Tar Heels Head To Clemson For Saturday Evening Tilt

GAME 28 NOTEBOOK
• North Carolina will visit Clemson on Saturday evening at 6 p.m. in Littlejohn Coliseum. ESPN will televise the game nationally.
• Carolina's win over Syracuse assured the Tar Heels of a top-three finish in the ACC for the 57th time in 65 seasons and a double bye in the 2019 ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
• Double byes began in the 2014 ACC Tournament. Teams that have earned a double bye include: Virginia (5), North Carolina (4), Duke (3), Notre Dame (3), Louisville (2), Miami (2), Clemson (1), Florida State (1) and Syracuse (1).
• Carolina went 7-1 in February, which equaled the second-best February in the Roy Williams Era (8-0 in 2013-14; 7-1 in 2004-05, 2005-06, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2018-19). Carolina is 90-32 (.738) in February under Williams. His UNC teams are 94-31 in March/April (.752).
• 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 11 of their last 12 ACC games, their best stretch in conference play since 2013-14, when they won 13 of 14 games.
• Roy Williams is one of 15 finalists for the Naismith National Coach of the Year award.
• Cameron Johnson is the first Tar Heel to lead the team in three-pointers and average 5.0 or more rebounds since current L.A. Laker Reggie Bullock in 2012 (71 3FGs, 5.1 rebounds).
• Luke Maye is one three-pointer shy of 100 for his career. He will become the 29th Tar Heel to make 100 three-pointers.
• Carolina is No. 8 in the NCAA's NET rankings and is 7-5 in Q1 games. 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, Houston 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.
• UNC has 13 ACC wins, the 9th time in 16 seasons Roy Williams has led UNC to 13 or more regular-season ACC wins. The rest of the ACC has won 13 or more games 21 times in that span (Duke 10; Virginia 5; Miami 2; Maryland, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Wake Forest 1 each).

UNC-CLEMSON SERIES
• Carolina leads the series, 132-21. The 132 wins are the fourth most by UNC against any opponent behind Wake Forest, NC State and Duke.
• Clemson won the most recent game (82-78 at Clemson on 1/30/18), which broke a 10-game Tar Heel win streak against the Tigers.
• Carolina has won 10 of 11 and 20 of 22 in the series.
• Carolina is 39-17 at Clemson, including 28-14 at Littlejohn Coliseum.
• UNC has won four of the previous five games at Littlejohn.
• Roy Williams is 20-3 against Clemson, all as UNC's head coach.

LAST YEAR: AT CLEMSON
JAN. 30, 2018: CLEMSON 82, UNC 78
• Carolina rallied from a 16-point deficit to tie the game at 74 with 2:05 to play, but the Tigers scored the next five points and held off the Tar Heels, 82-78.
• Clemson snapped a 10-game losing streak to UNC. The Tar Heels had won the previous four times in Littlejohn Coliseum.
• It was the second game in a row UNC's opponent made 15 threes. The 30 three-pointers by NC State and Clemson were the most threes by opponents in consecutive games in UNC history.
• Clemson's first seven field goals were three-pointers as the Tigers built a 21-9 lead.
• Cameron Johnson scored a career-high 32 points and Joel Berry II scored 27 for the Tar Heels. The duo combined for nine of UNC's 10 three-pointers for the game and scored 39 of Carolina's 50 second-half points.
• Johnson and Berry scored UNC's last 29 points over the final 9:37 and 34 of the last 35 points over the final 12:53.
• Johnson tied his career high with six three-pointers.
• The Tigers shot 50 percent from three and 29 percent from inside the arc (9 of 31).
• Senior guard Theo Pinson strained his left shoulder as he was fouled while going for an offensive rebound 90 seconds into the game. He left the game and was unable to return.
• Carolina shot 29.4 percent (10 of 34) from the floor in the first half and 64.3 percent (18 of 28) in the second half.
• Clemson scored 22 second-chance points, which tied NC State for the most scored against UNC all season.

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.

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).

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 (inc. 2018-19)
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 .612 (183-116)
Dean Smith, UNC .591 (133-92)

NCAA REBOUNDS PER GAME
42.9 – North Carolina
41.8 – Bowling Green
41.7 – Duke
41.6 – Michigan State
41.3 – Houston

NCAA REBOUND MARGIN
11.7 – ETSU
9.9 – North Carolina
9.7 – Kentucky
9.1 – Maryland
9.1 – Utah State

NCAA POINTS PER GAME
90.7 – Gonzaga
87.6 – Belmont
87.3 – North Carolina
85.5 – The Citadel
85.4 – Buffalo

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

• Coby White is second on the team in scoring (15.9) and has the fifth-highest scoring average by a freshman in UNC history. He is one of 10 Tar Heels (and the only freshman) to score 33 or more points at least three times in a season.

GAMES WITH 33 OR MORE POINTS, SEASON
10 – Bobby Lewis, 1965-66 (junior)
8 – Lennie Rosenbluth, 1956-57 (senior)
6 – Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 (senior)
6 – Lennie Rosenbluth, 1955-56 (junior)
5 – Charlie Scott, 1969-70 (senior)
4 – Billy Cunningham, 1963-64 (junior)
4 – Charlie Scott, 1968-69 (junior)
3 – Coby White (freshman)
3 – Antawn Jamison, 1997-98 (junior)
3 – Joseph Forte, 2001-01 (sophomore)

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
15.9 – Coby White
15.7 – Harrison Barnes, 2010-11

• White is second on the team with 64 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
64 – Coby White
56 – Joseph Forte, 1999-2000

• White also has the sixth-highest free throw percentage by a UNC freshman; it is the highest since Marcus Paige in 2013.
• Luke Maye's 30-point/15-rebound performance at 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 won 23 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.
• Carolina is 13-2 in the ACC.This is the 15th time (ninth time under Williams) UNC has won 13 or more regular-season ACC games 15 times; a win at Clemson would mark the 11th time overall for UNC and seventh time under Williams with 14 regular-season ACC wins.
• UNC has won 13 regular-season ACC games in 1998, 2001, 2009, 2014 and 2019 and 14 in 1957, 1984, 1987, 1993, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017. UNC has never won 15 in a season.
• 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 633 games over .500 in 31 seasons as a college head coach, including 316 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 and Virginia are the only teams in the ACC with nine road wins. Duke is next with seven. UNC has more road wins this year than six 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 87.3 points, which is third in the nation, 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
87.3 in 2018-19
85.7 in 2006-07

• Carolina out-rebounded Syracuse, 46-25. The Tar Heels lead the ACC and are second nationally in rebound margin at plus 9.9 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.
• Carolina leads the nation with 42.9 rebounds per game. UNC also led the nation in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents 24 times in 28 games and is 21-3 when out-rebounding its opponent.
• Carolina has 40 or more rebounds 17 times, including each of the last three games (46 at Duke, 47 vs. Florida State and 46 vs. Syracuse). UNC is 15-2 in those games.
• 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 eighth nationally in three-point percentage at .468. 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)
.468 by Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (72 of 154)
.464 by Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (78 of 168)

• Johnson has the sixth-highest career percentage by a Tar Heel at .408 (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)
.408 – Cameron Johnson, 2017- (119)
.403 – Shammond Williams, 1994-98 (233)
.403 – Ty Lawson, 2006-09 (112)

• Johnson is averaging 2.57 three-pointers per game, which is the sixth-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 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92
2.57 – Cameron Johnson, 2018-19 (70 in 27 games)

• The Tar Heels have scored 738 of their 2,445 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 leads the team with nine defensive player of the game awards (and has 16 in two seasons). Coby White is second with six. Brooks (5) and White (4) have won the award in nine of UNC's 15 ACC games.
• 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 fifth in KenPom's overall rankings and have played three of the four 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 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 2,255 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.

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