Tar Heels & Huskies Will Meet Sunday For Sweet 16 Bid

GAME 35: NCAA SECOND ROUND NOTEBOOK
• Top seed North Carolina will meet No. 9 seed Washington on Sunday at 2:40 PM in the second round of the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional in Columbus, Ohio.
• Carolina is 28-6 overall. The Tar Heels won a share of the ACC regular season title for the ninth time in Roy Williams' 16 seasons and the 32nd time in school history.
• Carolina has advanced to the second round for the 17th consecutive time in the NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels are 22-8 in the round of 32 since the field expanded to at least 64 teams in 1985.
• The Tar Heels are 3-3 in the second round in the previous six seasons and 9-5 in the second round under Roy Williams.
• With the Iona win, Williams is 29-0 in the first round (15-0 at Carolina and 14-0 at Kansas).
• Carolina is 2-0 all-time against Washington, including 1-0 in NCAA Tournament play (an 86-83 second-round win in Charlotte on 3/20/2011).
• Carolina is a No. 1 seed for a record 17th time. This is the best four-year stretch (2016-19) based on NCAA Tournament seeds in Carolina Basketball history (1,1,2,1). Previous bests were 1981-84 (2,1,2,1); 1982-85 (1,2,1,2); 2005-08 (1,3,1,1) and 2006-09 (3,1,1,1).
• Carolina is 125-46 in NCAA Tournament games. UNC is second in NCAA history in appearances (50), wins (125), games (171) and winning percentage (.731).
• Carolina has earned No. 1 seeds in 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2019. The Tar Heels advanced to the Final Four 10 times as a No. 1 seed and won the national championship five times as a No. 1 seed.
• Roy Williams is a No. 1 seed for the 13th time, second most in NCAA Tournament history.
• This is the eighth time in 16 seasons as Carolina's head coach Roy Williams has led the Tar Heels to a No. 1 seed. UNC also was a No. 2 seed twice under Williams. UNC had earned a No. 1 seed five times in the 25 years prior to Williams becoming the head coach.
• Carolina is No. 3 in the final Associated Press poll. This is UNC's highest finish since 2016, when the Tar Heels also were third. It is UNC's 38th top-10 finish in the 71-year history of the AP poll. It is Roy Williams' 20th top-10 finish (11 at UNC) and 15th top-five (eight at UNC).

CAROLINA 88, IONA 73
NCAA FIRST ROUND
MARCH 22, 2019 – COLUMBUS, OHIO

UNC Scoring Leader: Cameron Johnson 21
UNC Rebound Leader: Luke Maye 9
UNC Assist Leader: Cameron Johnson and Coby White 4

Carolina Notes
• 28-6 overall, 3-3 at neutral sites (14-4 away from the Smith Center)
• Carolina has won 16 of its last 18 games.
• Carolina has won its last 17 NCAA first round games – 2000 under Bill Guthridge, 2001 under Matt Doherty and 15 in a row under Roy Williams (2004-09, 2011-19).
• Carolina is 31-1 all-time in the round of 64.
• Carolina is 125-46 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, 62-11 as a No. 1 seed and 14-0 against No. 16 seeds.
• Iona's 15 three-pointers are the most in any NCAA Tournament game vs. UNC (previous was 14 by Weber State in 1999).
• Iona's Rickey McGill made seven threes, which tie the fourth-most against UNC in an NCAA Tournament game.
• Carolina is 12-2 when Cameron Johnson leads UNC in scoring and 15-0 when he makes three or more three-pointers (he made four vs. Iona).
• Carolina is 11-0 when five or more players score in double figures (five did that vs. Iona).
• Carolina is 16-1 when Nassir Little scores in double figures (he had 19).
• Carolina is 18-2 when Coby White has four or more assists (he had four).
• Carolina shot 62.9 percent in the second half, its highest percentage in a half since shooting 74.1 percent in the first half at Wake Forest on Feb. 16.
• It was Carolina's highest field percentage in a half in an NCAA Tournament game since shooting 64.0 in the second half vs. Notre Dame in the 2016 regional final.
• Carolina has made 296 three-pointers, second most in a season in UNC history (305 last year).
• Carolina is 5-5 when trailing at the half this season. Iona led 38-33 at the half. The five-point deficit matched the largest halftime deficit UNC has overcome to win this year (also vs. UCLA).
• The five-point halftime deficit was the sixth-largest overcome by UNC in an NCAA Tournament game. It was the largest comeback from a halftime deficit in the NCAA Tournament since the 2007 Sweet 16 vs. USC. The Trojans led the Tar Heels by nine (42-33) but UNC rallied for a 74-64 win.
• The points per possession in the first half was the largest negative differential for Carolina since the second half of the loss at Michigan on 11/29. Iona scored on 38 points on 34 possessions in the first half (1.12) and UNC scored just 33 points on 47 possessions (.70). That was a spread of minus .42, largest since Michigan had a difference of .61 in the second half of its 84-67 win over the Tar Heels in Ann Arbor in the ACC-Big 10 Challenge.

Tar Heel Player Notes
• Cameron Johnson led UNC with 21 points. It was his 32nd game in double figures and his 11th 20-point game this season. He has led UNC in scoring 14 times, most on the team.
• Johnson made four threes and has made 91 this season to move into fifth in UNC single-season history.
• Johnson and Coby White (two threes tonight) have combined for 169 threes to pass Joel Berry II and Kenny Williams (165 last year) for third most by two Tar Heels in a season.
• White scored 10 points. He has 530 this season. He passed J.R. Reid (528) for seventh place by a UNC freshman.
• Nassir Little scored 19 points (tied team lead in first half with eight points with Coby White). He scored 11 second-half points and finished 9 of 13 from the floor.
• It was the most by points by a Tar Heel freshman in the NCAA Tournament since Harrison Barnes had 20 against Marquette in 2011 (Sweet 16) and the most in a freshman's first NCAA Tournament game since Barnes had 24 vs. LIU in 2011 first round.
• It was Little's top scoring game since he had 23 against Virginia Tech on Jan. 21.
• Luke Maye had 16 points and nine rebounds. He has 356 rebounds this season, the 11th most in a season by a Tar Heel (he had the eighth most, 373, last year).
• Maye is the only player to have TWO of the 11-highest rebound totals in a season in UNC history.
• Maye has 921 career rebounds, 12th most in school history.

Roy Williams Notes
• 870-233 overall (452-132 at Carolina)
• 29-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (15-0 at Carolina in the first round).
• 78-25 overall in the NCAA Tournament (44-11 at Carolina)

Series Notes
• Carolina leads Iona, 4-1

Next Game
Sunday, March 24 vs. Washington, NCAA 2nd Round
2:40 p.m., CBS

Carolina vs. Washington
(UNC leads, 2-0)
Date W–L NC UW Site Rank Coach
12-29-72 W 89 72 Honolulu, Blaisdell, Rainbow Classic 11/- DES
3-20-11 W 86 83 Charlotte Coliseum, NCAAe 7/23 RW

• Carolina is 2-0 against Washington.
• The Tar Heels beat the Huskies on 12-29-1972 in Honolulu in the Rainbow Classic and 3-20-2011 in Charlotte in the second round of the NCAA East Regional.
• The Huskies led the 2011 NCAA Tournament game by a point at the half, but Carolina won, 86-83 behind Tyler Zeller's 23 points, Harrison Barnes' 22 points, John Henson's 10 rebounds and four blocks and Kendall Marshall's 13 points and 14 assists (most ever by a Tar Heel in an NCAA Tournament game).
• Terrence Ross led four Huskies in double figures with 19 points; Isaiah Thomas scored a dozen and had eight assists.
• This is Carolina's first game vs. a Pac-12 opponent in the NCAA Tournament since beating Oregon, 77-76, in Phoenix in the national semifinals on 4/1/2017.
• Carolina went 2-0 against the Pac-12 in the regular season with wins at home over Stanford and in Las Vegas vs. UCLA.
• Carolina has won its last 12 games against Pac-12 opponents and is 13-1 against Pac-12 opponents under Roy Williams.

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Players Mentioned

Joel Berry II

Cameron Johnson

Nassir Little

Luke Maye

Coby White

Kenny Williams