Tar Heels Will Meet Duke In ACC Semifinal Friday Night

GAME 33 NOTEBOOK
• North Carolina will meet Duke for a third time this season when the two teams meet in the ACC Tournament semifinals on Friday at 9:20 p.m. ESPN and Raycom will televise the game.
• Carolina is 27-5 overall, including 17-2 against ACC competition.
• The Tar Heels are playing in the ACC semifinals for the fifth consecutive year and the 51st time in 66 seasons. Carolina is 35-15 in the semifinals.
• This is Roy Williams' 13th time in the ACC semifinals in 16 seasons (is 8-4 in the semifinals).
• UNC is 175-19 in Charlotte, including 22-7 in ACC Tournament games and 14-1 in the Spectrum Center.
• Luke Maye has tied the UNC record for playing in the most ACC wins. Maye has played in 59 ACC wins – 52 in the regular season and seven in the ACC Tournament. Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks also played in 59 ACC wins from 2013-17.
• Carolina's top three scorers are Cameron Johnson (16.8), Coby White (16.4) and Luke Maye (14.8). This is the first time since the national championship season of 2009 when UNC's top three scorers averaged as much as 14.8 per game. The top scorers in 2009 were Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington.
• 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.
• Johnson (85) and White (76) have combined for 161 three-pointers, fifth most by any duo in UNC history.
• Carolina has won 15 of 16 games against ACC opponents for the first time since 1987, when the Tar Heels won 16 of 17 ACC games (regular season and Tournament).
• KenPom ranks Carolina's strength of schedule as No. 3 in the nation behind Kansas and Penn State.
• Carolina is 10-5 in the NCAA's Quadrant I games and 17-5 combined in Q1 and Q2 games. The Tar Heels are tied with Kansas, Michigan and Virginia for the most Q1 and Q2 wins.

UNC-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 139-111. The Tar Heels have won the last three games and four of the last five.
• The Tar Heels beat No. 1 Duke, 88-72, in Durham on February 20; Carolina beat the Blue Devils last Saturday (March 9), 79-70 in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina won at Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Dean E. Smith Center in the same season for the first time since 2009.
• The last time UNC beat Duke three times in one season was 1975-76 when Carolina beat the Blue Devils in the Big Four Tournament in Greensboro and swept both ACC regular-season games. The teams did not play in the ACC Tournament that season.
• Carolina has beaten Duke three times in a season in 1936-37, 1949-50, 1956-57, 1958-59, 1966-67, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1973-74 and 1975-76.
• This is the sixth time UNC won both regular-season ACC games against Duke, then played the Blue Devils in the ACC Tournament. UNC went on to beat Duke in the ACC Tournament in 1959 and 1967; Duke won in the ACC Tournament in 1960, 1980 and 1984.
• In 1959-60, Carolina beat Duke in the Dixie Classic, won both regular-season games and lost to the Blue Devils in the ACC Tournament.
• In 1979-80, Duke beat UNC in the Big Four; the Tar Heels then won both ACC regular-season games before falling to the Blue Devils in the ACC Tournament.
• Carolina is 9-13 against Duke in the ACC Tournament, including 3-7 in the semifinals (beat Duke in the semifinals in 1959, 1972 and 2018; lost to Duke in the semifinals in 1960, 1964, 1966, 1980, 1984, 2003 and 2017).
• This is the second time UNC and Duke have played in the ACC Tournament when both teams are ranked in the top five. In 1998, No. 4 UNC beat No. 1 Duke in the championship game in Greensboro. Bill Guthridge was Carolina's head coach and Antawn Jamison earned Tournament MVP honors, scoring 22 points against Duke in the finals.
• This is the second time UNC and Duke have played in the ACC Tournament in three consecutive seasons (2017-18-19 and 2001-02-03).
• The Tar Heels have played 250 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• Carolina and Duke are playing for the 14th consecutive time when both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• This is the 151st consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 85th game in which both schools are ranked in the AP poll. UNC and Duke are 42-42 those games.
• This is the 32nd time in 36 games in the Williams-Krzyzewski era that both teams are ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 48th game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 10. Carolina is 24-23 in the previous 47 top-10 games.
• This is the 13th game in which both teams are ranked in the top five in the AP poll (UNC is No. 3, Duke is No. 5). The Tar Heels have won seven of those 12 top-five matchups.
• Prior to March 9, the teams had not played when both teams were ranked in the top five since 2/6/2008.
• This is the first time the teams have played consecutive times when both teams were ranked in the top five since 2001.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 16-19 against Duke as Carolina's head coach.
• Carolina is 46-46 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 38 of the ACC's 65 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 20 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 32 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 38 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 37 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.

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Players Mentioned

Cameron Johnson

Luke Maye

Coby White