Carolina & Duke Will Meet Saturday Night In The Smith Center

Saturday, February 8

Chapel Hill

6 PM

North Carolina

Duke

Garrison Brooks

Photo by: J.D. Lyon Jr.

February 7, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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Carolina will host No. 7 Duke on Saturday night at 6 p.m. in the Smith Center. ESPN will televise the game.

GAME 23 NOTEBOOK
• Carolina is 10-12 overall, including 3-8 in ACC play. The Tar Heels have lost two in a row – 71-70 at home to Boston College on 2/1/20 and 65-59 at Florida State on 2/3/20.
• Those two losses followed a two-game winning streak for the Tar Heels against Miami and NC State.
• Carolina is 3-8 in the league through 11 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.
• Duke is 19-3, 9-2 in the ACC and 6-1 on the road. The Blue Devils are ranked No. 7 in the AP poll and have won four in a row since a two-game skid against Clemson and Louisville.

HOME STRUGGLES
• Carolina is 5-6 at home this season, including 5-5 at the Dean E. Smith Center and 0-1 at Carmichael Arena.
• This is the first time UNC has lost five times at the Smith Center since going 10-5 in 2014-15. The only time UNC has lost six or more games at the Smith Center in a season was 2001-02 when the Tar Heels went 6-9.

ANOTHER LINEUP CHANGE
• Playing without injured senior shooting guard Brandon Robinson, Carolina's third-leading scorer and top three-point shooter, the Tar Heels started their eighth different lineup in 22 games in the six-point loss at Florida State on Feb. 3.
• The eight starting lineups equal the most by the Tar Heels in the Roy Williams Era. UNC also started eight in 2009-10 when the Tar Heels 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 22 games.

ROY NEARING 200 ACC WINS
• Carolina is 199-82 in 281 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-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 139-112. The Tar Heels have won three of the last four games.
• The Tar Heels won two of the three matchups against Duke last season. UNC beat No. 1 Duke, 88-72, in Durham and beat the Blue Devils 79-70 in Chapel Hill. Duke edged Carolina, 74-73, in Charlotte in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
• The Tar Heels have played 251 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• The schools first played one another a century ago, a 36-25 Tar Heel victory in Duke's Angier B. Duke Gymnasium on 1/24/1920. The teams are wearing special uniforms to commemmorate a century of the rivalry.
• The teams have split the last 100 games, with both teams scoring exactly 7,746 points in those games.
• Carolina is 65-36 against Duke in Chapel Hill, including 19-15 in the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have won the last three against Duke in the Smith Center.
• This is the first time in 15 games the teams are playing when one is unranked in the AP poll. Unranked UNC defeated No. 5 Duke, 74-66, on 2/20/2014, a game that was postponed eight days due to a snowstorm.
• This is the 152nd consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 16-20 against Duke as Carolina's head coach.
• Carolina is 46-47 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 39 of the ACC's 65 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 21 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 32 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 39 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 39 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.
• Garrison Brooks is the only Tar Heel who will play against Duke on Feb. 8 who has scored a point for UNC against the Blue Devils (Brandon Robinson has scored seven and Sterling Manley scored 10 but both are injured and will not play).
• Brooks scored 0, 4 and 10 points in three games vs. Duke as a freshman and 14, 10 and 2 in the three games in 2018-19.
• Graduate transfer Justin Pierce did score two points and grabbed three rebounds at Duke in the fourth game of his freshman season while playing at William & Mary in 2016-17.
• Brooks was 6 for 7 from the floor and had eight rebounds and two steals in the win at Duke last year.

JOEL BERRY HONORED
• Joel Berry II, the Most Outstanding Player in the 2017 NCAA Final Four, and a first-team All-ACC performer as a senior in 2018, will be honored at halftime of the UNC-Duke game.
• Berry will be honored for his No. 2 jersey hanging in the rafters of the Smith Center, a distinction he earned by being named MOP at the Final Four.
• Berry will also be honored for winning the Patterson Medal in 2018, which is the most prestigious award given to Carolina's top athlete for overall career achievements.

ANTHONY BACK IN THE LINEUP
• Freshman point guard Cole Anthony is Carolina's leading scorer for the season (19.5 ppg in 11 games) and in the last two games since he returned from an 11-game absence due to a right knee injury.
• Anthony is averaging 21.0 points in the last two games against Boston College and Florida State. The rookie point guard played 26 minutes and 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.
• Anthony was 5 for 14 from the floor against the Eagles with three assists and one turnover.
• He went 14 for 14 from the free throw line, which matched Tyler Hansbrough's 14 for 14 performance in 2006 vs. NC State for the highest percentage from the free throw line both in the Roy Williams Era and the Smith Center.
• Anthony's 26-point performance against Boston College was the fifth time in his 10 games he scored 20 or more. He had 34 against Notre Dame in his collegiate debut on Nov. 6.
• At Florida State, Anthony led UNC in scoring (16), rebounds (8) and assists (3). He was 5 for 22 from the floor and just 3 of 8 from the free throw line.
• The Tar Heels went 4-7 in the 11 games he missed due to injury.

ROBINSON 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; 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.

INJURY TOTALS ADDING UP
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson, junior forward Sterling Manley and freshman guard Anthony Harris are injured and won't play against Duke. They are among the seven Tar Heels who have combined to miss 70 games due to injury thus far this season.
• Missed games include (through FSU):
22 by Sterling Manley (left knee)
17 by Anthony Harris (left and right knees)
11 by Cole Anthony (right knee)
11 by Jeremiah Francis (left knee)
6 by Brandon Robinson (right ankle, neck)
2 by Andrew Platek (left ankle)
1 by Leaky Black (turf toe)

• The 70 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 34.7 minutes per game, most by a Tar Heel since point guard Marcus Paige averaged 35.6 in 2013-14.
• The 34.7 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 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)

• Carolina scored a season-high 94 points in the win over Miami. It was just the third time this season UNC scored 80 or more points and the first time the Tar Heels won a game when it reached the 80-point mark.
• 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 (.408) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season (.396), its three-point percentage (.296) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16) and its free throw percentage is its lowest since 2013-14.
• Carolina is ninth in the ACC in scoring at 70.9 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 12 losses in its first 22 games are the most since the 2001-02 team went 6-16 in the first 22 games. 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, including four of the last six games.
• 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 8.1 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
• Despite being out-rebounded in Tallahassee, the Tar Heels lead the nation in rebounds per game (43.2), are fifth in offensive rebounds per game (14.1) and seventh 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.

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 881-246.
• 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
1151 Mike Krzyzewski
959 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
1078 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 January 27 Associated Press poll for the eighth 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.