Tar Heels Look To Bounce Back Vs. Virginia Saturday Night

Carolina will return to the Smith Center on Saturday night at 8 p.m. when it hosts Virginia. ESPN will televise the game.

GAME 25 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 10-14 overall, including 3-10 in ACC play. The Tar Heels have lost four in a row, their third streak this season of four or more straight losses, which had never happened before in UNC history.
• UNC had only lost four in a row one time (in 2009-10) in the Roy Williams Era prior to this season.
• Carolina lost at Wake Forest, 74-57, on February 11. That was a 55-point swing from last season's 95-57 Tar Heel victory in Winston-Salem. The Deacs led by 18 at the half and by 26 early in the second, the largest deficit UNC has faced all season. The Tar Heels then out-scored Wake Forest, 29-12, over the next 14 minutes to cut the deficit to nine points.
• UNC missed a three from the corner with two minutes to play that would have made it a six-point game and the Deacs scored the final eight points for the 17-point margin.
• UNC had lost its previous three 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) and previous four losses by 11 combined points.
• Carolina is 3-10 in the league through 13 games for the first time since 2009-10. UNC also was 3-10 in 2001-02.
• UNC was 4-10 through 14 ACC games in 2009-120 and 3-11 in 2001-02.
• Carolina is 10-14 overall. That's the most losses through 24 games since the 2001-02 team was 7-17 (and lost its 25th game to drop to 7-18).
• Virginia is 16-7 overall and fourth in the ACC at 8-5.
• Neither team has shot well this season. Carolina is shooting 41.0 percent from the floor, 28.7 percent from three and 65.5 percent from the foul line. Virginia's numbers are .405/.286/.701.
• UNC and Virginia are 13th and 14th, respectively in the ACC in field goal percentage, and 14th and 15th in three-point percentage. The Tar Heels are 15th in free throw percentage.

HONORED TAR HEELS
• Carolina is recognizing a pair of former men's basketball players, Willie Cooper and Luke Maye at the Virginia game.
• The athletic department is honoring Cooper with its Trailblazer Award. As a member of the freshman team in 1964-65, the Elm Cty, N.C., native was the first black basketball player at UNC. He played for freshman team coach Ken Rosemond under the direction of Dean Smith.
• Cooper's daughter, Tonya, played for the Carolina women's basketball team and won a national championship in 1994. His son, Brent, played on UNC's JV team.
• Cooper earned a degree in business administration from UNC and served in the U.S. military in Vietnam.
• Maye will receive the Patterson Medal, which is the most prestigious award given at the university for career athletic achievement.
• Maye grabbed more rebounds in consecutive seasons than any Tar Heel ever and became the first Tar Heel to average a double-double in points and rebounds in consecutive seasons in more than 40 years. His game-winning shot with 0.3 seconds to play to beat Kentucky in the 2017 NCAA South Regional final that sent UNC to the Final Four where it won the NCAA title will forever be remembered as one of the most memorable plays in college basketball history.
• Maye earned first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America honors as a junior and was second-team all-conference in 2019. He won ACC Player of the Week honors five times – only Antawn Jamison, Tyler Hansbrough and Phil Ford won that award as a Tar Heel more.
• A graduate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, Maye was a four-time Academic All-ACC honoree, and won Academic All-America honors and was the ACC's top scholar-athlete in men's basketball in both 2018 and 2019.

UNC-VIRGINIA SERIES
• Carolina leads, 131-58, including 16-12 under head coach Roy Williams.
• Virginia has won the last five and eight of the last 12 games against the Tar Heels. Two of those wins were in Chapel Hill in 2015 and 2019.
• The five straight losses are UNC's most against Virginia since a five-game streak in 1918-20. UVA beat Carolina seven straight from 1911-16.
• Carolina is 66-8 against the Cavaliers in Chapel Hill, including 24-5 in the Smith Center. Virginia has never defeated the Tar Heels in consecutive games in Chapel Hill.
• The teams played in Charlottesville on 12/8/19 in UNC's first ACC road game of the season. The Cavaliers won, 56-47.
• Neither team has scored in the 80s in the last 11 games in the series. UNC is 3-8 in those games.
• The Tar Heels are 7-10 against Tony Bennett's Virginia teams and were 1-0 against Bennett at Washington State (2008 NCAA Tournament).
• UNC has scored more than 75 points once in the last 17 games against Virginia and under 65 points 12 times (3-9 in those 12 games).

EARLIER THIS SEASON, DEC. 8, 2019
VIRGINIA 56, UNC 47
• Carolina scored 47 points, its fifth-lowest point total under Roy Williams.
43 at Virginia, 2/27/2017 (43-53)
45 vs. Michigan State, 11/26/2017 (45-63)
45 at Syracuse, 1/11/2014 (45-57)
46 vs. NC State, 2/24/2015 (46-58)
47 at Virginia, 12/8/2019 (47-56)

• Carolina shot 37.0 percent from the floor, but held the Cavaliers to only 32.7 percent. It was the first time in 27 games Carolina lost when holding an opponent under 40 percent.
• It was the first time UNC lost when holding an opponent under 35 percent since a 53-43 Virginia victory on 2/27/2017.
• Carolina had six assists (one in the first half), its fewest since it had five in an overtime loss at Maryland in 2009.
• The Tar Heels made 1 of 14 three-pointers (7.1 percent), their worst three-point performance since making 1 of 18 (5.6 percent) vs. Michigan State on 11/26/2017.
• The teams combined for only four fastbreak points (two apiece).
• Virginia led 24-18 at the half. The 18 points tied the fewest points in a half by the Tar Heels in the Roy Williams Era (first half vs. Butler in Maui, 11/20/2012; first half vs. NC State on 2/24/2015).
• Cole Anthony (12) and Armando Bacot (11) were the only Tar Heels to score in double figures.
• Freshmen guards Anthony Harris and Jeremiah Francis both played for the first time. They had missed the first eight games due to high school injuries.

LAST TIME IN CHAPEL HILL
VIRGINIA 69, UNC 61, FEB. 11, 2019
• The loss snapped UNC's seven-game ACC win streak.
• The 61 points were a season low for UNC.
• Carolina shot 35.4 percent, which would be UNC's second-lowest percentage of the season.
• Carolina made nine three-pointers, but its last was a Coby White three with 12:06 to play that gave UNC a 49-43 lead.
• Carolina scored eight points in the final 8:57. The Tar Heels led 53-46 with 8:58 to play after a Cameron Johnson basket.
• White led UNC in scoring with 17 points.
• Freshman Nassir Little played just two minutes in the first half before spraining his right ankle. He did not return.

MORE ON SHOOTING
• Carolina shot 59.1 percent from the floor against Duke in the first half on Feb. 8 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 a half this year.
• The Tar Heels shot 52.2 percent from the floor against Duke, one of two times in 24 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, 10 times in 2017-18, nine times in 2016-17 and 15 times in 2015-16.
• 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 (.410) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season (.396) and its three-point percentage (.287) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is ninth in the ACC in scoring at 71.3 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.

LINEUP NOTES
• Carolina has played the last three games against Florida State, Duke and Wake Forest 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 24 games).
• 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 24 games.

ROY NEARING 200 ACC WINS
• Carolina is 199-84 in 283 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.

COLE ANTHONY
• Freshman point guard Cole Anthony is averaging 20.3 points, but shooting 22 of 72 from the floor (6 of 28 from three) in the last four games.
• 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 OUT THE LAST THREE CONTESTS
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson went down with another ankle injury with 17 seconds to play in the loss to Boston College on Feb. 1.
• Robinson has played 16 of Carolina's 24 games. He and Cole Anthony have only played in six games together (Alabama, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio State, Virginia and Boston College).
• 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 driver 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 didn't play at Wake Forest. They are among the seven Tar Heels who have combined to miss 76 games due to injury thus far this season.
• Missed games include (through Wake Forest):
24 by Sterling Manley (left knee)
19 by Anthony Harris (left and right knees)
11 by Cole Anthony (right knee)
11 by Jeremiah Francis (left knee)
8 by Brandon Robinson (right ankle, neck)
2 by Andrew Platek (left ankle)
1 by Leaky Black (turf toe)

• The 76 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.
• Only six players missed a total of 12 games in Williams' first three seasons (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 34.4 minutes per game, most by a Tar Heel since point guard Marcus Paige averaged 35.6 in 2013-14.
• The 34.5 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)

• 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.

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 (14.2) and seventh in rebound margin (+8.5). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 13.5 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
1153 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
1080 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 out of 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.

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Players Mentioned

Cole Anthony

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

Garrison Brooks

Jeremiah Francis

Anthony Harris

Cameron Johnson

Nassir Little

Sterling Manley

Luke Maye

Andrew Platek

Brandon Robinson

Coby White