Syracuse To Visit Smith Center Tuesday Night

GAME 27 NOTEBOOK
• North Carolina will host Syracuse on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. in the Smith Center. Raycom will televise the game reginoally.
• Carolina is No. 5 in the AP poll, the Tar Heels' highest ranking this season. Carolina was ranked as high as No. 5 one time last season (week seven) and in the final poll heading into the 2017 NCAA Tournament.
• The Tar Heels have won 10 of their last 11 ACC games, their best stretch in conference play since 2013-14, when UNC won 13 of 14 games.
• Senior forward Luke Maye scored 45 points in Carolina's wins over Duke and Florida State last week. In those two games, Maye passed James Worthy, Harrison Barnes, Joe Wolf, James Michael McAdoo, Ademola Okulaja, Raymond Felton and Ed Cota and tied Bobby Jones with 1,264 career points. Jones and Maye are tied for 50th place in UNC career scoring. Vince Carter is 49th with 1,267.
• Maye earned ACC Player of the Week honors for his play against Duke and Florida State, his second of the season and fifth career. He is one of eight Tar Heels to win ACC Player of the Week honors at least five times (12 by Antawn Jamison; 10 by Tyler Hansbrough; 6 by Phil Ford; 5 by Maye, Joel Berry II, Marcus Paige, Michael Jordan and Mike O'Koren)
• Carolina is No. 8 in the NCAA's NET rankings, which credits teams for Quadrant I wins at home over top-30 opponents, neutral site wins over top 50 and road wins at top-75 teams. Carolina is 7-5 in Q1 games (wins over No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 3 Duke, No. 12 Virginia Tech, No. 19 Wofford, No. 22 Louisville and No. 32 NC State).
• Carolina's five losses are all to Quadrant 1 teams. The NCAA rates Carolina's strength of schedule as the fifth-hardest in the country.
• Carolina and Virginia are the only teams in the Atlantic Coast, American, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 or Southeastern Conferences with nine road wins.
• Duke and Florida State (Carolina's last two opponents) combined to attempt 70 three-point shots and 61 two-pointers. The Tar Heels have held their last three opponents (Wake Forest, Duke and FSU) to 62.7 points and a combined 32.8 percent from the floor, including 22 of 93 from three-point range (.237).

UNC-SYRACUSE SERIES
• Carolina is 11-4 all-time against Syracuse, including 7-1 since the Orange joined the ACC. The Tar Heels have won the last seven meetings, including both games in 2017-18.
• Carolina won 78-74 at the Carrier Dome and 78-59 in the ACC Tournament second round in Brooklyn.
• Carolina is 3-0 in Chapel Hill (all played in the Smith Center).
• UNC won, 85-68, on 1/16/17 in the previous game in the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have held the Orange under 75 points in each of the last six games.
• Roy Williams is 8-4 overall (7-2 as UNC's head coach).

LAST YEAR: UNC vs. SYRACUSE
FEB. 21 AT SYRACUSE: UNC 78, SU 74
• Theo Pinson led UNC with a career-high 23 points and Joel Berry II broke a 74-all tie with a steal and coast-to-coast layup.
• Kenny Williams grabbed a career-high tying eight rebounds. It was the first time in his career Williams led UNC in rebounds.
• Freshman Sterling Manley scored 12 points, his ACC season and career high.
• Carolina had 25 assists on 29 field goals.

MARCH 7 IN BROOKLYN: UNC 78, SU 59
• Pinson had 16 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and two steals.
• Carolina shot 52.2 percent from the floor in the second half.
• Syracuse scored 59 points (fewest against UNC all season), shot 31.7 percent from the floor (lowest vs. UNC all season) and had six assists (also a season low vs. UNC).
• Williams led UNC with 17 points and helped limit All-ACC guard Tyus Battle to 4 of 21 shooting from the floor for the game and one field goal in the second half.
• Carolina had a 13-2 advantage in points off turnovers and 15-0 in fastbreak points.

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 47 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
2 Virginia Tech
1 Boston College, Louisville, Maryland, Pitt, Syracuse, Wake Forest

• Williams is third all-time with 86 ACC road wins behind Krzyzewski (183) 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 .647 (86-47)
Frank McGuire, UNC/South Carolina .618 (55-34)
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke .614 (183-115)
Dean Smith, UNC .591 (133-92)

MISCELLANEOUS
NCAA REBOUNDS PER GAME
42.8 – North Carolina
42.2 – Duke
42.0 – Bowling Green
41.6 – Michigan State
41.6 – Houston

NCAA REBOUND MARGIN
11.7 – ETSU
9.6 – Kentucky
9.5 – North Carolina
9.4 – Maryland
9.0 – Utah State

NCAA POINTS PER GAME
90.7 – Gonzaga
87.6 – Belmont
87.1 – North Carolina
85.7 – Buffalo
85.5 – Duke
85.5 – The Citadel

NCAA ASSISTS PER GAME
19.7 – Belmont
19.4 – Michigan State
19.4 – North Carolina
19.0 – Tennessee
18.6 – Gonzaga

• Coby White is second on the team in scoring (15.2) 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
15.2 – 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 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 22 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 632 games over .500 in 31 seasons as a college head coach, including 315 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 87.1 points, which is third 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
87.1 in 2018-19
85.7 in 2006-07

• Carolina leads the ACC and is third nationally in rebound margin at plus 9.5 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 19.4 assists per game, third 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 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 leads the ACC and is sixth nationally in three-point percentage at .473. 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)
.473 by Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (70 of 147)
.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 40.9 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)
.409 – Cameron Johnson, 2017- (117)
.403 – Shammond Williams, 1994-98 (233)
.403 – Ty Lawson, 2006-09 (112)

• Johnson is averaging 2.59 three-pointers per game, which is the fourth-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
2.59 – Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (70 in 27 games)
2.58 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92

• Johnson is currently one of three Tar Heels to ever 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 (.522/.473/.788)
Hubert Davis, 1990-91 (.521/.489/.835)
Jeff Lebo, 1986-87 (.532/.450/.849)

• Johnson has made 117 three-pointers and 117 free throws in his 53 games as a Tar Heel. He also has made 153 two-point field goals.
• The Tar Heels have scored 711 of their 2,352 points from three-point range, the second-largest percentage (.302) in the Roy Williams Era. It's just .001 behind 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 – 2017-18
30.2 percent – 2018-19
29.3 percent – 2012-13
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05

• Garrison Brooks was Carolina's defensive player of the game in the 77-59 win over Florida State. The Tar Heels held the Seminoles to almost 19 points below their season scoring average and limited FSU to 18 field goals and a season-low 30.5 percent shooting from the floor.
• Brooks leads the team with eight defensive player of the game awards (and has 15 in two seasons). Coby White is second with six. Brooks and White share the team-lead in ACC play with four apiece.
• Carolina is seventh nationally in offensive efficiency and 10th 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 five schools (with Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State and Virginia) in the top 10 in the country in both offensive and defensive efficiency; the Tar Heels have the highest-rated strength of schedule among those five teams.
• Carolina is sixth in KenPom's overall rankings and have played four of the five teams ranked ahead of them.
• Eight of this season's opponents are in the current AP top 20, including five of the top 10 teams (No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 2 Virginia, No. 3 Duke, No. 4 Kentucky, No. 9 Michigan, No. 18 Florida State, No. 20 Virginia Tech and No. 24 Wofford). Louisville, NC State and UCLA were also ranked in the top 25 when the Tar heels played against them.
• 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. 5 in the current (2/25) AP poll.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 913th time, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• This is Carolina's fifth consecutive week in the top 10.
• No. 5 is UNC's highest ranking so far this season. UNC was as high as fifth in week seven in the 2017-18 season and entered the 2016-17 NCAA Tournament ranked fifth.
• This is the 97th 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 7-3 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, No. 1 Duke and No. 16 Florida State.
• UNC has lost to No. 7 Michigan, No. 19 Kentucky and No. 4 Virginia.
• Carolina is 337-256 all-time against AP-ranked opponents.
• Carolina has seven wins over ranked teams in the regular season for the first time since 2007.

NUMBER ONE IN WINS PER SEASON
• This is the 109th season of Carolina Basketball. The Tar Heels have won 2,254 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

Sterling Manley

Luke Maye

Theo Pinson

Coby White

Kenny Williams