Tar Heels Head To Raleigh To Face Wolfpack

North Carolina will look for its second win in three days when it visits North Carolina State on Monday night at 7 p.m. in Raleigh. ESPN will televise the game as part of its Big Monday broadcast.

GAME 20 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 9-10 overall, including 2-6 in ACC play. The Tar Heels defeated Miami, 94-71, on January 25 in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina scored a season-high 94 points, shot a season-best 58.0 percent from the floor and handed out 32 assists on 40 field goals in the win over the Canes. The 32 assists tied the most by UNC in the Roy Williams Era.
• The Miami game was the first this season in which Carolina shot 50 percent or better from the floor and the first time UNC scored 90 points. The Tar Heels improved to 212-7 when they shoot 50 percent and 148-5 when they score 90 points under Roy Williams.
• Brandon Robinson, who missed the previous game due to neck soreness, made six threes and scored a career-high 29 points, and Armando Bacot had 19 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists vs. the Canes.
• The UNC-NC State game is the first of three Saturday-Monday turnarounds for the Tar Heels. All three include a Saturday home game and a road game on Monday.
• The win over Miami broke a five-game losing streak and an unprecedented six-game ACC losing streak. It was UNC's first five-game skid since the 2002-03 season.
• UNC has a 2-6 record in ACC play for the second time (also 2001-02).
• Carolina's 10 losses in its first 19 games are the most since the 2001-02 team went 6-13 in the first 19 and eventually 6-16 in the first 22 games.
• The Tar Heels are 1-4 on the road this season with a win at UNCW and losses at Gonzaga, Virginia, Pitt and Virginia Tech.

LINEUP CHALLENGES
• The Tar Heels are 3-7 since leading scorer Cole Anthony was sidelined with a right knee injury.
• Carolina has started seven different lineups. 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 four 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).
• Seven different Tar Heels have combined to miss a total of 61 games due to injury thus far this season: Sterling Manley (all 19 games– left knee surgery on 12/12/19); Anthony Harris (14– 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 (10 games– the first eight due to a left knee injury from high school and the Clemson and Miami games due to soreness in the left knee); Cole Anthony (last 10 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 61 missed games are already 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.

B-ROB B-BALLIN'
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson leads the team in three-pointers (39) and assists (43) and is third in scoring (13.3).
• Robinson has scored 20 or more points three times in his last six games, establishing a new career high with each. He had 20 against Yale on Dec. 30, 27 vs. Clemson on Jan. 11 and 27 vs. Miami on Jan. 25.
• He had career highs in field goals (11) and three-pointers (6) vs. the Canes.
• Robinson is the first Tar Heel to have a career high of 11 points in his first three seasons and score 20 or more points three times as a senior.
• Theo Pinson had a career high of 13 through his junior season and had three 20-point games as a senior. Robinson and Pinson are the only Tar Heels to not score 15 points in any game in their first three seasons and have three 20-point games as a senior.
• Robinson scored in double figures two times in his first 106 games and in 10 of 14 games this season.
• Robinson's 39 threes this season are already the most in a season in his collegiate career (23 last year) and are half his career total.
• The Douglasville, Ga., native averaged 2.3 points over his first three seasons but is averaging 13.3 this year.
• He's made 29 three-pointers in his last seven games (three vs. UCLA, five vs. Yale, four vs. Georgia Tech, three vs. Pitt, five vs. Clemson, three at Pitt and six vs. Miami).
• He 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 of this season due to a sprained ankle.

GARRISON AMONG THE ACC'S BEST
• Junior forward Garrison Brooks is second in the ACC in field goal percentage (.541), third in rebounding (9.2) and 10th in scoring (15.1).
• Brooks, Notre Dame's John Mooney 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 (10.0), third in scoring (17.9) and third in field goal percentage (.545).
• Brooks is the only ACC player in the top five in those categories in conference play.
• The LaFayette, Ala., native is averaging 34.6 minutes per game, most by a Tar Heel since point guard Marcus Paige averaged 35.6 in 2013-14.
• The 34.6 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 10 games without injured point guard Cole Anthony, Brooks is averaging 18.3 points and 10.1 rebounds in 36.0 minutes per game.
• Brooks netted a career-high 35 points on Jan. 4 vs. Georgia Tech and had double-doubles in six consecutive games, a streak that came to end against Miami when he had 14 points and five rebounds.
• That streak of six games with a double-double was 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).

BACOT'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES
• Freshman Armando Bacot registered his seventh double-double in points and rebounds.
• He's the first Tar Heel freshman with seven double-doubles since Antawn Jamison set the freshman record with 13 in 1995-96.
• Bacot had 19 points, 12 rebounds and a season- and game-high seven assists against Miami.
• He became the first Tar Heel to have at least 19 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in a game since Lee Dedmon had 20/13/7 against Clemson in 1971. Dennis Wuycik and Charlie Scott are the only other Tar Heels to ever reach each of those marks in a game.
• His 8.0 rebounds are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Sean May (8.1) in 2002-03.

UNC'S FRESHMAN DOUBLE-DOUBLES
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81
7 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 came into the weekend first in the nation in rebounds per game (now 43.6), fifth in offensive rebounds per game (14.0) and 11th in rebound margin (+9.4). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 14.3 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. NC STATE
• The Tar Heels lead the series, 158-78, winning 30 of the last 34 and 47 of the last 58 games against the Wolfpack.
• Roy Williams is 35-4 as a head coach against NC State, including a 5-0 record at Kansas and a 30-4 mark at Carolina.
• Carolina is 66-46 against NC State in Raleigh, including 16-4 in PNC Arena.
• Carolina has won six in a row over NC State in PNC Arena.
• Carolina is 20-4 overall in PNC Arena, including a pair of NCAA first and second round wins in 2008 and 2016 en route to Final Four appearances.

JAN. 8, 2019 IN RALEIGH
UNC 90, NC STATE 82
• Carolina beat NC State in Raleigh for the sixth straight time.
• Carolina won despite committing 23 turnovers, the most in a road win since 2/2/2006 at Maryland. It was the first time UNC won a road game with 20 or more turnovers since Ty Lawson hit a buzzer-beating three at Florida State on 1/28/2009.
• All five UNC starters scored in double figures.
• Luke Maye (21/11), Cameron Johnson (15/11) and Kenny Williams (15/10) had double-doubles. It was the first time three Tar Heels had double-doubles since the 2012 NCAA Sweet 16 against Ohio (Tyler Zeller, John Henson and Reggie Bullock).
• The game was tied twice – at 47 and 53. Both times, Johnson broke the tie with a three-pointer. He was fouled and converted a four-point play on the first occasion.
• Garrison Brooks had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

FEB. 5, 2019 IN CHAPEL HILL
UNC 113, NC STATE 96
• Carolina swept the regular-season series against NC State for the 12th time in 16 seasons under Roy Williams.
• The 113 points were the most ever by the Tar Heels in 236 games against NC State and were the second most allowed in any game in NC State history.
• The 113 points were the most by UNC in an ACC game since 12/20/2003 when UNC lost in triple overtime to Wake Forest, 119-114, and the most points by UNC in a regulation-length ACC game since UNC scored 115 vs. Clemson on 1/13/1968.
• Carolina shot a season-high 56.1 percent from the floor.
• Senior forward Luke Maye had 31 points and 12 rebounds. It was his third 30-point game against NC State, becoming the first Tar Heel to ever score 30 points three different times against NC State.
• Garrison Brooks had career highs in rebounds (10) and assists (6), scored eight points and had no turnovers.
• Coby White had 21 points and four assists.

ROY NOW FOURTH ALL-TIME IN WINS WITH 880
• Carolina's win over Miami on Jan. 25 was the 880th career win for Roy Williams.
• That moved Williams into sole possession of fourth place in wins by a Division I head coach with 880, breaking a tie with UNC's Dean Smith, for whom Williams served as an assistant coach from 1978-88.
• The win also moved Roy Williams ahead of former Maryland head coach Gary Williams for third place for wins by an ACC head coach. Roy Williams now has 462 wins as UNC's head coach.
• Williams passed Jim Calhoun (873) and Adolph Rupp (876) and Smith (879) this season in wins by a Division I head coach.

MOST WINS BY A DIVISION I HEAD COACH
1148 Mike Krzyzewski
959 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
880 Roy Williams
879 Dean Smith
876 Adolph Rupp
873 Jim Calhoun

MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1075 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
462 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech

SCORING/SHOOTING STORY
• Carolina scored a season-high 94 points in the win over Miami. It was just the third time this season UNC scored 80 or more points and the first time the Tar Heels won a game when it reached the 80-point mark.
• UNC's previous scoring high in a win was 78 against UNCW and Oregon.
• When UNC shot 58.0 percent from the floor against Miami in the 19th game, it marked the first time this season the Tar Heels shot 50 percent or better. That's the longest stretch to open a season before shooting 50 percent on record.
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.412) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season (.396) and its three-point percentage (.302) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring at 71.3 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 was not ranked in the January 20 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.

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Players Mentioned

Cole Anthony

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

Garrison Brooks

Jeremiah Francis

Anthony Harris

Cameron Johnson

Sterling Manley

Luke Maye

Andrew Platek

Brandon Robinson

K.J. Smith

Coby White

Kenny Williams