Tar Heels Visit Wake Forest On Tuesday Night

Tuesday, February 11

Winston-Salem, N.C.

8 PM

North Carolina

Wake Forest

Photo by: J.D. Lyon Jr.

February 11, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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Carolina will visit Wake Forest on Tuesday night in an Atlantic Coast Conference showdown at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The ACC Network will televise the game.

GAME 24 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 10-13 overall, including 3-9 in ACC play. The Tar Heels have lost three straight games by a total of nine points (71-70 to Boston College, 65-59 at No. 8 Florida State and 98-96 in overtime to No. 7 Duke).
• Dating back to a 79-77 double OT loss at Virginia Tech on Jan. 22, the Tar Heels' last four defeats have been by a combined 11 points.
• Carolina is 3-9 in the league through 12 games for the first time since 2010. Through a dozen games, UNC was 4-8 in 2003, 3-9 in 2010 and 2-10 in 2002. Through 13 ACC games, UNC was 3-10 in 2001-02, 4-9 in 2002-03 and 3-10 in 2009-10.
• This is the third time UNC has lost three or more games in a row this season (four in a row December 4-18, five in a row in January 8-22 and now three in a row February 1-8). UNC had only four in a row one time (in 2009-10) in the Roy Williams Era prior to this season.
• Carolina led Duke by 13 with 3:56 to play in regulation, but lost, 98-96, in overtime. The Tar Heels made just 5 of 12 free throws in the final 6:49 of regulation and 7 of 16 over the final 11:49. That was one of several ACC games in which UNC led or was close to the lead late in an ACC loss.
– on Jan 8, UNC led Pitt by 11 early in the second half but shot 36.7 percent while the Panthers made 8 of 12 threes and shot 58.3 percent from the floor in the second half as Pitt went on to win 73-65;
– on Jan. 11, Carolina led Clemson 68-58 with 1:56 to play, but the Tigers hit a 3FG with three seconds to play to tie the game at 70 and went on to win, 79-76;
– on Jan. 22, UNC led 36-30 at the half and 59-52 with 3:35 to play, but lost in double overtime, 79-77;
– on Feb. 1, UNC rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to lead Boston College by three with 2:52 to play, but the Tar Heels were whistled for a three-shot foul with 17 seconds to go in the Eagles' 71-70 victory;
– on Feb. 3 at eighth-ranked Florida State, UNC led 28-20 late in the first half and 37-33 early in the second before missing 17 consecutive field goal attempts; still, UNC trailed by just four and had the ball with 40 seconds to play in FSU's 65-59 win.
• Carolina shot 59.1 percent from the floor against Duke in the first half as it built a 44-35 lead at the break; it was UNC's highest percentage in a first half this season, the third highest in any half and the highest surrendered by the Blue Devils in any half this year.
• The Tar Heels shot 52.2 percent from the floor against Duke, only the second time in 23 games this season UNC has shot 50 percent.
• By contrast, through 23 games UNC shot 50 percent or better from the floor: seven times in 2018-19, nine times in 2017-18, eight times in 2016-17 and 14 times in 2015-16.
• It was just the eighth time in 220 games under Roy Williams the Tar Heels shot 50 percent from the floor and lost. UNC had won the last 12 times it shot 50 percent from the floor and its last 13 when scoring 90 or more points.

LINEUP NOTES
• Carolina is playing without injured senior shooting guard Brandon Robinson, the Tar Heels' third-leading scorer and top three-point shooter. Without him, Tar Heels have started their eighth different lineup (in 23 games) against Florida State and Duke.
• The eight starting lineups equal the most by the Tar Heels in the Roy Williams Era. UNC also started eight in 2009-10 when it went 20-17.
• Last season, UNC earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and won a share of the ACC regular-season title with just two starting lineups (one for 35 games and another for one game).
• Freshman forward Armando Bacot and junior Garrison Brooks are the only Tar Heels to start all 23 games.

ROY NEARING 200 ACC WINS
• Carolina is 199-83 in 282 regular-season ACC games under 17-year head coach Roy Williams. Dean Smith won his 200th ACC game 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.

UNC-WAKE FOREST SERIES
• The Tar Heels are 161-66 against the Demon Deacons, including 60-31 on the road (15-10 against the Deacs in Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum).
• UNC is 19-10 overall at LJVM with a pair of wins in the NCAA Tournament in both 1993 and 2007.
• Carolina has beaten Wake Forest six games in a row and 10 of the last 11.
• UNC has won the last three meetings in LJVM, 87-71 on 1/12/15; 93-87 on 1/11/17; and 95-57 on 2/16/19.

LAST YEAR'S ONLY MEETING
UNC 95, WAKE FOREST 57, 2/16/19
• The 38-point margin of victory was the largest in series history and was the largest ACC road win in UNC history (previous 34 at Virginia Tech om 12/19/2004 and at Virginia on 1/29/2005).
• Carolina made 16 three-pointers, which tied the season high and equaled the second most in UNC history.
• Carolina shot a season-high 62.3 percent from the floor.
• Carolina made 16 of 25 three-pointers to shoot 64 percent, which tied the third-highest percentage in a game in UNC history and was the highest in any road game in UNC history.
• In the first half, Carolina shot a season-high (for a half) 74.1 percent from the floor to build a 49-21 lead.
• Carolina scored the game's first 18 points.
• Cameron Johnson led all scorers with 27 points and made a career high seven 3FGs.

ANTHONY BACK IN THE LINEUP
• Freshman point guard Cole Anthony is averaging 22.0 points in the last three games against Boston College, Florida State and Duke. The rookie point guard scored 26 points on Feb. 1 against Boston College in his first action since 12/8/19. He underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Dec. 16 and missed 11 games.
• He went 14 for 14 from the free throw line against the Eagles, which matched Tyler Hansbrough's 14 for 14 performance in 2006 vs. NC State for the highest percentage from the free throw line in both the Roy Williams Era and the Smith Center.
• He had 24 points and 11 rebounds against Duke, becoming the first Tar Heel freshman to have a double-double against the Blue Devils since Kendall Marshall (in points and assists) in 2011.
• The Tar Heels went 4-7 in the 11 games he missed due to injury.

ROBINSON STILL OUT INDEFINITELY
• In the same game in which the Tar Heels got point guard Cole Anthony back in the lineup for the first time in 55 days, senior guard Brandon Robinson went down with another ankle injury.
• With 17 seconds to play in the loss to Boston College, Robinson was whistled for a foul when he came down on the foot of a BC shooter making a three-point attempt. The foul sent BC to the line for the go-ahead free throws. He had to be helped off the floor.
• He did not play at Florida State or Duke; there is no timetable for his return.
• Robinson missed the first four games this season due to a right ankle sprain that he suffered in the exhibition game on 11/1/19 against Winston-Salem State and the Jan. 22 game at Virginia Tech due to neck soreness following an auto accident in which the other drive was cited for driving while impaired.

INJURY TOTALS CONTINUE TO ADD UP
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson, junior forward Sterling Manley and freshman guard Anthony Harris are injured and won't play at Wake Forest. They are among the seven Tar Heels who have combined to miss 73 games due to injury thus far this season.
• Missed games include (through Duke):
23 by Sterling Manley (left knee)
18 by Anthony Harris (left and right knees)
11 by Cole Anthony (right knee)
11 by Jeremiah Francis (left knee)
7 by Brandon Robinson (right ankle, neck)
2 by Andrew Platek (left ankle)
1 by Leaky Black (turf toe)

• The 73 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, previously the 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).

IN THE MIAMI AND NC STATE WINS
• Carolina beat Miami, 94-71 in Chapel Hill on Jan. 25 and won at NC State, 75-65, on Jan. 27. In those games, the Tar Heels 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.
• 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.

NOTABLE
• Garrison Brooks 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).
• Brooks played a career-high 48 minutes in the double overtime loss at Virginia Tech.
• In the 11 games without injured point guard Cole Anthony, Brooks averaged 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.
• Brooks had six double-doubles in a row (from Yale through Virginia Tech), the longest streak by a Tar Heel since John Henson's nine in a row in 2011.
• Brandon Robinson 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 set his career scoring high six times this season, including 20 against Yale on Dec. 30, 27 vs. Clemson on Jan. 11 and 27 vs. Miami on Jan. 25.
• Robinson is the first Tar Heel to have a career high of 11 points in his first three seasons and score 25 or more twice and 20 or more three times as a senior.
• Robinson scored in double figures two times in his first 106 games and in 12 of his 16 games this season.
• 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)

• 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 (.414) is its lowest since the 1959-60 season (.413), its three-point percentage (.295) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16) and its free throw percentage of .648 is its lowest since 2013-14.
• Carolina is seventh in the ACC in scoring at 71.9 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.
• Carolina's 13 losses in its first 23 games are the most since the 2001-02 team was 7-16 after 23 games.

BACOT'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES
• Freshman Armando Bacot has nine double-doubles in points and rebounds.
• He's the first Tar Heel freshman with nine double-doubles since Antawn Jamison set the freshman record with 13 in 1995-96.
• His nine double-doubles match J.R. Reid (1986-87) and Sam Perkins (1980-81) for the second most by a Tar Heel.
• 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 ever to reach each of those marks in a game.
• His 8.0 rebounds per game are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Sean May averaged the same in 2002-03.

UNC'S FRESHMAN DOUBLE-DOUBLES
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
9 Armando Bacot
9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81
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 (43.5), are fourth in offensive rebounds per game (14.0) and sixth in rebound margin (+8.7). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 13.7 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.
• UNC is 21st in the nation in offensive rebound percentage.
ROY FOURTH ALL-TIME IN WINS WITH 881
• Carolina's win over Miami on Jan. 25 was the 880th career win for Roy Williams, surpassing Dean Smith for fourth place in NCAA wins by a Division I head coach.
• Williams is now 881-247.
• Williams is also third in wins by an ACC head coach with 463. 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
1152 Mike Krzyzewski
960 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
1079 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
463 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech

MEDIA POLLING
• Carolina was not ranked in the February 10 Associated Press poll for the ninth week in a row, its longest streak not in the poll since going unranked in the last 13 polls in 2012-13.
• 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.