Miller is 17th with 839.
• The Duke game was the ninth time in Maye's career he had 15 or more rebounds. The first time he did that was as a sophomore in 2017, when he had 15 off the bench in a home win against Florida State.
• Maye, named to CoSIDA's Academic All-District 8 team this week, became the second player in college basketball history to have 30 points and 15 rebounds against a top-ranked team; Elvin Hayes of Houston (against UCLA in 1968) is the other. Maye also became the first Tar Heel ever to score 30 points at both Duke and NC State.
• Cameron Johnson has made 230 career three-pointers – 116 in three seasons at Pitt and 114 in 52 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).
• Johnson scored 27 at Wake Forest and 26 at Duke in the last two games. He is the first Tar Heel to score 25 or more in consecutive games since Brice Johnson against Tulane and UCLA in 2015-16; Tyler Hansbrough is the last to accomplish that in three straight (in 2008).
• Carolina is 4-0 against in-state ACC teams this season and has not trailed in any of the four games against Duke, Wake Forest and NC State (twice).
• Carolina's 88-72 win at Duke was the highest-watched ESPN weeknight game in college basketball history, the highest rated college basketball game this season and No. 5 all-time at ESPN.

UNC-FLORIDA STATE SERIES
• Carolina leads 49-13, including 19-6 in the last 15 years under Roy Williams.
• Florida State won the only matchup last year (81-80 in Tallahassee), but the Tar Heels have won seven of the last eight.
• Carolina is 39-12 since FSU joined the ACC prior to the 1991-92 season.
• The Tar Heels are 20-4 at home – 17-4 in the Smith Center.
• This is the third straight game and the 12th overall both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• Carolina is 6-5 when both teams are ranked.
• Four of the five UNC losses when both teams are ranked have been by four points or fewer.
• Carolina assistant coach Steve Robinson was head coach of the Seminoles for five years (1997-2002).

LAST YEAR VS. THE SEMINOLES
• Carolina rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to take the lead, but suffered its first loss in four games in Tallahassee.
• Joel Berry II led UNC with 28 points, but missed a 10-footer in the lane with just under five seconds to play that could have given Carolina the lead.
• Florida State shot 54.5 percent from the floor in the first half to build a 51-40 lead.
• The Tar Heels were out-scored 14-7 from the free throw line.
• Both teams made 11 of 29 three-pointers. Florida State made nine of its 11 threes in the first half.
• Kenny Williams scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half. Williams made 4 of 5 from three-point range in the first half, but was 0 for 6 from distance in the second.
• Carolina out-scored the Seminoles, 24-12, in points off turnovers. Fourteen of UNC's 40 second-half points followed FSU turnovers.

BEATING NO. 1
• Carolina's 88-72 win at Duke was the 14th time UNC has knocked off the No. 1 team in the nation in the AP poll. That is more wins over No. 1 than any other school in college basketball history. Only three schools have won 10 or more – UNC, UCLA (12) and Maryland (10).
• Eight of UNC's 14 wins have come against Duke, including four in Cameron Indoor Stadium, three in the Smith Center and one in the Greensboro Coliseum.
• The win at Duke was the eighth by Roy Williams over AP No. 1, the most of any coach in college basketball history. Gary Williams is second with seven. Dean Smith, Digger Phelps and Mike Krzyzewski have six. Syracuse's Jim Boeheim has five and plays No. 1 Duke Saturday.

MOST WINS OVER AP NO. 1 TEAMS
14 – North Carolina
12 – UCLA
10 – Maryland
9 – Duke
9 – Ohio State
8 – Georgia Tech
8 – Kansas
8 – Kentucky
8 – Notre Dame
8 – Vanderbilt

ROY'S REMARKABLE ROAD SUCCESS
• Carolina is 7-0 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 (7-0).
• This is the fourth time Williams has led UNC to at least seven ACC road wins (2006, 2008, 2012 and 2019).
• 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) (incl. 2018-19)
11 Duke (incl. 2018-19)
5 Virginia (incl. 2018-19)
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 86 ACC road wins behind Krzyzewski (182) and Smith (133).
• Williams has the highest road winning percentage in ACC games among coaches with at least 100 opportunities and the second highest among all coaches at 64.7 percent (86-47).

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)

MISCELLANEOUS
• Coby White leads the Tar Heels in scoring in conference play at 17.0 per game. He is second in all games (15.4) and has the sixth-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 – Harrison Barnes, 2010-11
15.4 – Coby White

• White is second on the team with 58 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
58 – Coby White
56 – Joseph Forte, 1999-2000

• White also has the seventh-highest free throw percentage by a UNC freshman; it is the highest since Marcus Paige in 2013.
Highest Free Throw Pct., UNC FRESHMAN
(min. 50 FTs)
.854 – Jason Capel, 1998-99 (76 of 89)
.847 – Marvin Williams, 2004-05 (138 of 163)
.839 – P.J. Hairston, 2011-12 (52 of 62)
.836 – Marcus Paige, 2012-13 (51 of 61)
.836 – Wayne Ellington, 2006-07 (51 of 61)
.810 – Raymond Felton, 2002-03 (85 of 105)
.809 – Coby White (72 of 89)

• 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 21 games this season, the 15th consecutive season the Tar Heels have won at least 20 games under Roy Williams. This is Carolina's 61st 20-win season.
• Luke Maye's 30-point/15-rebound performance Duke was his fifth career 30/10 game, which ties him for the third-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 – Luke Maye, 2015-
5 – Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
5 – Mitch Kupchak, 1973-76
5 – Charlie Scott, 1967-70
4 – Larry Miller, 1965-68
3 – Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-09
3 – Sam Perkins, 1980-84

• Carolina has road wins at No. 1 Duke, No. 15 NC State and No. 15 Louisville (AP). This is the first time since 2006 UNC has won three road games over AP-top 15 teams (No. 10 Kentucky, No. 15 NC State and No. 1 Duke in 2006).
• 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.
• Roy Williams is 631 games over .500 in 31 seasons as a college head coach, including 314 games over .500 in 16 seasons at Carolina.
• Williams has more ACC road wins (86) than 12 of the league's other 14 head coaches have home ACC victories.
• Carolina is 9-1 on the road this year. UNC is the only team in the ACC with nine road wins. Virginia is second with eight and Duke is next with six. UNC has more road wins this year than seven ACC teams have combined.
• 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). The Tar Heels also have won this season by 16 at Duke, nine at Miami and eight at NC State.
• Carolina is averaging 87.5 points, which is second in the nation and 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, 2004-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 third nationally in rebound margin at plus 9.3 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 19.7 assists per game, second in the country, 10th most in UNC history and the most in a season since 1990-91 (20.0 per game).
• Carolina had 21 assists at both Duke and Wake Forest and is 14-0 when it has 20 or more assists. The Tar Heels have averaged 21.6 assists in the last eight games (26-25-21-16-26-17-21-21).
• 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 tied its season high with 16 three-pointers at Wake Forest, then connected on a season-low two threes in 20 attempts in the win at Duke. Despite that, the Tar Heels are making a school-record 8.8 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)

• The Tar Heels have made 13 or more three-pointers five times this season (13 vs. Gonzaga, 16 vs. Virginia Tech, 13 at Georgia Tech, 13 vs. Miami and 16 at Wake Forest). UNC also made 13 or more five times in 2012-13. No other UNC squad has made 13 or more threes five times.
• Cameron Johnson is second in the ACC and eighth nationally in three-point percentage at .465. That is on pace for the fourth-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)
.472 by Ty Lawson, 2008-09 (51 of 108)
.464 by Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (67 of 143)
.464 by Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (78 of 168)

• Johnson has the sixth-highest career percentage by a Tar Heel at 40.4 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)
.404 – Cameron Johnson, 2017- (114)
.403 – Shammond Williams, 1994-98 (233)
.403 – Ty Lawson, 2006-09 (112)

• Johnson is averaging 2.58 three-pointers per game, which ties the fifth-most in UNC single-season history.
Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97 (95 in 35 games)
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (67 in 26 games)
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)

• Johnson has made 114 three-pointers and 114 free throws in his 52 games as a Tar Heel. He also has made 150 two-point field goals.
• The Tar Heels have scored 690 of their 2,275 points from three-point range, which equals the largest percentage (.303) in the Roy Williams Era. It ties last season for the highest percentage of points from behind the arc in the last 16 years.
SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs
(UNC in the Roy Williams Era)
30.3 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 13th 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.
• Carolina is one of four schools (with Duke, Michigan State and Virginia) in the top 13 in the country in both offensive and defensive efficiency; the Tar Heels are the only one of the four whose strength of schedule is in the top 10 (UNC's is No. 9).
• 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).
• 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.

PLAYING AP RANKED TEAMS
• Carolina is 6-3 against teams ranked in the AP poll this season.
• The Tar Heels have wins (in chronological order) over No. 17 UCLA, No. 4 Gonzaga, No. 15 NC State, No. 10 Virginia Tech, No. 15 Louisville and No. 1 Duke.
• UNC has lost to No. 7 Michigan, No. 19 Kentucky and No. 4 Virginia.
• Carolina is 336-256 all-time against AP-ranked opponents.

NUMBER ONE IN WINS PER SEASON
• This is the 109th season of Carolina Basketball. The Tar Heels have won 2,253 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

Coby White

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