Carolina Will Open 2020-21 Vs. College Of Charleston Wednesday

Wednesday, November 25

Chapel Hill

6 PM

North Carolina

College of Charleston

Leaky Black

Carolina Will Open 2020-21 Vs. College Of Charleston Wednesday

November 24, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 1
• Carolina opens the 2020-21 season against the College of Charleston on Wednesday, November 25, at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Tip time is 6 p.m.
• The Tar Heels return three starters and six other players from last season's team that went 14-19 overall and 6-14 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
• Carolina returns 52.1 percent of its scoring from a year ago. Four Tar Heels who scored 100 or more points return, including senior Garrison Brooks (539 points last year), sophomore Armando Bacot (308), junior Leaky Black (208) and senior Andrew Platek (121).
• The November 25 opener is the latest season opener since UNC beat Texas in Chapel Hill on Nov. 26, 1994.
• Carolina is 98-12 in season openers, including 16-1 under head coach Roy Williams.
• The Tar Heels have won their last 15 season openers (last loss was the 2004-05 opener against Santa Clara in Oakland, Calif.).

VS. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
• Carolina is 4-3 against the College of Charleston, including 2-0 in the Smith Center.
• Roy Williams is 2-1 against the College of Charleston, all while head coach of the Tar Heels.
• UNC defeated the Cougars, 74-69, in the last meeting on Nov. 28, 2010, in Chapel Hill. John Henson had 19 points as the only Tar Heel to score in double figures. Harrison Barnes scored nine and Tyler Zeller added eight points and 10 rebounds. Andrew Goudelock scored a game-high 28 for the College of Charleston.

AP POLL
• Carolina is ranked No. 16 in the preseason Associated Press poll.
• Last season, UNC was ranked ninth in the preseason poll and remained in the next five weeks before falling out of the poll for the first time since midway through 2013-14.
• This is the 15th consecutive season in which UNC is ranked in the top 25 in the preseason poll. The Tar Heels have appeared in the preseason AP rankings in 50 of the last 55 seasons since 1966.
• The preseason ranking marked the 924th time Carolina was ranked in an AP poll, which is more than any other school in college basketball history (Kentucky is second with 919).
• The Tar Heels have now been ranked at some point in 64 of 73 seasons in the history of the AP poll.
• The preseason ranking marked the 514th time in 600 polls a Roy Williams team was ranked in the AP top 25. It was the 271st time in the poll as UNC's head coach.

PRESEASON HONORS
• Senior forward Garrison Brooks and freshman guard Caleb Love are two of 50 players on the Naismith Trophy's preseason list (National Player of the Year). Brooks is also on the preseason list for the NABC Player of the Year award.
• Brooks was selected by the media as the ACC's Preseason Player of the Year. He was the ACC's Most Improved Player and earned second-team All-ACC honors in 2019-20.
• Brooks is a first-team preseason All-America by Jay Bilas, second team by The Athletic and Dick Vitale and third-team by CBS. ESPN named him the fifth-best player in the country.
• Sophomore Armando Bacot and freshman Walker Kessler are on the Basketball Hall of Fame's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award list as the top post player in the country.
• Brooks is a candidate for the Karl Malone Award (best power forward).
• Love was listed by The Athletic among the top 20 guards in the country and Lindy's named the St. Louis native one of the best freshman shooters and playmakers in the ACC and a third-team preseason All-ACC selection.
• Lindy's named Freshman guard R.J. Davis the best freshman shooter in the ACC, one of the best rookie playmakers and a third-team preseason All-ACC selection.
• Freshman Puff Johnson was on Lindy's list of the best freshman shooters in the nation.

NEARING 1,000
• Garrison Brooks enters the season with 991 career points. He is nine points shy of becoming the 78th player to score 1,000 points as a Tar Heel. The most recent 1,000-point scorer was Luke Maye, who reached that figure in 2018-19.
• Brooks scored 167 points in 37 games as a freshman, 285 in 36 as a sophomore and 539 in 32 games in 2019-20.
• He led the ACC in scoring in conference play last season with 18.8 points per game.
• Cameron Johnson also scored his 1,000th collegiate point in 2018-19, but he had scored 583 in three seasons at Pittsburgh (he scored 931 in two seasons as a Tar Heel).
• Carolina holds the NCAA record with 77 1,000-point scorers. Louisville is second with 69.

Most 1,000-POINT SCORERS
All Schools
North Carolina 77
Louisville 69
Duke 67
Villanova 67
Notre Dame 64
Syracuse 63
Kansas 62
Kentucky 60
Ohio State 58
LaSalle 57
St. Joseph's 57
UCLA 57
Rhode Island 57

UPON FURTHER REVIEW – 1,000 HOME WINS
• Research in the off-season found six additional home wins, which brought UNC's all-time home record to 1,000 wins in 1,191 games.
• Two of the wins came in 1919, in addition to wins in 1922, 1939, 1940 and 1941. A 1919 win over the Leaksville YMCA actually added a game and a win to UNC's all-time record, which now stands at 2,276-818 entering the 2020-21 season.
• The other five games were historically listed as away games, but research confirmed they were in fact played at home.

FOUR-YEAR STARTERS
• Garrison Brooks should become the 20th Tar Heel to start for at least a large portion of four different seasons, the first since Kennedy Meeks (2013-17) and the fourth to do so in the Roy Williams era (with Tyler Hansbrough from 2005-09, Marcus Paige from 2012-16 and Meeks).
• Only 13 Tar Heels have started for most of four seasons since freshmen became eligible to play in 1972-73 (Walter Davis, Phil Ford, Mike O'Koren, Sam Perkins, Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith, Jeff Lebo, Ademola Okulaja, Jason Capel, Kris Lang, Hansbrough, Paige and Meeks).

FAMILY TIES
• Five Tar Heels on the active roster this season have brothers or fathers who played at UNC, including senior Walker Miller (brother of Wes Miller), senior K.J. Smith (son of Kenny Smith), junior Ryan McAdoo (son of Bob McAdoo), freshman Puff Johnson (brother of Cameron Johnson) and freshman Creighton Lebo (son of Jeff Lebo).

ROY'S 48TH SEASON IN COACHING
• The 2020-21 season is Roy Williams' 18th as head coach of the Tar Heels, 33rd as a collegiate head coach (15 years at Kansas), 43rd in college coaching (10 years as an assistant to Dean Smith at UNC) and 48th in coaching (five years at Owen High School in Asheville).
• Williams has an all-time head coaching record in college of 885-253, including 467-152 at Carolina.
• He has the fourth-most wins by a Division I head coach behind Mike Krzyzewski (1,157), Jim Boeheim (964) and Bob Knight (902). He needs 15 wins to reach 900 and 18 to pass Knight.
• Williams is the only coach to win 400 games at two schools.
• Carolina is 17-0 in home openers under Williams.

AT HOME IN THE DOME
• This is the 36th season the Tar Heels will play its home games in the Dean E. Smith Center. That's 10 more season than UNC's next longest tenure at a home venue (26 seasons in Woollen Gym from 1939-65).
• Carolina is 426-80 (.842) in the Smith Center, including 208-17 (.924) against non-ACC opponents.
• The Tar Heels went 7-7 in the Smith Center last season. The seven losses were the most by UNC in one season (had lost six in the previous four seasons combined).

2020 SIGNEES
• D'Marco Dunn, a 6-5 guard from Tucson, Ariz., and Dontrez Styles, a 6-7 wing from Kinston, N.C., signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Tar Heels.
• Dunn moved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 2019 where he plays at Westover High School for Coach George Stackhouse. He led Westover to a 30-0 record and conference title. Westover was named co-state champions by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association after the post-season tournament was canceled due to the pandemic.
• Dunn was an all-state selection in 2020 and was named PAC 9 Conference, Cumberland County and District Player of the Year. He previously attended Marana High School in Tucson for two years before moving to Fayetteville prior to his junior year.
• Styles played for Coach Perry Tyndall at Kinston High School. He averaged 19.7 points and 11 rebounds as a junior when he led Kinston to a 26-4 record (his teams were 72-16 over the last three seasons).
• A four-time honor roll student, Styles was the 2019-20 Eastern Conference Player of the Year, a three-time all-conference selection, all-state honoree and an all-tournament pick at the John Wall Holiday Invitational.

NEXT: SURF'S UP IN ASHEVILLE
• Carolina returns to action November 30-December 2 at the Camping World Maui Invitational, which will be played at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, N.C., due to the pandemic.
• The Tar Heels play UNLV in the quarterfinals at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 30. Alabama or Stanford will be the opponent on day two; Davidson, Indiana, Providence and Texas are on the other side of the bracket.
• Carolina has won the Maui Invitational four times (1999-2000 under head coach Bill Guthridge and 2004-05, 2008-09 and 2016-17 under Roy Williams).
• Williams, a native of Asheville, also won the Maui Invitational in 1996-97 as head coach at Kansas. His teams are 18-2 in the Maui Invitational (5-1 at KU, 13-1 at UNC).
• Carolina is 20-3 in the Maui Invitational (18-3 in Maui and 2-0 in Chapel Hill).
• These will be Carolina's first games in Asheville since beating UNC Asheville to open Kimmel Arena on Nov. 13, 2011.

NBA TAR HEELS (as of November 23)
Cole Anthony, Orlando; Harrison Barnes, Sacramento; Tony Bradley, Detroit; Reggie Bullock, New York; Ed Davis, Minnesota; Danny Green, Philadelphia; John Henson, Detroit; Justin Jackson, Oklahoma City; Cameron Johnson, Phoenix; Nassir Little, Portland; Theo Pinson, New York; Coby White, Chicago.