2018-19 Season Review

2018-19 CAROLINA SEASON IN REVIEW
• Carolina went 29-7 overall, 16-2 in ACC regular-season play, 1-1 in the ACC Tournament (semifinalist) and 2-1 in the NCAA Midwest Regional (advanced to the Sweet 16).
• Carolina became just the second school to play in the NCAA Tournament in at least 50 seasons. The Tar Heels are first all-time in Final Fours (20), second in appearances (50), games (173), wins (126) and winning percentage (.728) and third in NCAA titles (6).
• Carolina was ranked No. 3 in the final Associated Press poll. It was UNC's highest finish in the AP poll 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).
• The Tar Heels were ranked No. 9 in the final coaches poll, which was released after the Final Four.
• Carolina shared the ACC regular-season title with eventual NCAA champion Virginia. It was the 32nd time in school history UNC won at least a share of the ACC regular season title and the ninth time in Roy Williams' 16 seasons as head coach.
• Carolina received a No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional. It was UNC's 17th No. 1 seed, an NCAA record. This was 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).
• Williams led his team to a No. 1 seed for the 13th time, second most in NCAA Tournament history. This was the eighth time in 16 seasons as Carolina's head coach Williams 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 its head coach.
• Carolina beat Iona in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels are 15-0 in the first round under Williams and have won 17 straight round of 64 games. Williams is now an NCAA-best 29-0 in the first round.
• The Tar Heels advanced to the Sweet 16 for an NCAA-record 29th time (10th under Williams).
• Carolina won 20 or more games for the 15th consecutive year and the 61st time overall. It was also the 39th time in school history and the 12th time in the Roy Williams Era the Tar Heels won at least 25 games.
• Carolina won a school-record 16 regular-season ACC games and became the second team in ACC history to go 9-0 on the road in conference play.
• It was the eighth time in the last nine seasons and the 12th time under Williams that Carolina had a winning record in ACC road games.
• Carolina beat No. 1-ranked Duke, 88-72, in Durham on 2/20/19. It was the 14th time UNC beat the AP No. 1-ranked team, an NCAA record. It was the eighth time Roy Williams beat No. 1, also an NCAA record.
• The Tar Heels set a school record by making 312 three-pointers. Cameron Johnson made 96, the second most in UNC history, and Coby White hit 82, most ever by a Tar Heel freshman. Johnson and White connected on a combined 178 threes, second most by any duo in UNC history.
• Johnson earned first-team All-ACC honors. He led the Tar Heels in scoring (16.9 ppg) and was the only player in the top 10 in ACC field goal, three-point and free throw percentages.
• Senior Luke Maye and White were second-team All-ACC.
• White made the ACC All-Freshman team and was one of four finalists for the Wayman Tisdale Award, which is awarded to the national freshman of the year.
• Maye was second in the ACC in rebounding (for the second year in a row) at 10.5 per game, becoming the first Tar Heel since 1976 to average a double-double in points and rebounds in consecutive seasons. His 750 rebounds in the last two seasons are the most ever by a Tar Heel in back-to-back seasons.
• Maye earned Academic All-America honors and won the Prosser Award as the top men's basketball scholar-athlete in the ACC for the second year in a row. It was the sixth time in nine seasons a Tar Heel won the ACC honor.
• Seniors Kenny Williams and Maye were part of 121 wins in their four seasons, which equaled the third-most wins in any four-year span in Carolina basketball history.
• Maye played in 59 ACC wins (regular season and Tournament), which tied Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks, who played in 59 ACC wins from 2013-17.
• Roy Williams was named the National Coach of the Year by USA Today, the ninth season in which he has earned national coaching honors.

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.
• Carolina won its 32nd regular-season ACC title, most in league history. Duke is second with 19 and Virginia is third with nine.
• Roy Williams has won nine regular-season ACC titles in 16 years. He has led UNC to more regular-season championships than every other school has won in their program's history except Duke and Virginia.
• Roy Williams has led Carolina (9) and Kansas (9) to 18 regular-season conference titles in 31 years as head coach. That is tied for the third most in college basketball history behind only Adolph Rupp of Kentucky (28) and Phog Allen (24) of Kansas.

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 is the 78th first-team All-ACC selection for the Tar Heels, most in league history.
• White 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, Maye and White also were among 10 players on the USBWA's All-District III team.

ROY NAMED USA TODAY COACH OF THE YEAR
• USA Today named Roy Williams its National Coach of the Year.
• This is the ninth season Williams has earned National Coach of the Year honors.
• The previous selections came in: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2017.

ALL-ACC TOURNAMENT
• Cameron Johnson scored 23 points against Duke in the semifinals to earn a spot on the 2019 ACC All-Tournament team.
• Luke Maye and Coby White were second-team All-Tournament selections.

WHITE A TISDALE AWARD FINALIST
• Point guard Coby White was one of four finalists for the USBWA's Wayman Tisdale Award, which is presented to the National Freshman of the Year.
• White joined Detroit's Antoine Davis and Duke's RJ Barrett and Zion Williamson as finalists.

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 majored in business administration in the nationally-renowned Kenan-Flagler Business School.

MAYE, LITTLE EARN ACADEMIC ALL-ACC HONORS
• Senior forward Luke Maye won the 2019 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.

WHITE A FIVE-TIME ROOKIE WINNER
• Coby White was the second-leading vote-getter on the ACC All-Freshman team (behind only Zion Williamson) and won Freshman of the Week honors five times, including the last two weeks and four times in league play. White is the 25th Tar Heel to win ACC Freshman of the Week multiple times. His five awards equal the fourth most by any UNC freshman.

BEATING NO. 1
• Carolina's 88-72 win at Duke was the 14th time UNC defeated the No. 1 team 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.

ROY'S REMARKABLE ROAD SUCCESS
• Carolina went 9-0 on the road in ACC games. It was the eighth winning record in ACC road games in the last nine seasons and the 12th 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 (9-0).
• Williams is third all-time with 88 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 65.2 percent (88-47).
• Carolina has gone unbeaten in ACC road games seven times: 1957 (7-0), 1960 (4-0), 1976 (6-0), 1984 (7-0), 1987 (7-0), 2008 (8-0) and 2019 (9-0).
• Carolina went 11-1 on the road in all games. 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 in late November 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).

ACC LEADERS
• Carolina led the ACC in scoring, rebounding, rebound margin and assists, was second in three-point field goals per game, offensive rebounding and assist/turnover ratio, third in scoring margin and three-point percentage and fourth in field goal percentage.
• Cameron Johnson led the league in three-point percentage (.457). He is the fourth Tar Heel to accomplish that (Hubert Davis, 1991; Dante Calabria, 1995, Raymond Felton, 2005).
• Johnson also was the only player in the ACC in the top 10 in field goal, three-point and free throw percentage. The graduate student from Moon Township, Pa., was sixth in FG, first in 3FG and fourth in FT shooting.
• For the second consecutive season Luke Maye was second in the ACC in rebounding. As a junior, Maye averaged 10.1 rebounds per game; he upped that average to 10.5 as a senior, the fourth highest by a Tar Heel in the last 50 years.

MISCELLANEOUS
• Carolina won at No. 1 Duke, No. 15 NC State and No. 15 Louisville (AP). This was the first time since 2006 UNC won three road games over AP-top 15 teams.
• 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.
• Carolina won three ACC road games by 20 or more points for the second time in school history. UNC 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).
• Carolina averaged 85.8 points, which was third highest in the nation. It was the fourth-highest figure in Roy Williams' 16 seasons as head coach and the highest since 2008-09.
• Carolina has ranked in the top 10 in scoring nine times under Williams.
• This is the 10th time in 16 seasons UNC averaged 80-plus points under Williams.
• Carolina was eighth nationally in offensive efficiency and 15th in defensive efficiency (KenPom). UNC was one of six teams ranked in the top 15 in both offensive and defensive efficiencies (with Virginia, Gonzaga, Duke, Michigan State and Kentucky).
• Carolina has finished the season in the top 10 in KenPom's offensive efficiency in nine of Williams' 16 seasons, including 10th in 2015, first in 2016, ninth in 2017, sixth in 2018 and eighth in 2019.
• Carolina had the fifth-most possessions and the played the sixth-fastest tempo in the nation according to KenPom.
• Carolina's strength of schedule was eighth-hardest in the country (KenPom). The Tar Heels won 29 games and finished 15th in defensive efficiency while playing a schedule that had the second-best collective offensive efficiency in the country.
• Sophomore forward Garrison Brooks was Carolina's defensive player of the game a team-leading 12 times, including seven times in ACC play and once in the NCAA Tournament. Brooks has won the award, which is based on coaches' grades, 20 times in his first two seasons.
• Carolina had only one change in the starting lineup during the entire season. Garrison Brooks, Cameron Johnson, Luke Maye and Kenny Williams each started all 36 games; Coby White started 35. White did not play against UNCW on 12/5/18 due to ankle soreness, so junior guard Seventh Woods started at the point.
• Carolina shot 74.3 percent from the free throw line for the second straight year. UNC shot no higher than 68.2 percent from the line from 2010-14, but has shot at least 70 percent in each of the last five seasons.

LUKE MAYE
The senior from Huntersville, N.C., finished his career 10th all-time in rebounding by a Tar Heel with 942. Other notable accomplishments:
– most rebounds in consecutive years by a Tar Heel (750)
– only player with two of the top 10 single-season rebound totals in UNC history
– tied for 39th in scoring by a Tar Heel with 1,392 points
– the only Tar Heel with 1,300 points, 900 rebounds and 100 three-pointers
– only Tar Heel to ever score 30 points in games at both Duke and NC State
– second player in college basketball history (with Houston's Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes) to ever have 30 points and 15 rebounds in a win over the No. 1 ranked team in the AP poll (Maye had 30 and 15 against Duke on 2/20/19)
– played in a UNC record-tying 59 ACC regular-season and Tournament wins
– two-time Academic All-America, winner of the Prosser Award as the ACC's top scholar-athlete in men's basketball and All-ACC performer (first team in 2018, second team in 2019)
– Finalist for the 2019 James A. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the country
– Winner of the Senior CLASS award, given to the top senior in men's basketball honoring excellence in athletics, academic and community service

COBY WHITE
• Set the UNC freshman record for three-pointers with 82
• Became the first freshman to score 30 or more points three times (33 vs. Texas, 33 vs. Miami and 34 vs. Syracuse)
• One of 10 Tar Heels to ever score 33 or more points three times in the same season
• Earned ACC Player of the Week honors five times, which equaled the most by an any freshman in the ACC this season and tied the fourth most all-time by a Tar Heel

REBOUNDING
• Carolina out-rebounded its opponents 31 times in 36 games and went 26-5 in those games.
• Carolina had 40 or more rebounds 24 times, including 10 of the last 11 games; UNC went 20-4 when it had 40 or more rebounds.
• The Tar Heels led the nation in rebound margin at plus 10.4 per game. That was the fourth-highest rebound margin in UNC history and the third-best in the Roy Williams Era.
• UNC has finished in the top 10 in the nation in rebound margin in 10 of 16 seasons under Williams, including No. 1 in the country in 2008, 2012, 2017 and 2019. The Tar Heels have finished ninth, ninth, first, third and first in the nation in the last five years.
• For the third consecutive year, Carolina led the nation with 43.8 rebounds per game. UNC also led the nation in rebounds per game in 2016-17 (43.7) and 2017-18 (42.4).

ASSISTS
• The Tar Heels averaged 18.8 assists per game, second in the country behind Belmont's 19.5. The 18.8 assists were the 11th most in UNC history and the most in a season since 2004-05 (19.1 per game).
• Carolina went 15-0 when it had 20 or more assists.
• The Tar Heels have finished in the top six in the country in assists per game 12 times under Williams, including second, fourth, fourth, tied for fourth and second in the last five seasons.

THREE-POINTERS
• Carolina made 312 three-pointers, which established a single-season school record (previous was 305 in 2018).
• Three of UNC's four-highest single-season totals have come in the last four seasons.
• The Tar Heels averaged a school-record 8.7 threes per game. UNC made 8.0 or more in only two previous seasons (8.3 in 2002-03 and 8.2 in 2017-18).
• The Tar Heels made 13 or more three-pointers six times this season (13 vs. Gonzaga, 16 vs. Virginia Tech, 13 at Georgia Tech, 13 vs. Miami, 16 at Wake Forest and 13 at Clemson). This was the first time in school history the Tar Heels made 13 or more threes six times. UNC won all six of those games.
• The Tar Heels scored 936 of their 3,089 points from three-point range, which equaled the highest percentage (.303) in the Roy Williams Era.
• The Tar Heels also scored 30.3 percent of their points from beyond the arc in 2017-18.

AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina was No. 3 in the final 2018-19 AP poll, which was released on March 18.
• It was Carolina's 38th top-10 finish, 25th top-five finish and 12th top-three finish in the AP poll.
• Carolina has finished in the top 10 in 38 seasons and out of the top 10 in just 33 seasons.
• Carolina has finished in the top 10 in 27 of the last 39 years. UNC has finished the season ranked in the AP poll 51 times.
• It was Roy Williams' 20th top-10 finish in 31 years as a head coach (11 in 16 seasons at Carolina) and 12th top-five (eight at UNC).
• Carolina has been ranked in the AP poll 916 times, more than any other school in college basketball history.
• Carolina was ranked in the top 10 in each of the last eight polls in 2018-19.
• UNC reached as high as No. 3 in the AP poll this season. It was UNC's highest ranking in the AP poll since week four in 2016-17 (also No. 3).
• The final poll was the 100th consecutive AP poll in which the Tar Heels were 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 was the 56th time in 71 seasons the Tar Heels have been ranked in the top 10 in at least one week of the poll.

PLAYING AP-RANKED TEAMS
• Carolina played nine teams that were ranked in the final AP top 25, including three of the top four and six of the top 10 teams.
• Carolina went 8-5 against AP-ranked opponents.
• The Tar Heels beat No. 17 UCLA, No. 4 Gonzaga, No. 15 NC State, No. 10 Virginia Tech, No. 15 Louisville, No. 1 Duke, No. 16 Florida State and No. 4 Duke.
• UNC lost to No. 7 Michigan, No. 19 Kentucky, No. 4 Virginia, No. 5 Duke and No. 14 Auburn.
• Carolina had eight wins over ranked teams prior to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since winning 10 in 1998.

NUMBER ONE IN WINS PER SEASON
• Carolina has 2,261 wins in 109 seasons. The Tar Heels have averaged 20.7 wins per season. UNC is the only school in the top 10 in all-time NCAA wins that has averaged at least 20 wins per season.

HALL OF FAMERS
• Charlie Scott was inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2018.
• In April 2019, Bobby Jones became the 11th Tar Heel (and seventh UNC player) elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame. An All-America in 1974 and the most recent player to lead the ACC in field goal percentage in three consecutive seasons, Jones will be inducted at ceremonies in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 5-7.
• Jones will become the 11th Tar Heel in the Naismith Hall of Fame, joining 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) and Charlie Scott (2018).• Sam Perkins was inducted in the NABC Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in November 2018.
• Assistant coach Steve Robinson is one of eight Division I coaches selected to the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches' Hall of Fame.

ROY WILLIAMS COURT
• On 8/23/18, Carolina officially dedicated the Tar Heels' home floor as Roy Williams Court at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The dedication was part of a two-day Carolina Basketball reunion of more than 300 players, coaches, managers and staff.

Players Mentioned

Garrison Brooks

Cameron Johnson

Nassir Little

Luke Maye

Coby White

Kenny Williams

Seventh Woods

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