Tar Heels Vs. Texas For Maui Invitational Title

Wednesday, December 2

Asheville, N.C.

4 PM

North Carolina

Texas

Day'Ron Sharpe

December 2, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 4
• Carolina plays Texas in the championship game of the 2020 Camping World Maui Invitational on Wednesday, December 2, at 4 p.m.
• Carolina defeated UNLV and Stanford to get to the finals, while the Longhorns knocked off Davidson and Indiana to advance.
• A win would give Carolina its first regular-season tournament title since the Maui Invitational in the 2016-17 season. It would be Carolina's fifth title in Maui – the only regular-season title UNC has won more is the event Raycom held under multiple names in Charlotte from 1988 to the early 2000s, which the Tar Heels won seven times.
• Due to the pandemic, the Maui Invitational is being played in Asheville, N.C., in the Harrah's Cherokee Center.
• Carolina is 4-0 in Asheville. The Tar Heels also beat UNC Asheville in the Civic Center on 12/28/95 and at Kimmel Arena on 11/13/11.
• Roy Williams grew up in Asheville, where he attended T.C. Roberson High School and began his coaching career at Owen High School.
• The Tar Heels are ranked No. 14 in the nation in the Associated Press poll.

TAR HEELS & THE MAUI INVITATIONAL
• This is Carolina's eighth appearance in the Maui Invitational (1989-90, 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2004-05, 2008-09, 2012-13, 2016-17 and 2020-21).
• Carolina has advanced to the finals of the Maui Invitational for the seventh time.
• UNC is 4-2 in Maui finals.
• 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 also won the Maui Invitational in 1996-97 as head coach at Kansas. His teams are 20-2 in the Maui Invitational (5-1 at KU, 14-1 at UNC).
• Carolina is 22-3 in the Maui Invitational (18-3 in Maui, 2-0 in Chapel Hill and 2-0 in Asheville).
• Shooting guard Joseph Forte (1999-00) and point guards Raymond Felton (2004-05), Ty Lawson (2008-09) and Joel Berry II (2016-17) have won MVP honors in the Maui Invitational.

VS. TEXAS
• Carolina is 3-8 against Texas. The Longhorns are one of only 10 teams that have played UNC multiple times and have a winning record against the Tar Heels.
• Among teams that have played UNC 10 or more times Texas the highest winning percentage against Carolina.
• The Longhorns have won the last four games against UNC and seven of eight against UNC under Roy Williams.
• The teams last met in Las Vegas on 11/22/18, a 92-89 Texas win despite 33 points by UNC freshman Coby White. Garrison Brooks had nine points and eight rebounds.
• The last three games have been decided by a total of eight points (three, two and three points).
• Carolina's last win over Texas came on 12/21/11 in Chapel Hill.
• Williams went 6-1 against Texas while at Kansas and is 7-8 all-time versus the Longhorns.

EARLY TRENDS
• Carolina's top two scorers through three games are freshmen guards Caleb Love (13.0) and RJ Davis (12.7). Love (Charleston and Stanford) and Davis (UNLV) have led UNC in scoring in each of the first three games.
• Carolina has yet to score 80 points in a game, but is allowing only 58 points per contest with a high of 63 by Stanford.
• The Tar Heel defense has held the opposition to a combined 28.4 percent shooting from the floor in the second half. The opponents have made 27 of 95 field goal attempts in the second half (11 of 29 by Charleston, 6 of 36 by UNLV and 10 of 30 by Stanford).
• UNC has outscored the opponents by 10 points in the first half (3.3 per game) and 40 points in the second (13.3 per game).
• The Tar Heels are averaging 48.7 rebounds, including 17.0 offensive rebounds per game.
• UNC has a rebound margin of plus 18.0 per game.
• Carolina has finished first, first, first and second in the nation in rebounds per game in the last four seasons and the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in each of the last six seasons.
• UNC has 34 assists and 49 turnovers. Freshmen guards Caleb Love (10/9) and Kerwin Walton (5/2) are the only players with more assists than turnovers.
• UNC is averaging 6.3 blocked shots. Last year the Tar Heels swatted away 3.5 shots per game.
• Freshman center Day'Ron Sharpe leads UNC with six blocks; point guard Caleb Love is second with four.

ELON GAME POSTPONED
• Carolina's second and final non-conference home game was slated for December 12 against Elon, but the Phoenix announced on December 1 it was pausing all in-season activities due to a positive Covid-19 test within its Tier 1 personnel group, which includes student-athletes, coaches, and support staff.
• No decision has yet been made on a makeup date or other change in the UNC schedule due to this pause in Elon's program.

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 center 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.

1,000 FOR BROOKS, 78TH TAR HEEL
• Garrison Brooks scored his 1,000th career point in the win over UNLV. He is the 78th player to score 1,000 points as a Tar Heel and the first to do so since 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.
• Carolina holds the NCAA record with 78 1,000-point scorers. Louisville is second with 69.

Most 1,000-POINT SCORERS
North Carolina 78
Louisville 69
Villanova 68
Duke 67
Notre Dame 64
Syracuse 63
Kansas 62
Kentucky 60
Ohio State 58
LaSalle 57
St. Joseph's 57
UCLA 57
Rhode Island 57

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 888-253, including 470-152 at Carolina.
• He has the fourth-most wins by a Division I head coach behind Mike Krzyzewski (1,158), Jim Boeheim (965) and Bob Knight (902). He needs 12 wins to reach 900 and 15 to pass Knight.
• Williams is the only coach to win 400 games at two schools (470 at UNC, 418 at Kansas).

AP POLL
• Carolina is ranked No. 14 in the 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 was 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 November 30 ranking is the 925th time Carolina is ranked in an AP poll, which is more than any other school in college basketball history (Kentucky is second with 920).
• The Tar Heels have now been ranked at some point in 64 of 73 seasons in the AP poll.

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 in 2019 to Fayetteville, N.C., 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 playoffs were 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.
• 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.
• 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.

2020-21 NBA TAR HEELS
Cole Anthony, Orlando; Harrison Barnes, Sacramento; Tony Bradley, Detroit; Reggie Bullock, New York; Ed Davis, Minnesota; Wayne Ellington, Detroit; Danny Green, Philadelphia; John Henson, Detroit; Justin Jackson, Oklahoma City; Cameron Johnson, Phoenix; Nassir Little, Portland; Theo Pinson, New York; Coby White, Chicago.

JAMISON TO JOIN COLLEGE BASKETBALL HALL
• Antawn Jamison will become the 12th Tar Heel player or coach enshrined in the NABC College Basketball Hall of Fame. He will join coaches Ben Carnevale, Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, Larry Brown (who played at UNC) and Roy Williams, and players Billy Cunningham, Bob McAdoo, James Worthy, Phil Ford, Charlie Scott and Sam Perkins.
• The Class of 2021 includes Jamison, the late Len Bias of Maryland, UCLA's David Greenwood, Bradley's Hersey Hawkins, Ohio State's Jim Jackson, Kansas's Paul Pierce (coached by Roy Williams) and coaches Rick Byrd and Tom Penders.
• Jamison was the 1998 National Player of the Year and first player in ACC history to earn first-team All-ACC honors as a freshman, sophomore and junior.
• Jamison was just the second Tar Heel and third player in ACC history to be named ACC Player of the Year, ACC Tournament MVP, NCAA Regional MVP and National Player of the Year in the same season (1997-98).