Tar Heels To Host Eagles On Saturday Night

CHAPEL HILL–North Carolina will look to extend its two-game winning streak when it hosts Boston College on Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Smith Center. The ACC Network will televise the game nationally.

GAME 21 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 10-10 overall, including 3-6 in ACC play. The Tar Heels have won two in a row, a home win over Miami a week ago and a 75-65 win at NC State on Jan. 27.
• Boston College is 10-11 overall, 4-6 in the ACC. The Eagles have conference wins over Notre Dame, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest. BC is coming off a home loss to Louisville.
• Carolina is 199-80 in 279 regular-season ACC games under 17th-year head coach Roy Williams. Dean Smith won his 200th in 278 games and Mike Krzyzewski won his 200th in his 296th ACC game. Smith and Krzyzewski are currently the only coaches to win 200 regular-season ACC games.
• Carolina's win over NC State in Raleigh was its 15th in 17 seasons under Williams. By comparison, NC State has defeated the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill 14 times in 66 previous seasons of ACC Basketball.
• Williams is 36-4 against NC State (31-4 at UNC, 5-0 at Kansas). The 36 wins against NC State equal the most by Williams against any opponent. His teams are also a combined 36-4 against Kansas State (35-4 while at KU and 1-0 as UNC's head coach).
• Williams is 30-2 all-time at Kansas State (15-0 as Kansas's head coach) and NC State (15-2).
• The 31 wins over NC State are the most for Williams at UNC. Clemson is second, as his UNC teams have beaten the Tigers 21 times.

TWO IN A ROW
• Carolina has won its last two games. In those games, the Tar Heels have averaged 84.5 points, shot 54.0 percent from the floor, had a rebound margin of plus-15.5 and were plus-18 in assist/turnovers. Defensively, UNC allowed Miami and NC State to score 68.0 points and shoot 41.9 percent from the floor and 22.7 percent from three. UNC made 12 threes to their opponents 10.
• The Tar Heels have shot 50 percent from the floor in four of the last six halves (last three games). They had made 50 percent from the floor in four of their first 34 halves (over the first 17 games).
• UNC did not shoot 50 percent from the floor in the first half in any of its initial 17 games this season, but has shot 51.6 in the first half at Virginia Tech, 55.0 vs. Miami and 53.3 at NC State.
• 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 Miami. 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.

LINEUP CHALLENGES
• The Tar Heels are 4-7 since leading scorer Cole Anthony was sidelined with a right knee injury.
• Anthony practiced on Thursday, Jan. 30. He is probable for the Boston College game. A transcript of Roy Williams' comments at a Jan. 31 press conference on Anthony's status is on page 5 of these notes.
• 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 five games at the point. He was the fourth Tar Heel 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).
• Francis is questionable for the BC game.
• Seven different Tar Heels have combined to miss a total of 65 games due to injury thus far this season: Sterling Manley (all 20 games– left knee surgery on 12/12/19); Anthony Harris (15– including the first eight games due to left knee injury from high school, and seven games after right knee surgery on 1/4/2020); Jeremiah Francis (11 games– the first eight due to a left knee injury from high school and three of the last four games due to soreness in the left knee); Cole Anthony (last 11 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 65 missed games are the most in a season by scholarship players in the Roy Williams Era. The previous highs were 64 in 2008-09 and 63 in 2011-12.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 second in the ACC in field goal percentage (.542), third in rebounding (9.3) and 10th in scoring (15.6).
• Brooks, Notre Dame's John Mooney, Duke's Vernon Carey and Louisville's Jordan Nwora 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 (10.1), third in scoring (18.7) 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 34.8 minutes per game, most by a Tar Heel since point guard Marcus Paige averaged 35.6 in 2013-14.
• The 34.8 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).
• He played a career-high 48 minutes the double overtime loss at Virginia Tech.
• In the 11 games without injured point guard Cole Anthony, Brooks is averaging 18.9 points and 10.2 rebounds in 36.1 minutes per game.
• Brooks netted a career-high 35 points on Jan. 4 vs. Georgia Tech and has double-doubles in seven of the last eight. He had a run of six straight double-doubles, the longest by a Tar Heel since John Henson's nine in a row in 2011.
• Brooks has led UNC in scoring, rebounding and assists in two of the last three games, at Virginia Tech and at NC State.

B-ROB BANGED UP BUT STILL PRODUCTIVE
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson had x-rays taken immediately after the game at NC State on Jan. 27. He both took an elbow to the ribs and tweaked his right ankle in the first half and had to leave the game several times, but he returned each time and made four clutch free throws in the final minute to clinch the victory.
• Robinson leads the team in three-pointers (39), is tied for the lead in assists (43) and is third in scoring (13.1).
• The Douglasville, Ga., native averaged 2.3 points over his first three seasons but is averaging 13.1 this year. Last year, he scored 3.4 per game and this season is averaging 9.7 more per game, the third-highest increase from one season to the next in the Roy Williams Era at Carolina.
• The only higher scoring increases from one year to the next are by Reyshawn Terry and Luke Maye. Terry improved 12.0 per game (from 2.3 in 2004-05 to 14.3 in 2005-06); Maye improved by 11.3 (5.5 in 2016-17 to 16.9 in 2017-18).
• Robinson has scored 20 or more points three times in his last seven 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 11 of 15 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.
• He made three or more 3FGs in seven straight games (a streak snapped at NC State), equaling the second-longest such streak in Carolina history (three or more in eight straight games by Donald Williams in the 1993 postseason and seven in a row by Dante Calabria in 1996).

SCORING INCREASES
12.1 – Donald Williams
(2.2 in 1991-92 to 14.3 in 1992-93)
12.0 – Larry Brown
(4.5 in 1960-61 to 16.5 in 1961-62)
12.0 – Reyshawn Terry
(2.3 in 2004-05 to 14.3 in 2005-06)
11.3 – Luke Maye
(5.5 in 2016-17 to 16.9 in 2017-18)
10.9 – Coy Carson
(4.4 in 1947-48 to 15.3 in 1948-49)
10.2 – Donnie Walsh
(3.2 in 1960-61 to 13.4 in 1961-62)
10.1 – Bill Bunting
(7.9 in 1967-68 to 18.0 in 1968-69)
9.7 – Brandon Robinson
(3.4 in 2018-19 to 13.1 in 2019-20)

BACOT'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES
• Freshman Armando Bacot has eight double-doubles in points and rebounds, including three of the last four games.
• He's the first Tar Heel freshman with eight 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 8.1 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
8 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 (43.6), are fifth in rebound margin (+9.5) and sixth in offensive rebounds per game (14.0). 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. BOSTON COLLEGE
• Carolina leads the series with Boston College, 18-5, including 16-4 since the Eagles joined the ACC.
• Carolina is 6-2 against the Eagles in Chapel Hill, all of which have been played in the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have won the last 12 games and the 16 of the last 18 against the Eagles.
• Roy Williams is 16-4 against Boston College (all while head coach at UNC).

LAST SEASON AT BC
UNC 79, BOSTON COLLEGE 66
• Cameron Johnson had 22 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists and Luke Maye had a career-high 20 rebounds plus 17 points and five assists.
• It was the final ACC road game of the year as Carolina finished undefeated with a 9-0 record.
• Carolina had 60 rebounds, which tied its season high.

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.
• Williams is now 881-244.
• He is fourth all-time in wins by a Division I head coach with 881. UNC's Dean Smith, for whom Williams served as an assistant coach from 1978-88, is fifth with 879.
• Roy Williams is also third in wins by an ACC head coach. Roy Williams now has 463 wins as UNC's head coach. Gary Williams (Maryland) is fourth with 461.
• 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
1149 Mike Krzyzewski
959 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
881 Roy Williams
879 Dean Smith
876 Adolph Rupp
873 Jim Calhoun

MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1076 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
463 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech

SCORING/SHOOTING/STREAKS
• 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 was the longest stretch to open a season before shooting 50 percent on record.
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.416) is its lowest since the 1959-60 season (.413) and its three-point percentage (.300) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is ninth in the ACC in scoring at 71.5 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.
• The win over Miami on Jan. 25 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 is 3-6 in ACC play for the second time (also in 2002-03). UNC was 2-7 through nine league games in 2001-02 and 2009-10.
• Carolina's 10 losses in its first 20 games are the most since the 2001-02 team went 6-14 in the first 20 and eventually 6-16 in the first 22 games.

MEDIA POLLING
• Carolina was not ranked in the January 27 Associated Press poll for the seventh 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.

ROY WILLIAMS ON COLE ANTHONY'S STATUS:
(Friday, Jan. 31, 2020)
"Yesterday we allowed him to go five-on-five, and he probably went 25 to 35 percent of practice. I didn't time it or anything, I'm just giving you my gut feeling. If he feels alright today, we'll probably let him do at least that [in practice Friday], and if he feels alright tomorrow when we come in for shootaround there's a probability that we play him tomorrow.
"All the stuff he's been doing has been one on zero. He's shot a lot, I've given him some shooting drills challenging him how long it takes him to make 125 threes, so he's really worked it. We'll just have to wait and see how he feels today. We're at almost the (seven)-week point, so I feel a heck of a lot more comfortable than I did before.
"He's dying to try to play, so we'll see what happens. If he comes in today and says he's sore, then he's not going to play. If he comes in today and says he feels great and handles it well then I'd say it's a probability I'll play him."

On if there might be a limit on Anthony's minutes if he does play:
"I have no idea. I'll watch how he runs up and down the court, how well he's playing. He's not going to play 40 minutes. It just depends on how he looks, how rusty he looks, how clean he looks, how sharp he looks and of course his conditioning.
"Of course with his conditioning, they've been working him pretty doggone hard, whether it's in the swimming pool or the weight room. He's a pretty highly conditioned athlete anyway."

On how Anthony has handled wanting to play but being unable to do so:
"I think he's been responsible, I think our trainer [Doug Halverson] has been responsible, I think everybody has tried to look at the big picture and see what's best. He's an athlete I have a tremendous amount of respect for and trust in what he's saying about how he feels. It hasn't been easy for him, he wants to play, he likes to play – but he's been very cooperative in every situation we've possibly had."

On potential challenges of teammates adjusting him back into the lineup:
"Nobody knows. We've got good kids who look at the big picture and look at the team. He looks at the team. Ryan Kelly [of Duke], who sat out a long time, came back and had 36 points in his first game. Raef LaFrentz sat out an extra week for me [at Kansas], came back and had 32 his first game. I've had other guys come back who didn't play very well in their first game. We'll just have to wait and see on all of that.
"He's a good teammate, his teammates care about him and understand what's going on. I'm not saying it's going to be the smoothest ride, but nobody knows until you get into it."

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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

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