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University of North Carolina Athletics
Wednesday, January 22
Blacksburg, Va.
8 PM
North Carolina
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Virginia Tech
Leaky Black
Photo by: J.D. Lyon Jr.
Tar Heels Set To Visit Hokies On Wednesday Night
January 21, 2020 | Men's Basketball
GAME 18 NOTEBOOK
• UNC will visit Virginia Tech on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on the ACC Network.
• Carolina is 8-9 overall, including 1-5 in ACC play. The Tar Heels lost at Pittsburgh, 66-52, on Jan. 18.
• Carolina has lost four in a row overall and five consecutive ACC games. It's only the fourth time overall and first time since 2002-03 (also lost five in a row two times in 2001-02) that UNC has lost five straight ACC games.
• UNC has not previously lost six consecutive ACC games.
• This is only the fourth time in 32 seasons a Roy Williams team has lost four or more games in a row (eight consecutive at Kansas in 1988-89 and four straight twice this season and once in 2009-10). In fact, his teams at UNC and Kansas only lost three or more in a row nine times.
• The Tar Heels are 1-3 on the road with a win at UNCW and losses at Gonzaga, Virginia and Pittsburgh.
• Virginia Tech is 13-5 overall and 4-3 in ACC play. The Hokies are coming off a 71-69 loss in Blacksburg to Syracuse, but have won three of the last four games.
• Carolina has lost nine of its last 12 games since beginning the season with wins in its first five games.Â
• The Tar Heels are 2-6 since leading scorer Cole Anthony was sidelined with a right knee injury.
• Carolina started its sixth different lineup of the season in the 79-76, overtime loss to Clemson on Jan. 11. Last season, the Tar Heels used two starting lineups – one for 35 games and one for a single game.
• The six starting lineups are the most by the Tar Heels in a season since 2013-14, when they used seven (including Senior Day).
• Sophomore Leaky Black became the fourth Tar Heel to start at the point this season when the Tar Heels played Clemson. Cole Anthony (nine games), K.J. Smith (three), Jeremiah Francis (three) and Black have each started at the point. In 2007-08, Roy Williams started three players at the point (Ty Lawson, Quentin Thomas and Bobby Frasor), the previous high in the Williams Era (2003-present).
• Seven different Tar Heels have combined to miss a total of 53 games due to injury thus far this season: Sterling Manley (all 17 games– left knee surgery on 12/12/19); Anthony Harris (12– including the first eight games due to left knee injury from high school, and four games after right knee surgery on 1/4/2020); Jeremiah Francis (nine games– the first eight due to a left knee injury from high school and the Clemson game due to soreness in the left knee); Cole Anthony (last eight games– right knee surgery on 12/16/19); Brandon Robinson (first four games– right ankle); Andrew Platek (two games– left ankle) and Leaky Black (one game– turf toe, right foot).
• Carolina's nine losses in its first 17 games are the most since the 2001-02 team went 6-11 in the first 17.
BACOT'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES
• Freshman Armando Bacot had 12 points, 11 rebounds and three steals at Pittsburgh. The double-double was his sixth of the season.
• He's the first Tar Heel freshman with six double-doubles since Tyler Hansbrough had six in 2005-06.
• Bacot is averaging 10.2 points and 7.9 rebounds and leads UNC with 24 blocked shots.
• His 7.9 rebounds are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Sean May averaged 8.1 in 2002-03.
UNC'S FRESHMAN DOUBLE-DOUBLES
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
 9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
 9 Sam Perkins, 19890-81
 6 Armando Bacot
 6 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
 6 Rasheed Wallace, 1993-94
 6 Mike O'Koren, 1976-77
BROOKS-ROBINSON
• Junior forward Garrison Brooks leads Carolina in field goal percentage (.528) and rebounding (9.2) and is second in scoring (14.4).Â
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson leads the team in three-pointers (33) and assists (39) and is third in scoring (12.1).
• In the eight games without injured point guard Cole Anthony, Brooks is averaging 17.6 points and 10.4 rebounds in more than 35 minutes; Robinson is averaging 14.0 points and 3.3 assists and has made 26 threes.
• Brooks netted a career-high 35 points on Jan. 4 vs. Georgia Tech and has double-doubles in each of the last five games.
• Brooks is the first Tar Heel with five straight double-doubles since Brice Johnson in 2015-16. The last Tar Heel with more than five in a row was John Henson with nine in 2010-11.
• Robinson scored a career-high 20 points against Yale on Dec. 30 and surpassed that with a 27-point performance against Clemson on Jan. 11.
• Brooks is third in the ACC in rebounds and offensive rebounds and fourth in field goal percentage.Â
• Robinson is sixth in the ACC in three-pointers made (2.5 per game) and three-point accuracy (.347).
• Brooks was UNC's defensive player of the game against Pittsburgh, his team-leading seventh award of the season and the 27th of his career. He was UNC's defensive player of the year as a sophomore in 2018-19.Â
• Robinson has made 23 three-pointers in the last six games (three vs. UCLA, five vs. Yale, four vs. Georgia Tech, three vs. Pitt, five vs. Clemson and three at Pitt). His 33 threes this season are already the most in a season in his collegiate career (23 last year).
REBOUNDING LEADERS ONCE AGAIN
• The Tar Heels lead the nation in rebounds per game (43.8), are third in offensive rebounds per game (14.7) and ninth in rebound margin (+9.1). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 14.8 second-chance points per game. UNC averaged 14.4 in 2015-16, 17.6 in 2016-17, 15.1 in 2017-18 and 15.3 in 2018-19.
SERIES VS. VIRGINIA TECH
• Carolina is 68-14 against Virginia Tech, including 15-4 since the Hokies joined the ACC.
• Carolina is 21-7 in Blacksburg, including 8-3 at Cassell Coliseum.
• Roy Williams is 15-4 against the Hokies.
• Carolina has won eight of the last nine games against Tech.
LAST YEAR VS. VIRGINIA TECH
• UNC defeated the Hokies, 103-82, in Chapel Hill on 1/21/2019, in the only meeting between the teams last season.
• Carolina made 16 three-pointers, which equaled the second most in UNC history.
• The teams made 29 three-pointers, most ever in a game in the Smith Center. The previous high was 28 by UNC (16) and Western Carolina (12) on 12/6/17.
• Carolina made 1 of its first 12 from three, then made 14 of its next 19.Â
• Carolina attempted 34 three-pointers, second most in UNC history and the most ever by a Roy Williams team.
• Carolina went on a 20-0 run (part of a 32-9 run to end the first half).Â
• The 21-point win was Carolina's largest over a top-10 team in the AP poll since beating No. 10 Gonzaga, 98-77, in the Sweet 16 in 2009.
• Coby White became the first Tar Heel to lead the team in points (27), rebounds (7), assists (6) and steals (4) since Joseph Forte at Duke, 2/1/2001 (Forte had 24/16/6/3).
• Freshman Nassir Little scored a season-high 23 points.
• The 50 points by White and Little were the most ever by a pair of UNC freshmen. It was just the third time two UNC freshmen scored 20 points in the same game (Felton and McCants against Virginia and NC State in 2003).
• Senior forward Luke Maye tied his career high with four three-pointers.Â
ROY AT 879
• Carolina's win over Yale moved Roy Williams into a tie with Dean Smith for fourth place in wins by a Division I head coach with 879 and into a tie with Gary Williams for third place for wins by an ACC head coach with 461.
• Earlier this season Williams passed Jim Calhoun (873) and Adolph Rupp (876).
MOST WINS BY A DIVISION I HEAD COACH
1147 Mike Krzyzewski
956 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
879 Dean Smith
879 Roy Williams
876 Adolph Rupp
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1074 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
• Williams led UNC to more wins in his first 600 games as an ACC head coach than any other coach in league history.
MOST WINS IN FIRST 600 GAMES AS ACC HEAD COACH
461 Roy Williams North Carolina
456 Dean Smith North Carolina
446 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
392 Gary Williams Maryland
CHALLENGING SCHEDULE
• Ken Pomeroy ranks UNC's schedule as the 19th most difficult in the country, with the non-conference schedule as the 25th hardest. That's the third-most challenging schedule among ACC teams for all games (Miami and Georgia Tech are rated ahead of UNC) and easily the hardest non-conference schedule.Â
• The average ACC non-conference strength of schedule (other than UNC) is 209.
NON-CONFERENCE STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE (per KenPom)
31 North Carolina
45 Georgia Tech
84 Duke
127 Wake Forest
134 Florida State
141 Miami
211 Clemson
211 Syracuse
215 Louisville
238 Boston College
242 NC State
277 Virginia
294 Pittsburgh
350 Notre Dame
351 Virginia Tech
SCORING/SHOOTING WOES
• Carolina scored a season-high 83 points in the loss to Georgia Tech on Jan. 4. It was second time in four games UNC scored 80 or more points, but UNC lost both those games (GT and Gonzaga). Dating back to the 97-80 loss to Auburn in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, UNC has lost three consecutive games in which it scored 80 or more points. That's the first time UNC has lost three straight games when scoring 80 points since the 1991-92 season (lost 99-94 to NC State, 110-96 at Florida State and 82-80 at Maryland).
• The Tar Heels have shot under 50 percent from the floor in the first 17 games. That's the longest stretch to open a season on record.
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.400) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season (.396) and its three-point percentage (.291) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring at 69.6 points per game. Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.Â
• In Roy Williams' previous 16 seasons, Carolina has led the ACC in scoring eight times, finished second five times and third three times.Â
• No Roy Williams-coached team in 16 previous seasons at UNC has averaged fewer than 74.5 points per game (in 2009-10). The lowest scoring average in his 15 seasons at Kansas (1988-2003) was 72.1 in 1998-99. Williams' teams have averaged 80 or more points in 23 of his previous 31 seasons as a head coach.
MEDIA POLLING
• Carolina is not ranked in the Associated Press poll for the sixth week in a row, its longest streak not in the poll since going unranked for seven consecutive polls in 2013-14.
• UNC was ranked in each of the first six weeks of the 2019-20 AP poll.
• The December 16th poll marked the first time in 107 polls the Tar Heels were not ranked in the AP poll.
• UNC has finished the season in the top 10 in each of the last four seasons (3 in 2015-16, 5 in 2016-17, 10 in 2017-18 and 3 in 2018-19).
• Carolina has been ranked in 922 AP polls, the most rankings of any school in the country.Â
• Carolina has finished in the Top 10 of the AP poll 38 times, including 27 of the previous 39 years.
• Carolina's 106-week streak of being ranked in the AP poll was the third longest in UNC history and the sixth longest in ACC history.
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• UNC will visit Virginia Tech on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on the ACC Network.
• Carolina is 8-9 overall, including 1-5 in ACC play. The Tar Heels lost at Pittsburgh, 66-52, on Jan. 18.
• Carolina has lost four in a row overall and five consecutive ACC games. It's only the fourth time overall and first time since 2002-03 (also lost five in a row two times in 2001-02) that UNC has lost five straight ACC games.
• UNC has not previously lost six consecutive ACC games.
• This is only the fourth time in 32 seasons a Roy Williams team has lost four or more games in a row (eight consecutive at Kansas in 1988-89 and four straight twice this season and once in 2009-10). In fact, his teams at UNC and Kansas only lost three or more in a row nine times.
• The Tar Heels are 1-3 on the road with a win at UNCW and losses at Gonzaga, Virginia and Pittsburgh.
• Virginia Tech is 13-5 overall and 4-3 in ACC play. The Hokies are coming off a 71-69 loss in Blacksburg to Syracuse, but have won three of the last four games.
• Carolina has lost nine of its last 12 games since beginning the season with wins in its first five games.Â
• The Tar Heels are 2-6 since leading scorer Cole Anthony was sidelined with a right knee injury.
• Carolina started its sixth different lineup of the season in the 79-76, overtime loss to Clemson on Jan. 11. Last season, the Tar Heels used two starting lineups – one for 35 games and one for a single game.
• The six starting lineups are the most by the Tar Heels in a season since 2013-14, when they used seven (including Senior Day).
• Sophomore Leaky Black became the fourth Tar Heel to start at the point this season when the Tar Heels played Clemson. Cole Anthony (nine games), K.J. Smith (three), Jeremiah Francis (three) and Black have each started at the point. In 2007-08, Roy Williams started three players at the point (Ty Lawson, Quentin Thomas and Bobby Frasor), the previous high in the Williams Era (2003-present).
• Seven different Tar Heels have combined to miss a total of 53 games due to injury thus far this season: Sterling Manley (all 17 games– left knee surgery on 12/12/19); Anthony Harris (12– including the first eight games due to left knee injury from high school, and four games after right knee surgery on 1/4/2020); Jeremiah Francis (nine games– the first eight due to a left knee injury from high school and the Clemson game due to soreness in the left knee); Cole Anthony (last eight games– right knee surgery on 12/16/19); Brandon Robinson (first four games– right ankle); Andrew Platek (two games– left ankle) and Leaky Black (one game– turf toe, right foot).
• Carolina's nine losses in its first 17 games are the most since the 2001-02 team went 6-11 in the first 17.
BACOT'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES
• Freshman Armando Bacot had 12 points, 11 rebounds and three steals at Pittsburgh. The double-double was his sixth of the season.
• He's the first Tar Heel freshman with six double-doubles since Tyler Hansbrough had six in 2005-06.
• Bacot is averaging 10.2 points and 7.9 rebounds and leads UNC with 24 blocked shots.
• His 7.9 rebounds are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Sean May averaged 8.1 in 2002-03.
UNC'S FRESHMAN DOUBLE-DOUBLES
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
 9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
 9 Sam Perkins, 19890-81
 6 Armando Bacot
 6 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
 6 Rasheed Wallace, 1993-94
 6 Mike O'Koren, 1976-77
BROOKS-ROBINSON
• Junior forward Garrison Brooks leads Carolina in field goal percentage (.528) and rebounding (9.2) and is second in scoring (14.4).Â
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson leads the team in three-pointers (33) and assists (39) and is third in scoring (12.1).
• In the eight games without injured point guard Cole Anthony, Brooks is averaging 17.6 points and 10.4 rebounds in more than 35 minutes; Robinson is averaging 14.0 points and 3.3 assists and has made 26 threes.
• Brooks netted a career-high 35 points on Jan. 4 vs. Georgia Tech and has double-doubles in each of the last five games.
• Brooks is the first Tar Heel with five straight double-doubles since Brice Johnson in 2015-16. The last Tar Heel with more than five in a row was John Henson with nine in 2010-11.
• Robinson scored a career-high 20 points against Yale on Dec. 30 and surpassed that with a 27-point performance against Clemson on Jan. 11.
• Brooks is third in the ACC in rebounds and offensive rebounds and fourth in field goal percentage.Â
• Robinson is sixth in the ACC in three-pointers made (2.5 per game) and three-point accuracy (.347).
• Brooks was UNC's defensive player of the game against Pittsburgh, his team-leading seventh award of the season and the 27th of his career. He was UNC's defensive player of the year as a sophomore in 2018-19.Â
• Robinson has made 23 three-pointers in the last six games (three vs. UCLA, five vs. Yale, four vs. Georgia Tech, three vs. Pitt, five vs. Clemson and three at Pitt). His 33 threes this season are already the most in a season in his collegiate career (23 last year).
REBOUNDING LEADERS ONCE AGAIN
• The Tar Heels lead the nation in rebounds per game (43.8), are third in offensive rebounds per game (14.7) and ninth in rebound margin (+9.1). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 14.8 second-chance points per game. UNC averaged 14.4 in 2015-16, 17.6 in 2016-17, 15.1 in 2017-18 and 15.3 in 2018-19.
SERIES VS. VIRGINIA TECH
• Carolina is 68-14 against Virginia Tech, including 15-4 since the Hokies joined the ACC.
• Carolina is 21-7 in Blacksburg, including 8-3 at Cassell Coliseum.
• Roy Williams is 15-4 against the Hokies.
• Carolina has won eight of the last nine games against Tech.
LAST YEAR VS. VIRGINIA TECH
• UNC defeated the Hokies, 103-82, in Chapel Hill on 1/21/2019, in the only meeting between the teams last season.
• Carolina made 16 three-pointers, which equaled the second most in UNC history.
• The teams made 29 three-pointers, most ever in a game in the Smith Center. The previous high was 28 by UNC (16) and Western Carolina (12) on 12/6/17.
• Carolina made 1 of its first 12 from three, then made 14 of its next 19.Â
• Carolina attempted 34 three-pointers, second most in UNC history and the most ever by a Roy Williams team.
• Carolina went on a 20-0 run (part of a 32-9 run to end the first half).Â
• The 21-point win was Carolina's largest over a top-10 team in the AP poll since beating No. 10 Gonzaga, 98-77, in the Sweet 16 in 2009.
• Coby White became the first Tar Heel to lead the team in points (27), rebounds (7), assists (6) and steals (4) since Joseph Forte at Duke, 2/1/2001 (Forte had 24/16/6/3).
• Freshman Nassir Little scored a season-high 23 points.
• The 50 points by White and Little were the most ever by a pair of UNC freshmen. It was just the third time two UNC freshmen scored 20 points in the same game (Felton and McCants against Virginia and NC State in 2003).
• Senior forward Luke Maye tied his career high with four three-pointers.Â
ROY AT 879
• Carolina's win over Yale moved Roy Williams into a tie with Dean Smith for fourth place in wins by a Division I head coach with 879 and into a tie with Gary Williams for third place for wins by an ACC head coach with 461.
• Earlier this season Williams passed Jim Calhoun (873) and Adolph Rupp (876).
MOST WINS BY A DIVISION I HEAD COACH
1147 Mike Krzyzewski
956 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
879 Dean Smith
879 Roy Williams
876 Adolph Rupp
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1074 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
• Williams led UNC to more wins in his first 600 games as an ACC head coach than any other coach in league history.
MOST WINS IN FIRST 600 GAMES AS ACC HEAD COACH
461 Roy Williams North Carolina
456 Dean Smith North Carolina
446 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
392 Gary Williams Maryland
CHALLENGING SCHEDULE
• Ken Pomeroy ranks UNC's schedule as the 19th most difficult in the country, with the non-conference schedule as the 25th hardest. That's the third-most challenging schedule among ACC teams for all games (Miami and Georgia Tech are rated ahead of UNC) and easily the hardest non-conference schedule.Â
• The average ACC non-conference strength of schedule (other than UNC) is 209.
NON-CONFERENCE STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE (per KenPom)
31 North Carolina
45 Georgia Tech
84 Duke
127 Wake Forest
134 Florida State
141 Miami
211 Clemson
211 Syracuse
215 Louisville
238 Boston College
242 NC State
277 Virginia
294 Pittsburgh
350 Notre Dame
351 Virginia Tech
SCORING/SHOOTING WOES
• Carolina scored a season-high 83 points in the loss to Georgia Tech on Jan. 4. It was second time in four games UNC scored 80 or more points, but UNC lost both those games (GT and Gonzaga). Dating back to the 97-80 loss to Auburn in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, UNC has lost three consecutive games in which it scored 80 or more points. That's the first time UNC has lost three straight games when scoring 80 points since the 1991-92 season (lost 99-94 to NC State, 110-96 at Florida State and 82-80 at Maryland).
• The Tar Heels have shot under 50 percent from the floor in the first 17 games. That's the longest stretch to open a season on record.
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.400) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season (.396) and its three-point percentage (.291) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring at 69.6 points per game. Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.Â
• In Roy Williams' previous 16 seasons, Carolina has led the ACC in scoring eight times, finished second five times and third three times.Â
• No Roy Williams-coached team in 16 previous seasons at UNC has averaged fewer than 74.5 points per game (in 2009-10). The lowest scoring average in his 15 seasons at Kansas (1988-2003) was 72.1 in 1998-99. Williams' teams have averaged 80 or more points in 23 of his previous 31 seasons as a head coach.
MEDIA POLLING
• Carolina is not ranked in the Associated Press poll for the sixth week in a row, its longest streak not in the poll since going unranked for seven consecutive polls in 2013-14.
• UNC was ranked in each of the first six weeks of the 2019-20 AP poll.
• The December 16th poll marked the first time in 107 polls the Tar Heels were not ranked in the AP poll.
• UNC has finished the season in the top 10 in each of the last four seasons (3 in 2015-16, 5 in 2016-17, 10 in 2017-18 and 3 in 2018-19).
• Carolina has been ranked in 922 AP polls, the most rankings of any school in the country.Â
• Carolina has finished in the Top 10 of the AP poll 38 times, including 27 of the previous 39 years.
• Carolina's 106-week streak of being ranked in the AP poll was the third longest in UNC history and the sixth longest in ACC history.
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