Tar Heels Will Face Louisville In ACC Quarterfinal Thursday

GAME 32 NOTEBOOK
• North Carolina will open 2019 ACC Tournament play on Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinal round against seventh-seeded Louisville. The Cardinals beat Notre Dame on Wednesday night to advance to Thursday's quarterfinal against UNC.
• UNC is 26-5 overall and finished 16-2 in the ACC, winning a share of the regular season title.
• It is UNC's 32nd ACC regular-season title, 13 more than any other school. It is the 11th time the Tar Heels have been co-champions in the regular season.
• This is the ninth time in 16 seasons Roy Williams has led UNC to at least a share of the ACC regular-season championship. Under Williams, the Tar Heels have won the regular-season crown in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017 and shared the title in 2007 and 2019.
• This is the fifth time in 16 seasons under Williams the Tar Heels won three regular-season titles in a four-year span (2005-07-08, 2007-08-09, 2008-09-11, 2009-11-12 and 2016-17-19).
• Carolina leads the ACC scoring, rebounding, rebound margin and assists, is second in three-pointers made per game and assist-turnover ratio, and third in offensive rebounds and three-point percentage.
• UNC leads the nation in rebounding, is second in assists and rebound margin and third in scoring. No other team in the nation is in the top 10 in scoring, rebound margin and assists.
• The NCAA ranks UNC's strength of schedule as the fourth-hardest in the country.
• Carolina is 9-5 in the NCAA's Quadrant I games and 16-5 combined in Q1 and Q2 games. The Tar Heels enter ACC Tournament play with the fifth-most Q1 wins and tied for second for the most combined Q1 and Q2 wins with 16 (Michigan has 17, UNC is one of six teams with 16).
• Carolina is one of 10 teams whose losses have all been against Q1 opponents (UNC, Gonzaga, Houston, Michigan, UNCG, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wofford).
• Should Carolina play No. 7 seed Louisville in Thursday's quarterfinal, it would mark just the fourth time the Tar Heels won the ACC regular-season title and played a team in the quarterfinal round that had previously defeated UNC in the regular season (1988 lost to Wake Forest by three, 2001 lost to Clemson by 10, 2017 lost to Miami by 15). The Tar Heels beat all three teams in the quarterfinal round in those respective seasons.

CAROLINA'S ACC TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• Carolina has won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships and played in the championship game a record 35 times.
• The Tar Heels have a 100-46 record in ACC Tournament history. UNC and Duke are tied with 100 wins and have combined to win 38 of the 65 championships.
• Carolina's 45 wins in the quarterfinal round are more than any other school (Duke is second with 42).
• Carolina is 21-7 in the ACC Tournament in Charlotte and has won five ACC Tournaments in Charlotte (1968, 1969, 1991, 1994 and 2008).
• Carolina has earned a double bye for the fourth time in the last six seasons (2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019).
• Carolina won a share of the regular-season championship, but it is the No. 2 seed as a result of losing its only head-to-head matchup against Virginia. The Tar Heels are 24-8 as a No. 2 seed and have won the ACC Tournament five times as a No. 2 seed (1975, 1981, 1991, 1994 and 1998).
• Dean Smith was the first coach to win 13 ACC Tournaments. Smith's teams went 58-23 and played in the championship game 21 times.
• Roy Williams is 25-12 with three titles and eight appearances in the championship game in 15 seasons. Williams has led UNC to the finals eight times against seven different opponents (played Virginia twice).
• The Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed 26 times. Duke is second with 17 No. 1 seeds; NC State is third with six.
• Carolina is one of only two schools that have won three consecutive ACC regular-season titles and ACC Tournament championships. UNC accomplished that feat in 1967-68-69. UNC is the only school that has done that while winning the regular-season title outright.
• Roy Williams is one of eight coaches to win back-to-back ACC Tournament titles (with Everett Case, Bones McKinney, Vic Bubas, Dean Smith, Norm Sloan, Dave Odom and Mike Krzyzewski).
• Williams is one of seven coaches to win the Tournament at least three times.
• A Tar Heel has won the Most Valuable Player award 19 times – Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1967, 1968), Charlie Scott (1969), Lee Dedmon (1971), Robert McAdoo (1972), Phil Ford (1975), John Kuester (1977), Dudley Bradley (1979), Sam Perkins (1981), James Worthy (1982), J.R. Reid (1989), Rick Fox (1991), Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Shammond Williams (1997), Antawn Jamison (1998), Brandan Wright (2007), Tyler Hansbrough (2008) and Joel Berry II (2016).
• Tyler Hansbrough is the only Tar Heel to earn first-team All-Tournament honors three times.

CO-REGULAR-SEASON ACC CHAMPS
• Carolina and Virginia earned a share of the 2019 ACC regular-season title with identical 16-2 records, two games ahead of third-place Duke.
• It is Carolina's 32nd regular-season title. Duke is second with 19 and Virginia is third with nine.
• Roy Williams has won nine regular-season titles. He has led UNC to more regular-season championships than every other school has won in their program's history except Duke and Virginia.

ACC REGULAR-SEASON TITLES
UNC 32
Duke 19
– Roy Williams 9
Virginia 9
NC State 7
Maryland 5
Wake Forest 4
Georgia Tech 2
Clemson 1
Miami 1
South Carolina 1

ACC REGULAR-SEASON TITLES BY COACH
Dean Smith, UNC 17
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 12
Roy Williams, UNC 9
Frank McGuire, UNC & South Carolina 6
Tony Bennett, Virginia 4
Vic Bubas, Duke 4

• Roy Williams has led Kansas (9) and North Carolina (9) to 18 regular-season conference titles in 31 years as head coach. That is tied for the third most in college basketball history.

REGULAR-SEASON CONFERENCE TITLES
Adolph Rupp, Kentucky 28
Phog Allen, Kansas 24
Roy Williams, Kansas & North Carolina 18
Bill Self, Tulsa & Kansas 18
Dean Smith, UNC 17
John Calipari, UMass, Memphis, Kentucky 17
Jerry Tarkanian, Long Beach, UNLV, Fresno State 17

• The Tar Heels have won 14 of the last 15 games vs. ACC opponents, their best stretch in league play since winning 14 of 15 ACC games (including ACC Tournament) in 2010-11. The last time UNC won at least 15 of 16 ACC games was 1986-87, when the Tar Heels won 16 in a row (14-0 in the regular season and two wins in the ACC Tournament). UNC lost in the championship game, then won its first two ACC games in 1987-88 for 18 wins in 19 ACC games.
• Carolina went 11-1 on the road this year. That included a 9-0 ACC record and a 2-1 record in non-conference play. UNC won at Wofford and Elon to open the season, and lost at Michigan on 11/28/18 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
• This was the eighth time UNC has won 10 or more road games in a season (12 in 1924, 11 in 1935, 14 in 1946, 11 in 1976, 11 in 1987, 10 in 1993, 13 in 2007 and 11 in 2019).
• Carolina's 79-70 win over Duke in the regular-season finale was UNC's eighth win over an AP-ranked team this season, most in the regular season since winning 10 in 1997-98.

TAR HEELS IN CHARLOTTE
• Carolina is 174-19 in games played in Charlotte, including 21-7 in the ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
• UNC has won five ACC Tournaments in Charlotte (1968, 1969, 1991, 1994 and 2008).
• The Tar Heels have won 37 of their last 41 games played in Charlotte.
• UNC is 13-1 in the Spectrum Center. That includes three ACC Tournament wins and a title in 2007-08.
• The Tar Heels beat Lipscomb in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, then were knocked out of the West Regional in the second round by Texas A&M. Both games were played in the Spectrum Center.

JOHNSON, MAYE, WHITE EARN ALL-ACC HONORS
• Cameron Johnson earned a spot on the 2019 All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team, while teammates Luke Maye and Coby White made the second team, giving the Tar Heels three of the top 10 spots on the league's all-star teams.
• Johnson was the fourth-leading vote-getter among the first-team selections, with Maye, a first-team pick in 2018, receiving the sixth-most votes overall and the most among the second-team honorees. Johnson is the 78th first-team All-ACC selection for the Tar Heels, most in league history.
• White received the ninth-most votes for the all-conference teams and also earned a spot on the All-Freshman team. He was chosen by 67 of 70 voters for the All-Freshman team, the second-highest vote-getter behind Duke's Zion Williamson.
• Johnson, a graduate student from Moon Township, Pa., is in his second year as a Tar Heel after graduating with honors from the University of Pittsburgh in three years. He leads the Tar Heels in scoring (16.8 points per game), three-pointers (83), three-point percentage (.469) and steals (40). He leads the ACC and is fourth in the nation in three-point percentage, the second highest in UNC single-season history. He has led the Tar Heels in scoring a dozen times, scored in double figures in 29 of 31 games and has five double-doubles. He led the Tar Heels to a 9-0 record in ACC road games, averaging 20.8 points and setting a UNC record by making 57.4 percent of his three-point attempts.
• Maye earned his second All-ACC selection in as many years by averaging 14.6 points and 10.5 rebounds, which leads the team and is second in the league. The Huntersville, N.C., native is second in the ACC in double-doubles with 13, nine of which came in league play. He became just the second Tar Heel ever to have 30 points and 15 rebounds against Duke when he led the Tar Heels to an 88-72 win in Durham on February 20. In that win, he joined Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes as the only players in college basketball history to have a 30/15 game in a win over the No. 1 team in the nation, and became the first Tar Heel ever to score 30 points in games at both Duke and NC State (he had 33 in Raleigh a year ago).
• White averaged a team-high 18.1 points in conference play, is Carolina's all-time leader in three-point field goals by a freshman (75) and is climbing the list for most points by a Tar Heel freshman (ninth with 490). The point guard from Goldsboro, N.C., earned ACC Freshman of the Week honors five times and was the ACC Player of the Week after he scored a combined 62 points in wins over Syracuse and Clemson.

MAYE A TWO-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA
• Luke Maye earned his second consecutive Academic All-America award.
• Maye was named to the Academic All-America second team. He is the fourth Tar Heel men's basketball player to earn Academic All-America honors in multiple seasons with Tom LaGarde (1975, 1976), Tyler Zeller (2011, 2012) and Marcus Paige (2014, 2015, 2016).
• Maye majors in business administration in the nationally-renowned Kenan-Flagler Business School.

MAYE, LITTLE EARN ACADEMIC ALL-ACC HONORS
• Senior forward Luke Maye is the 2019 winner of the Skip Prosser Award, given by the ACC to the league's top scholar-athlete in men's basketball.
• Maye also won the Prosser Award in 2018. Tar Heels have won the award six times in the last nine years.
• Freshman forward Nassir Little joined Maye on the 2019 Academic All-ACC team. Little is the fifth UNC freshman to earn a spot on the Academic All-ACC team.
• Maye is the fourth Tar Heel to earn Academic All-ACC honors four times.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Cameron Johnson

Nassir Little

Luke Maye

Coby White