Tar Heels To Visit Wolfpack Tuesday At 7 PM

GAME 8
• Carolina returns to action on Tuesday, December 22, when it opens Atlantic Coast Conference play at NC State.
• Tipoff is 7 p.m. on the ACC Network.
• UNC is 5-2 after a 75-63 win over Kentucky in Cleveland in the CBS Sports Classic. Armando Bacot led four Tar Heels in double figures with 14 points as Carolina rallied from a 38-34 halftime deficit to out-score the Wildcats, 41-25, in the second half.
• NC State is 4-1 after a 69-50 win over Campbell.
• Carolina and NC State are playing for the first time in November or December since 11/30/1979, a 97-84 Tar Heel victory in Greensboro in the Big Four Tournament.
• Carolina is sixth in the country in offensive rebound percentage, while NC State's defense is 204th in allowing offensive rebounds. Conversely, the Pack defense is third nationally in forcing turnovers (30.3 percent of possessions), while the Tar Heels are 245th in committing turnovers.

SERIES VS. NC STATE
• The Tar Heels lead the series, 160-78, winning 32 of the last 36 and 49 of the last 60 games against the Wolfpack.
• Roy Williams is 37-4 as a head coach against NC State, including a 5-0 record at Kansas and a 32-4 mark at Carolina.
• UNC is 67-46 against NC State in Raleigh, including 17-4 in PNC Arena (UNC is 21-4 overall in PNC Arena, including two NCAA Tournament wins in both 2008 and 2016).
• Including wins in their last three games at Reynolds Coliseum (1997-99), the Tar Heels have won 20 of the last 24 games against NC State in Raleigh.
• Last year's 75-65 win in Raleigh was the 15th win for Roy Williams at NC State in 17 seasons (the Wolfpack has beaten the Tar Heels 14 times in Chapel Hill in 67 seasons since the ACC began play in 1953-54).
• The win was the seventh win in a row for UNC at NC State, the Tar Heels' longest win streak at NCSU.

LAST SEASON IN RALEIGH
• Carolina swept the series in 2019-20. On 1/27/20, Garrison Brooks tied his career high en route to 25 points and 11 rebounds and Armando Bacot added 11 and 11 in UNC's 75-65 road win.
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson had 11 points and was a game-high plus-20, making 4 of 4 from the line in the final minute.
• Leaky Black scored 11 points, his second career double-figure scoring game.
• Andrew Platek scored eight points, one off his ACC career scoring high.

BROOKS VS. THE 'PACK
• Over the last two seasons (four games), senior forward Garrison Brooks has averaged 18.5 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists against NC State. Brooks was 26 for 43 from the floor (.605) and 22 of 26 from the free throw line (.846).
• As a sophomore, Brooks had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists at NC State and eight points, 10 boards and a career-high six assists in Chapel Hill.
• Last season, the Tar Heel captain went for 25 points, 11 rebounds and three assists in the win at NC State and 30 points, nine rebounds and an assist at home. He was 11 for 20 from the floor in Raleigh and 14 of 16 from the line in the Smith Center in last season's games.

TAR HEELS BEGIN ACC PLAY
• This is the 68th season of competition in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels have won the ACC regular-season title a record 32 times, including nine times in the previous 17 seasons under Roy Williams (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2019).
• Williams has the third-most regular-season championships in ACC history behind Dean Smith (17 in 36 seasons) and Mike Krzyzewski (12 in 40 seasons).
• Carolina is 705-290 in regular-season ACC games. The 705 wins are the most in ACC history.
• In the Roy Williams era, Carolina is 2-2 regular-season ACC games played before Christmas (December 25). Last year, UNC beat Notre Dame in the season opener on November 6, 2019, and lost at Virginia on December 8. On 12/19/2004, UNC beat Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., in the Hokies' first ACC game. On 12/20/2003, the Tar Heels lost to Wake Forest, 119-114 in triple overtime in the Smith Center in Williams' first ACC game as UNC's head coach.
• Carolina opens ACC play against NC State for the first time since 1/7/2006.
• This is the second time in three seasons UNC opens conference play with a pair of road games.

NOTABLE
• Carolina is in the middle of a three-game swing away from home (Kentucky in Cleveland, at NC State and at Georgia Tech on Dec. 30). UNC is scheduled to play at home just twice in the first nine games for the first time since the 2007-08 season. The Tar Heels played six consecutive neutral site or away games in November-December that season.

Balanced Scoring
• Garrison Brooks leads Carolina in scoring at 11.7 points per game. Armando Bacot is next at 11.4 and freshmen guards Caleb Love and RJ Davis are third and fourth at 11.1 and 10.0 points, respectively.
• The last time a Tar Heel led the team in scoring with less than 12 points a game was 1946-47, when Jim Hamilton averaged 11.4 points.

Freshmen Point Guards
• Carolina has started a freshman point guard to begin each of the last three seasons (Coby White in 2018-19, Cole Anthony in 2019-20 and Caleb Love in 2020-21).
• Freshmen point guards are nothing new under Roy Williams. This is the eight time in Williams' 18 seasons at UNC a freshman has started at the point for at least a majority of the season: Bobby Frasor in 2005-06, Ty Lawson in 2006-07, Kendall Marshall in 2010-11, Marcus Paige in 2012-13, Nate Britt in 2013-14, Coby White in 2018-19, Cole Anthony in 2019-20.

First-Half Deficits
• Kentucky led UNC, 38-34, at the half before the Tar Heels out-scored the Cats by 16 in the second half. The opponents have out-scored UNC by a combined 16 points in the first half, but the Tar Heels have outscored the opponents by 69 points in the second half (9.9 per game).
• Carolina is 2-2 this year when trailing at halftime with wins over Stanford and Kentucky.
• Carolina has fallen behind by double digits in the first half in five of its first seven games and rallied back to take the lead in all five, beating UNLV, NC Central and Kentucky but eventually losing to Texas and Iowa.
– UNLV led 13-0, but the Tar Heels took their first lead with 3:24 to play in the half and led by seven at the break.
– UNC trailed both the Longhorns and Hawkeyes by 16 in the first half. Against Texas, Carolina went ahead for the first time with 2:35 remaining in the game. At Iowa, the Tar Heels grabbed one-point leads with 9:52 and 9:30 to play in the game. Iowa went on a 16-2 run after UNC took its first lead to pull away.
– NC Central led 19-8 before the Tar Heels closed the half on a 22-9 run to lead by two at intermission.
– Kentucky also led 19-8. Carolina took a 29-27 lead on an RJ Davis three-pointer, but the Cats outscored UNC 11-5 over the final four minutes of the half to lead 38-34 at the break. Kentucky extended that lead to six with 13:15 to play. UNC then held UK without a field goal for 9:11 to take a six-point lead.

Rebounding
• Four Tar Heels are averaging at least seven rebounds per game – Armando Bacot (8.7), Garrison Brooks (7.4), Leaky Black (7.3) and Day'Ron Sharpe (7.3).
• UNC has never had a season when four players averaged 7.0 rebounds per game. The last time even three players did that was 1969-70 (9.4 by Lee Dedmon, 8.6 by Charlie Scott and 7.5 by Dennis Wuycik).
• The Tar Heels are averaging 45.4 rebounds, including 16.0 offensive rebounds, per game.
• The school record for offensive rebounds per game is 15.8 in 2016-17.
• Carolina is averaging 20.3 second-chance points per game. The Tar Heels scored 13 of their 41 second-half points against Kentucky on second-chance opportunities.
• This is the seventh consecutive season UNC is averaging at least 40 rebounds per game (the 14th time in Roy Williams' 18 seasons as UNC's head coach).
• Kentucky was the first team to out-rebound the Tar Heels this season (42-38). Despite that, UNC's rebound margin of plus 12.7 per game is on pace to top the previous school record of +12.3 in 2016-17.
• Carolina has finished first, first, first and second in the nation in rebounds per game in the last four seasons and in the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in each of the last six seasons.
• Day'Ron Sharpe and Armando Bacot and lead UNC in rebounds per 40 minutes at 15.7 and 14.8, respectively.
• Carolina is sixth nationally in offensive rebound percentage, grabbing 41.3 percent of its own missed shots. Bacot is 29th and Sharpe 33rd nationally in offensive rebound percentage.

Brooks the 78th Tar Heel to Score 1,000
• Garrison Brooks scored his 1,000th career point in the win over UNLV on November 30. 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.
• The LaFayette, Ala., native has 1,073 points, 72nd most by a Tar Heel. Jerry Stackhouse is 71st (1,080). Next up among four-year players is Dante Calabria (1,098).
• 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

Four-Year Starters
• Garrison Brooks is the 20th Tar Heel to start regularly in 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 890-255, including 472-154 at Carolina.
• He has the fourth-most wins by a Division I head coach behind Mike Krzyzewski (1,160), Jim Boeheim (970) and Bob Knight (902). He needs 10 wins for 900 and 13 to pass Knight.
• Williams is the only coach to win 400 games at two schools (470 at UNC, 418 at Kansas).
• Williams has the third-most regular-season ACC wins all-time (202), the second-highest winning percentage in ACC road games all-time (621), the third-most ACC road wins all-time (90) ands the fifth-highest winning percentage in ACC regular-season games (.697).

AP Poll
• Carolina climbed five spots to No. 17 in the December 21 Associated Press poll.
• UNC is ranked for the 928th time in the 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 (Philadelphia); 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 Enter College Hall of Fame
• 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).

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Players Mentioned

Cole Anthony

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

Garrison Brooks

RJ Davis

Cameron Johnson

Puff Johnson

Creighton Lebo

Nassir Little

Caleb Love

Luke Maye

Ryan McAdoo

Walker Miller

Andrew Platek

Brandon Robinson

Day'Ron Sharpe

K.J. Smith

Coby White

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