Tar Heels Set For Hurricanes Saturday

Saturday, January 25

Chapel Hill

Noon

North Carolina

Miami

Garrison Brooks

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January 24, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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North Carolina will host Miami on Saturday at noon in the Smith Center. ESPN2 will televise the game nationally.

GAME 19 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 8-10 overall, including 1-6 in ACC play. The Tar Heels are coming off a 79-77 loss in double-overtime at Virginia Tech. It was Carolina's third loss in the last six games in which held a halftime lead.
• Carolina was without four of its top players at Blacksburg and played just seven players against the Hokies, including four who played at least 45 minutes (48:21 by Garrison Brooks, 48:00 by Andrew Platek, 47:21 by Leaky Black and 45:53 by Justin Pierce).
• It was the first time four Tar Heels played at least 45 minutes in a game since a quadruple overtime win at Tulane on 2/14/1976 (58 by Phil Ford, 56 by John Kuester, 51 by Mitch Kupchak and 49 by Walter Davis).
• Virginia Tech won despite UNC holding the Hokies to 36.9 percent shooting from the floor. It was the fourth time this season an opponent shot under 40 percent from the floor in a win over UNC (Virginia, Wofford, at Pitt and at Virginia Tech). In the previous four seasons, the Tar Heels were 52-3 when holding the opponents under 40 percent. This season, UNC is 7-4 in those games.
• Miami is 10-8 overall and 2-6 in the ACC. The Hurricanes have lost three in a row, including 89-59 at Duke on Jan. 21.
• Miami has started the same lineup in all 18 of its games; Carolina has started seven different lineups in its 18 games.
• Carolina has lost five in a row overall and six consecutive ACC games. It's the first five-game losing streak since 2003.
• This is the first time UNC has lost six consecutive ACC games and the first time UNC has a 1-6 record in ACC play.
• UNC has not lost six in a row since the 2001-02 season.
• This is only the second time in 32 seasons a Roy Williams team has lost five or more games in a row (eight consecutive at Kansas in 1988-89).
• Carolina's 10 losses in its first 18 games are the most since the 2001-02 team went 6-12 in the first 18.
• The Tar Heels are 4-5 at home this season (4-4 at the Smith Center and 0-1 at Carmichael). UNC lost five home games in 2010 and 2015 and has not dropped six at home since 2002.
• Carolina has lost 10 of its last 13 games since beginning the season with wins in its first five games.
• The Tar Heels are 2-7 since leading scorer Cole Anthony was sidelined with a right knee injury.
• Carolina started its seventh different lineup of the season in the 79-77 double overtime loss at Virginia Tech. Last season, the Tar Heels used two starting lineups – one for 35 games and one for a single game.
• The seven starting lineups are the most by the Tar Heels in a season since 2013-14, when they also used seven (including Senior Day).
• Sophomore Leaky Black has started the last three games at the point. He was the fourth to start at the point this season. 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).
• Brandon Robinson did not play at Virgini Tech due to lingering neck soreness from a two-car accident he was in on Jan. 11. He is questionable for the Miami game.
• Seven different Tar Heels have combined to miss a total of 57 games due to injury thus far this season: Sterling Manley (all 18 games– left knee surgery on 12/12/19); Anthony Harris (13– including the first eight games due to left knee injury from high school, and five 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 nine games– right knee surgery on 12/16/19); Brandon Robinson (first four games– right ankle and Virginia Tech due to neck soreness after a car accident on 1/11/20); Andrew Platek (two games– left ankle) and Leaky Black (one game– turf toe, right foot).
• The 57 missed games are the most by scholarship players since the 2011-12 season (63 games) and the third most in the Roy Williams Era (64 in 2008-09).
• In 2011-12, Leslie McDonald (38), Dexter Strickland (19), John Henson (3), Kendall Marshall (2) and P.J. Hairston (1) accounted for the 63 missed games.
• In 2008-09, Marcus Ginyard (34), Tyler Zeller (23), Tyler Hansbrough (4) and Ty Lawson (3) totaled 64 missed games, most in the Williams Era.
• Remarkably, only six players missed a total of 12 games in Williams' first three seasons combined (2003-06).
• Four of Carolina's 2020 signees (R.J. Davis, Walker Kessler, Caleb Love and Day-Ron Sharpe) were named McDonald All-Americans. No other school in the country had four.

GARRISON AMONG THE ACC'S BEST
• Junior forward Garrison Brooks is third in the ACC in rebounding (9.4) and field goal percentage (.536) and 10th in scoring (15.2).
• Brooks and Duke freshman Vernon Carey are the only players in the ACC in the top 10 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
• In ACC play, Brooks is second in the league in rebounding (10.7), third in scoring (18.4) and fifth in field goal percentage (.533).
• Brooks is the only ACC player in the top five in those categories in conference play.
• The LaFayette, Ala., native is averaging 35.0 minutes per game, most by a Tar Heel since point guard Marcus Paige averaged 35.6 in 2013-14.
• The 35.0 minutes are the most by a big man in the Roy Williams Era (previous high was 33.7 by power forward David Noel in 2005-06).
• In the nine games without injured point guard Cole Anthony, Brooks is averaging 18.8 points and 10.7 rebounds in 36.9 minutes per game.
• Brooks netted a career-high 35 points on Jan. 4 vs. Georgia Tech and has double-doubles in each of the last six games.
• His streak of six games with a double-double is the longest by a Tar Heel since John Henson's nine in a row in 2011.
• He had 28 points and 13 rebounds in more than 48 minutes at Virginia Tech. He set a career high with 11 field goals and equaled his career bests in rebounds and assists (6).

ROBINSON'S SENIOR SURGE
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson leads the team in three-pointers (33) and assists (39) and is third in scoring (12.1).
• Robinson's 33 threes this season are already the most in a season in his collegiate career (23 last year).
• He averaged 2.3 points over his first three seasons but is averaging 12.1 this year.
• He made 23 three-pointers in his last six games (three vs. UCLA, five vs. Yale, four vs. Georgia Tech, three vs. Pitt, five vs. Clemson and three at Pitt).
• The Douglasville, Ga., native did not play at Virginia Tech due to lingering neck soreness from a two-car accident he was in several hours after the Clemson game on Jan. 11. He scored a career-high 27 points in that overtime game vs. the Tigers.
• He missed the first four games due to a sprained ankle.
• Robinson was sixth in the ACC in three-pointers made (2.5 per game) and three-point accuracy (.347) before missing the Virginia Tech game.

BACOT'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES
• Freshman Armando Bacot has six double-doubles in points and rebounds.
• 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 7.7 rebounds and leads UNC with 24 blocked shots.
• His 7.7 rebounds are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Hansbrough (7.8) in 2005-06.

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

REBOUNDING LEADERS ONCE AGAIN
• The Tar Heels lead the nation in rebounds per game (43.8), are fifth in offensive rebounds per game (14.2) and 11th in rebound margin (+8.9). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 14.1 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. MIAMI
• Carolina is 24-8 against the Canes, including 11-4 in the Smith Center.
• Carolina has won three in a row.
• Miami has won three of the last five in Chapel Hill, defeating the Tar Heels in the Smith Center in 2013, 2014 and 2018.
• Roy Williams is 18-7 against Miami as head coach of the Tar Heels and 20-8 overall against the Canes (2-1 while at Kansas).

LAST YEAR VS. MIAMI
• Carolina won both games in the regular season – 85-76 in Coral Gables and 88-85 in overtime in Chapel Hill.
• Cameron Johnson scored a game-high 22 points and UNC shot 60 percent from the floor in the second half in the win at Miami.
• Freshman Coby White made seven 3FGs, scored 33 points and had six assists and senior Luke Maye hit a game-tying three with 10.2 seconds to play in the overtime win in the Smith Center.
• Miami (14) and Carolina (13) combined for 27 three-pointers, which tied the third most in any game in the Smith Center.
• When Maye tied the game with a three with 10.2 seconds to play, it was the first time Miami had not led since the 13:48 mark of the second half.
• Kenny Williams gave UNC an 82-79 lead with a three with 2:08 to play in overtime.

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
1148 Mike Krzyzewski
958 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
879 Dean Smith
879 Roy Williams
876 Adolph Rupp

MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1075 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia 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 18 games. That's the longest stretch to open a season on record.
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.402) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season (.396) and its three-point percentage (.293) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring at 70.0 points per game. Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.
• In Roy Williams' previous 16 seasons, Carolina has led the ACC in scoring eight times, finished second five times and third three times.
• 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.
• 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.