Tar Heels Will Host NCSU Tuesday Night

Tuesday, February 5

Chapel Hill

8:00 PM

North Carolina

North Carolina State

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February 4, 2019 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 22 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina plays host to NC State on Tuesday, February 5 at 8 p.m. (Raycom). The Tar Heels have won five in a row and are coming off a 79-69 win at Louisville. NC State has lost two in a row.
• The Tar Heels beat the Wolfpack, 90-82, in Raleigh on January 8. Carolina has won both regular-season games against NC State 11 times in 15 previous seasons under Roy Williams, although the Pack has won two of the last four games in the Smith Center.
• Carolina has swept the home-and-home with NC State under Williams in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017.
• Carolina is 7-1 in ACC play for the second time in three seasons and the seventh time in Williams' 16-year tenure (2005, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019).
• A win over NC State would mark the third time a Williams team has started 8-1 in league play (with 2005 and 2016).
• Cameron Johnson connected three times from behind the arc at Louisville. His third was the 100th three-pointer in his two seasons as a Tar Heel. Johnson has made 100 of 249, a percentage of .402. Among Tar Heels with 100 or more threes, he has the eighth-highest percentage. The complete list is on page 4 of the notes.
• Carolina is 5-0 in ACC road games. This is the second time the Tar Heels have won their first five ACC road games in the Roy Williams Era. They did it in 2007-08, when UNC went 8-0 on the road in league play.
• Carolina has clinched a winning record in ACC road games for the 12th time under Williams. Duke is second in the last 16 years with 10. Virginia is third with four. Nine schools (including Maryland) have one or no winning records in road games in that span. The complete list is on page two of these notes.
• Carolina has made a school-record 53 three-pointers in the last five games (9 vs. Notre Dame and Miami, 16 vs. Virginia Tech, 13 at Georgia Tech and six at Louisville). The previous high for five straight games was 52 three other times.

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 44 winning road records (27.2 percent) in conference play in the last 16 seasons.

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

• Third all-time with 84 ACC road wins behind only Krzyzewski (179) and Smith (133).
• 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 .610 (180-115)
Dean Smith, UNC .591 (133-92)
through 2/3/19

UNC-NC STATE SERIES
• The Tar Heels lead the series, 157-78, winning 29 of the last 33 and 46 of the last 57 games against the Wolfpack.
• Roy Williams is 34-4 as a head coach against NC State, including a 5-0 record at Kansas and a 29-4 mark at Carolina.
• Carolina is 25-7 against NC State in the Smith Center and 76-23 in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina has scored 80 or more points in 10 of its last 11 games vs. NC State.

JAN. 8, 2019 IN RALEIGH
UNC 90, NC STATE 82
• Carolina beat NC State in Raleigh for the sixth straight time.
• Carolina tied its season high with 23 turnovers (wins over Gonzaga and NC State).
• It was the most turnovers in a road win since 2/2/2006 at Maryland when UNC committed 24 in a 77-62 win.
• It was the first time UNC won a road game with 20 or more turnovers since Ty Lawson hit a buzzer-beating three at Florida State on 1/28/2009.
• All five UNC starters scored in double figures for the first time this season.
• NC State came into the game fifth in the country in offensive rebound percentage (.392), but the Tar Heels grabbed 37 defensive rebounds to the Pack's 10 offensive boards (.213).
• Carolina was 22 for 26 from the free throw line.
• Luke Maye (21/11), Cameron Johnson (15/11) and Kenny Williams (15/10) had double-doubles. It was the first time three Tar Heels had double-doubles since the 2012 NCAA Sweet 16 against Ohio (Tyler Zeller, John Henson and Reggie Bullock).
• It was a career-high 10 rebounds for Kenny Williams and his first career double-double.
• Cameron Johnson had a season-high five assists and made 4 of 7 three-pointers.
• Johnson left the game with 12:36 to play due to leg cramps and did not return.
• The game was tied twice – at 47 and 53. Both times, Johnson broke the tie with a three-pointer. He was fouled and converted a four-point play on the first occasion.
• Garrison Brooks had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists. It was the second game in a row he led or tied for the lead in assists, the first two times he has done that as a Tar Heel.

MISCELLANEOUS
• 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 win 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 628 games over .500 in 31 seasons as a college head coach, including 311 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 leads the nation in rebounds per game, is third in assists and rebound margin and fourth in scoring.
• 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.
• Carolina is averaging 87.1 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
87.1 in 2018-19
85.7 in 2006-07

• Carolina has more rebounds in 18 of the first 21 games this season and won 16 of those 18 games. UNC is 1-0 when rebounds are even (UCLA) and 0-2 (Kentucky and 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 19.6 assists per game, 10th most in UNC history and the most in a season since 1990-91 (20.0 per game).
• Carolina is 11-0 this season when it has 20 or more assists. The Tar Heels have averaged 22.0 assists in the last four games.
• 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 is averaging a school-record 8.7 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).
• Cameron Johnson is second in the ACC 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 (53 of 111)
.472 by Ty Lawson, 2008-09 (51 of 108)
.464 by Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (78 of 168)

• Johnson made his 100th three-pointer as a Tar Heel (has 216 combined at Pitt and UNC). He has the eighth-highest career percentage by a Tar Heel at 40.2 percent.
Three-Point Percentage, UNC Career (min. 100 3FGs)
.435 – Hubert Davis, 1988-92 (197)
.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- (100)

• The Tar Heels have scored 546 of their 1,830 points from three-point range, the second-largest percentage in the Roy Williams Era.
SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs
(UNC in the Roy Williams Era)
30.3 percent – 2017-18
29.8 percent – 2018-19
29.3 percent – 2012-13
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05

• Carolina is attempting 34.9 percent of its field goals from three-point range. That is the second-highest percentage in the Roy Williams era. The high was 35.1 percent in 2017-18. Prior to last season, the previous high was 31.7 percent in 2005-06.
• KenPom ranks the Tar Heels third in the nation behind Savannah State and FIU in shortest average length of offensive possessions (13.9 seconds) and sixth in tempo (possessions per game).
• Carolina is 11th in the country in KenPom's offensive efficiency and 13th in defensive efficiency (points per 100 possessions). The Tar Heels' 21 opponents to date have a combined offensive efficiency of No. 9 in the country and a combined defensive efficiency also the ninth-best in the country.
• UNC is one of five teams whose opponents rank in the top 10 in both offensive and defensive efficiency (UNC, Kansas, Illinois, Penn State and Purdue).