Men's Soccer Will Host Irish In ACC Quarterfinal Sunday

Sunday, November 15

Chapel Hill

2 PM

North Carolina

Notre Dame (ACC Quarterfinal)

November 11, 2020 | Men's Soccer

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ACC Tournament Quarterfinal
Matchup: North Carolina (3-1-2, 3-1-2 ACC) vs. Notre Dame (3-3, 2-2 ACC)
Date: Sunday Nov. 15, 2020
Site: Chapel Hill, N.C. (Dorrance Field)
Time: 2 p.m.
TV: ACC Network

• North Carolina will begin play in the 2020 ACC Tournament when it hosts Notre Dame on Sunday Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. at Dorrance Field.
• UNC is the No. 2 seed in the ACC's South Region. The Tar Heels are 3-1-2 this season (3-1-2 in the ACC) and are ranked No. 3 this week by the United Soccer Coaches, up a spot from No. 4 last week.
• Opening kick is scheduled for just after 2 p.m. The ACC Network will televise the game live.
• The Tar Heels closed the regular season last weekend with a 2-0 shutout of Duke in Chapel Hill.
• Notre Dame is coming off a 4-1 home win over Louisville that saw Jack Lynn post a hat trick with three goals.
• The winner of Sunday's game will advance to meet the winner of the Pitt-Duke game on Wednesday Nov. 18 at a site to be determined.

ACC Tournament Tidbits
• The eight-team tournament begins Sunday, Nov. 15, with quarterfinal matches on the campuses of Duke, UNC, NC State and Wake Forest.
• Carolina earned the No. 2 seed in the South Region and will host the No. 3 seed from the North Region, Notre Dame.
• Pitt and Wake Forest earned the top two seeds in the tournament by virtue of winning the North and South regions, respectively.
• Wake Forest will host Virginia, the No. 4 seed from the North.
• Virginia Tech claimed the No. 2 seed in the North Region, and the Hokies will play the No. 3 seed from the South Region, Clemson, in Durham, N.C.
• Currently the No. 1-ranked team in the nation, Pitt will battle Duke, the No. 4 seed from the South Region, in Raleigh, N.C.
• Sites and game times for the semifinal matches will be announced following the quarterfinals.

Carolina vs. Notre Dame
• Carolina and Notre Dame last met a season ago, with UNC winning in Chapel Hill.
• In that contest, UNC held the Irish to one shot on goal for a dominant 2-0 win.
• The Tar Heels out shot the Fighting Irish 15-7 in the game as Jelani Pieters recorded the game-winning goal in the 14th minute while Blake Malone doubled the lead in the 68th minute with his first collegiate goal.

UNC's ACC Tournament History
• Carolina has won three ACC Tournaments in its history, most recently during the 2011 NCAA championship season under then first-year head coach Carlos Somoano.
• The Tar Heels won the ACC Tournament in 1987, 2000 and 2011.
• Last year in the ACC Tournament, Carolina tied Syracuse in Chapel Hill, but the Orange advanced on penalty kicks, ending the Tar Heels' season.

Tar Heels Blank Duke, 2-0
• Carolina scored two second-half goals and shutout Duke, 2-0, on Nov. 6 in Chapel Hill.
• Giovanni Montesdeoca and Taff Wadda both scored goals after halftime as Carolina blanked the Blue Devils by a 2-0 score for a second time this season. UNC started the season a month earlier with a 2-0 win at Duke.
• UNC has won seven of the last eight meetings with Duke and is 14-2-2 in the last 18 meetings in the series.