Tar Heels Head To Louisville For Saturday Matinee

North Carolina will visit Louisville on Saturday at 4 p.m. ESPN will televise the game.

GAME 27
• Carolina has lost six consecutive games, all of which were ACC games, and plays at No. 11 Louisville on Saturday, Feb. 22.
• The Tar Heels are 3-12 in the ACC and 10-16 overall. The 16 losses tie the third most in school history (20 in 2001-02, 17 in 2009-10 and 16 in 2002-03).
• The 12 regular-season ACC losses tie the most in UNC history (went 4-12 in 2001-02).
• Carolina is 3-12 in the league through 15 games for the first time ever. The 2001-02 team was 4-11 through 15 games, then lost its 16th game to finish 4-12.
• This is the fourth time UNC has lost double-digit regular-season ACC games (also 12 in 2001-02, 11 in 2009-10 and 10 in 2002-03).
• Louisville is 22-5, 13-3 in the ACC.
• The Cardinals are a half-game ahead of Duke and Florida State for first place in the ACC. Carolina is a half-game behind Wake Forest for the final spot.
• The Tar Heels are coming off consecutive games in which they lost on the opponent's last shot. On Feb. 15, Virginia's Tomas Woldetensae made a three-pointer (his sixth of the game) with 0.8 seconds remaining to hand the Tar Heels a 64-62 home loss. Two days later, Nate Laszewski made a three with 2.4 seconds to play to lift Notre Dame to a 77-76 victory.
• Carolina has lost six times by three points or less in its last 11 games. This is the second time in UNC history and first time since 1940-41 the Tar Heels lost six games in a season by three points or less.
• The six losses by three points or less include: 79-76 to Clemson in overtime; 79-77 at Virginia Tech in double overtime; 71-70 to Boston College; 98-96 to Duke in overtime; 64-62 to Virginia; and 77-76 at Notre Dame.
• Carolina led Notre Dame 64-49 with 8:15 to play in the second half before the Irish closed the game on a 28-12 run to win by a point. It was the fifth time in conference play this season the Tar Heels led by double figures in the second half in a loss. Those games include: a 41-30 lead over Pittsburgh with 17:55 to play; a 68-58 lead over Clemson with 1:56 to play; a 49-37 lead in Blacksburg over the Hokies with 12:59 to play; a 77-64 lead over Duke with 3:56 to play; and the 64-59 lead at Notre Dame with 8:15 to play.
• On nine occasions in the last 11 games, the opponents have scored the tying or winning points in the last 27 seconds of the second half or an overtime period – six of those nine have come with three seconds or less and four have scored with under a second remaining: – on Jan. 11, Clemson's Aamir Simms hit a three with three seconds to play in regulation and the Tigers went on win, 79-76 in overtime;
– on Jan. 22, Virginia Tech's P.J. Horne made two free throws with 13 seconds to play in the second half to tie the game at 60, Landers Nolley hit two free throws to even the game at 67 with 27 secoincs to play in the first overtime and Tyrece Radford made a driving layup with 0.4 seconds to play in the second overtime to lift the Hokies to a 79-77 victory;
– on Feb. 1, Jared Hamilton was awarded three free throws with 17 seconds to play (he made two) in Boston College's 71-70 win;
– on Feb. 8, Duke's Tre Jones sent the game to overtime with a 17-footer as time expired and Wendell Moore won the game with an offensive rebound putback of a Jones miss as time expired in overtime in Duke's 98-96 win;
– on Feb. 15, Virginia's Tomas Woldetensae made a go-ahead 3FG with 0.8 seconds to play in Virginia's 64-62 win;
– on Feb. 17, Notre Dame's Nate Laszewski hit a winning three-pointer with 2.4 seconds to play in the Irish's 77-76 victory.

• Carolina has lost six games in a row for the first time since January 2002. It is the fourth time in school history UNC has lost six or more straight games. The only longer streak was eight games in 1950-51.
• This is the third time UNC has lost four or more consecutive games this season. The Tar Heels had lost four in a row only one time (in 2009-10) in the Roy Williams Era prior to this season.
• Carolina's last four home losses have been decided by a total of eight points (79-76 in overtime vs. Clemson; 71-70 to Boston College; 98-96 in overtime to Duke; and 64-62 to Virginia).
• The Virginia game was the second home game in a row the opposition made a shot with less than a second to play to win the game (Duke both sent the game to overtime and won the game in OT on buzzer-beating shots).

CAROLINA-LOUISVILLE SERIES
• Carolina is 15-6 against the Cardinals with wins in the last two and four of the last five games between the schools.
• UNC is 2-4 against the Cardinals in Louisville (2-2 in the KFC Yum! Center). The Tar Heels have won the last two times the teams have played in Louisville.
• Roy Williams is 8-3 against Louisville as UNC's head coach and 9-4 overall.
• This is the 22nd time UNC has played Louisville. There were no polls when the teams first played in 1929. Carolina was ranked in the AP poll in each of the next 20 games between the schools (in the top 10 in 13 of those games). The Tar Heels are currently unranked.

FIELD GOAL/SCORING NOTES
• Carolina shot 51.7 percent from the floor in the second half at Notre Dame. That was the seventh half in the last nine games (7 of 18 halves) UNC shot 50 percent or better; UNC did that in just four of the first 34 halves this season.
• Carolina has made 50 percent or better of its shots from the floor in 221 of 612 games under 17-year head coach Roy Williams (36.2 percent of the time).
• Carolina has lost just nine of those 221 games, but each of the last two home games against Duke and Virginia.
• Carolina shot 52.2 percent against Duke and 50.0 percent against the Cavaliers. UNC became just the fourth team to shoot 50 percent against UVA this season.
• Carolina shot 56.5 percent from the floor in the first half against UVA as the teams battled to a 28-all draw over the first 20 minutes.
• 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.
• UNC has shot 50 percent from the floor for the game in three of 26 games this season and all three have come in the last eight games (Miami, Duke and Virginia).
• By contrast, through 26 games UNC shot 50 percent or better from the floor: nine times in 2018-19, 11 times in 2017-18, 10 times in 2016-17 and 16 times in 2015-16.
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.414) is its lowest since the 1959-60 season (.413) and its three-point percentage (.292) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is 295th in the country in two-point percentage (.463), 334th in three-point shooting (.292) and 310th at the free throw line (.660).
• Carolina is ninth in the ACC in scoring at 71.1 points per game. Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.
• Carolina's scoring average of 71.1 points per game is its third lowest in the ACC Era (66.7 in 1981-82 and 68.5 in 1953-54, both pre-shot clock and pre-three-point shot).
• 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 started eight lineups this season, which equals the most by the Tar Heels in the Roy Williams Era. UNC also started eight in 2009-10 when it went 20-17 and reached the finals of the NIT.
• 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 26 games (Leaky Black has made 25 starts).

ROY NEARING 200 ACC WINS
• Carolina is 199-86 in 285 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 20.2 points over the six games since his return from an 11-game absence to injury, just above his season average of 19.5 points.
• Anthony's average of 19.5 is the highest in the nation by a freshman and is on pace to be the highest ever by a UNC freshman (Tyler Hansbrough holds the record at 18.9 ppg in 2005-06).
• He went 14 for 14 from the free throw line against the Eagles, which matched 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.

INJURY TOTALS CONTINUE TO ADD UP
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson returned to the lineup on Feb. 17 when he played 25 minutes and scored 11 points at Notre Dame. Junior forward Sterling Manley and freshman guard Anthony Harris are out for the season and didn't play against the Irish. They are among the seven Tar Heels who have combined to miss 81 games due to injury thus far this season.

Missed games due to injury through Notre Dame:
26 by Sterling Manley (left knee)
21 by Anthony Harris (left and right knees)
11 by Cole Anthony (right knee)
11 by Jeremiah Francis (left knee)
9 by Brandon Robinson (right ankle, neck)
2 by Andrew Platek (left ankle)
1 by Leaky Black (turf toe)

• The 81 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.

NOTABLE
• Graduate student Christian Keeling has scored in double figures in 92 college games, including four of the last five games (and five times overall) as a Tar Heel.
• Keeling is 24 for 45 (.533) from the floor and 10 for 10 from the free throw line in the last five games (had made 13 field goals in the previous 10 games and seven free throws in the first 21 games).
• When Cole Anthony scored 23 and Garrison Brooks scored 22 at Notre Dame, it marked the first time they both scored 20 points in the same game.
• Brooks is averaging 34.6 minutes per game, most by a Tar Heel since point guard Marcus Paige averaged 35.6 in 2013-14.
• The 34.6 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.
• 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 12.9 this year. Last year, he scored 3.4 per game and this season is averaging 9.5 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 13 of his 17 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)
9.5 – Brandon Robinson
(3.4 in 2018-19 to 12.9 in 2019-20)

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 8.4 rebounds per game are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Jamison averaged 9.7 in 1995-96.

UNC'S FRESHMAN DOUBLE-DOUBLES
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
9 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
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
• Carolina grabbed 47 rebounds in the 77-76 loss at Notre Dame. That was the 17th time this season the Tar Heels had at least 40 rebounds in a game.
• Prior to this season, Carolina was 384-66 under Roy Williams when it out-rebounded the opponents, a winning percentage of .853. This season, Carolina is 9-21 when it has more rebounds (.429).
• The Tar Heels lead the nation in rebounds per game (43.1), are fourth in offensive rebounds per game (14.1) and fifth in rebound margin (+8.7). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Carolina is scoring 13.5 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 14th 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 881-250.
• 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
1154 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
1081 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 17 Associated Press poll for the 10th 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

Christian Keeling

Sterling Manley

Luke Maye

Andrew Platek

Brandon Robinson

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