Tar Heels To Close Regular Season At Duke Saturday

Saturday, March 7

Durham, N.C.

6 PM

North Carolina

Duke

Garrison Brooks

March 5, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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North Carolina will wrap up its 2019-20 regular season when it plays at Duke on Saturday at 6 p.m. ESPN will televise the game.

GAME 31
• Carolina rides a three-game winning streak into Cameron Indoor Stadium for the 253rd game against Duke, its 20th ACC game this season and the final regular-season game of 2019-20.
• The Tar Heels are 13-17 overall and 6-13 in conference play. The Blue Devils are 24-6, 14-5.
• Duke defeated UNC, 98-96, in overtime in the Smith Center on Feb. 8. The 96 points equaled the most points ever by the Tar Heels in a loss to Duke.

THREE IN A ROW
• Carolina has won three ACC games in a row for the first time this season and has produced a three-game winning streak for the first time since beginning the season 5-0.
• The Tar Heels have played some of their best offensive basketball of the season in recent games. UNC's points per possession against Wake Forest was its best of the season (1.16, 93 points on 80 possessions) and against Syracuse was its third best behind only the 94-71 win over Miami on Jan. 25.
• Carolina's two most efficient offensive halves of the season have come in the second half at Syracuse (52 points on 39 possessions) and second half against Wake Forest (58 points on 40 possessions).
• The Tar Heels have shot better than 50 percent from the floor in each of the last two games (.516 at Syracuse and .508 against Wake Forest), the first time this season UNC did that in consecutive games.
• Carolina has shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half nine times in 30 games this season, including four of the last five games (.517 at Notre Dame, .500 vs. NC State, .567 at Syracuse and .643 against Wake Forest). UNC out-scored the Irish, Pack, Orange and Deacs by a combined 22 points in the second half.
• Over the last six games, the Tar Heels are shooting 47.3 percent from the floor (as a point of reference, the leading team in the ACC in field goal percentage in conference games has shot .470 for the season).
• Carolina has scored 90 points in consecutive games and at least 80 points in three consecutive games, both for the first time this season.
• Carolina's 58-point second half against Wake Forest was its highest scoring 20 minutes of the season. That came one game after scoring 52 in the second half at Syracuse. Those are two of four 50-point halves this season; the Tar Heels scored 56 in the second half in the Jan. 4 loss to Georgia Tech and 51 in the first half against Miami.
• The Tar Heels are averaging 90.0 points and shooting 50.5 percent from the floor in their current three-game win streak. UNC is also 24 for 59 from three-point range (.407) in those three games, including 21 of 43 (.488) in the last two games, and has converted 76.3 percent from the free throw line.

HISTORIC SCORING COMBO
• Junior forward Garrison Brooks and freshman point guard Cole Anthony have combined to score 104 points in the last two games, wins over Syracuse and Wake Forest.
• Brooks had 26 at Syracuse and 25 against the Deacons. Anthony scored 25 in the Carrier Dome and netted 28 against Wake Forest.
• They became the first Tar Heel duo to score 25 or more points in consecutive games since Larry Miller and Bobby Lewis accomplished the feat in 1965-66 against Ohio State and Richmond.
• Lewis and Billy Cunningham did it against Virginia and Maryland in 1964-65 and York Larese and Doug Moe did it against South Carolina and Wake Forest in 1960-61.
• Anthony and Brooks have both scored 20 or more points in three of the last four games in which they both played (Notre Dame, Syracuse and Wake Forest), the first three times this season they both scored 20 or more.

NOTABLE
• In a season in which Carolina didn't score 80 points in a win until its ninth win and 19th game of the season (against Miami on Jan. 25) the Tar Heels are now averaging 80.1 points in their 13 victories.
• Carolina's game at Duke should be the 11th time in 31 games the team's three leading scorers – Cole Anthony, Garrison Brooks and Brandon Robinson – have all played. It will be the sixth game the trio has played together since the middle of December. The most recent five games in which they all played resulted in wins over NC State, Syracuse and Wake Forest and one-point losses to Boston College and Notre Dame.
• Carolina's win over Syracuse was the Tar Heels' ninth in a row over the Orange. UNC is the first team to defeat Syracuse nine consecutive times; Cornell beat the Orange eight straight in the 1920s.
• Carolina's home win over NC State, coupled with its win in Raleigh on Jan. 27, gave the Tar Heels their 13th regular-season sweep over the Wolfpack in Roy Williams' 17 seasons.
• It also meant the Tar Heels have won home and away games against at least one ACC opponent in every season since the league was formed in 1953-54.
• Carolina's victory over the Wolfpack ended the Tar Heels' seven-game losing streak, the second-longest streak in UNC history.
• The win over NC State was Roy Williams' 200th regular-season ACC win, making him the third coach (and second fastest) in league history to win 200. Williams won his 200th in 287 games; Dean Smith won his 200th in 278 games and Mike Krzyzewski won his 200th in 296.

UNC-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 139-113 (252 games are more than any other opponent for the Tar Heels).
• Carolina is 48-54 against the Blue Devils on the road, including 37-45 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Under Roy Williams, the Tar Heels have won at Cameron Indoor Stadium in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2019.
• Last year, eighth-ranked UNC defeated top-ranked Duke, 88-72, at Cameron. Luke Maye had 30 points and 15 rebounds and Cameron Johnson made a career-high 11 field goals and scored 26 points. The Tar Heels went just 2 for 20 from three-point range, but scored 62 points in the paint. The game was tied for only 34 seconds and UNC never trailed.
• This is the 153rd consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 16-21 against Duke as Carolina's head coach.
• Carolina is 46-48 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.

FEB. 8, 2020, IN CHAPEL HILL
DUKE 98, UNC 96 (OT)
• Duke's Wendell Moore tipped in a missed shot at the buzzer in overtime (left his hands with 0.3 seconds to play) to break a 96-96 tie.
• Duke sent the game to overtime when Tre Jones, who scored 28, hit a shot at the buzzer to tie the game at 84.
• Carolina led 44-35 at the half and by as many as 13 with 3:56 to play in regulation.
• It was the first time UNC lost on a shot at the buzzer since 2/27/18, when Miami's JaQan Newton made a three to defeat UNC, 91-88.
• UNC lost in overtime for the third time in a span of eight games.
• The 96 points equaled the most by UNC in a loss to Duke. The Blue Devils beat Carolina, 99-96, in overtime at the Greensboro Coliseum on 1/3/1975.
• Carolina shot 52.2 percent from the floor, only the eighth time in 220 games under Roy Williams the Tar Heels lost a game when they shot at least 50 percent from the floor.
• UNC shot 59.4 percent from the floor in the first half. It was the highest percentage Duke allowed in a half this season.
• Duke scored 25 points off 18 UNC turnovers. The 25 points are the most allowed by UNC this season.
• Carolina went 21 for 38 from the free throw line. The Tar Heels made just 5 of 12 in the final 6:49 of regulation and 7 of 16 over the final 11:49 including overtime.
• The 38 free throw attempts are a season high for UNC.
• 17 missed free throws were a season high.
• UNC missed both ends of a two-shot foul four times and the first shot of a 1 and 1 once.
• Cole Anthony led UNC with 24 points and 11 rebounds, He was the first Tar Heel freshman to have a double-double against Duke since Kendall Marshall had 15 points and 11 assists vs. the Blue Devils in 2011.
• Leaky Black had a career-high nine assists.
• Andrew Platek tied his season high with nine points. He also had seven rebounds and five assists.

TAR HEEL PLAYER NOTES
• Junior power forward Garrison Brooks is one of three players in the ACC in the top five in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage. The LaFayette, Ala., native is seventh in scoring (16.4), fourth in rebounding (8.7) and second in field goal percentage (.544) among ACC players in all games.
• In conference games only, Brooks is second in scoring (18.4), second in rebounding (8.7) and second in FG percentage (.547).
• Brooks has scored 20, 22, 30, 26 and 25 points in his last five games. He is the first Tar Heel to score 25 or more points in three straight games since Tyler Hansbrough in 2007-08 and his scoring average of 24.6 points over the last five contests is the highest since Hansbrough averaged 26.0 over five games early in 2008-09.
• Brooks averaged 6.2 points and 4.5 rebounds in 73 games over his first two college seasons; as a junior, he is averaging 16.1 points and 8.7 rebounds.
• Brooks scored 20 points once as a sophomore; he has 20 or more 10 times this season.
• Brooks did not have a double-double in his first two seasons; he has 11 this season.
• Brooks has won UNC's defensive player of the game award 12 times this season and 32 times in three seasons. He's won the award in five of the last seven games.
• 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 is 46 for 73 (.630) from the floor in the last five games and 29 for 35 (.829) from the free throw line in the last three games.

• Freshman point guard Cole Anthony leads Carolina in scoring at 20.2 points per game. That's the highest average by a freshman in the nation 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).
• Over the last three games Anthony is 23 for 39 from the floor (.590).
• Over the last two games he's made 11 of 16 from three-point range (.688) and has 14 assists and just three turnovers.
• Anthony scored 25 points and had seven assists at Syracuse and scored 28 points with seven assists against Wake Forest. He is the first Tar Heel to ever have 25 or more points and at least seven assists in consecutive games.
• Anthony has scored 25 or more points five times this season, equaling the second most by a UNC freshman. Rashad McCants had six 25-point games in 2002-03. Tyler Hansbrough and Coby White each had five. McCants and White both played 35 games, Hansbrough played 31 and Anthony has played 19 thus far.
• Anthony is averaging 21.1 points and 4.6 assists in the 10 games since he returned from a right knee injury that sidelined him for 11 games from Dec. 15 to Jan. 27.
• Anthony went 14 for 14 from the free throw line against Boston College, 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.

• Graduate student Christian Keeling has scored in double figures in 94 college games, including six of the last nine games as a Tar Heel.
• He's scored nine or more points in each of the last three games.
• The Augusta, Ga., native is averaging 6.9 points for the season, and 12.4 over the last nine games.
• Keeling needs 28 more points to reach 1,900 for his college career, which includes three seasons at Charleston Southern.
• Keeling has set season scoring highs four times in the last nine games (14 at Florida State, 15 at Wake Forest, 16 vs. NC State and 18 at Syracuse).
• Keeling is 44 for 80 from the floor (.550) in the last nine games (40 for 106, .377 in the first 21 games). He's also 15 for 16 from the free throw line in the last nine games (made seven free throws in the first 21 games) and he's made seven 3FGs in the last four games (made nine in the first 26 games).

• Senior guard Brandon Robinson made five three-pointers and scored 18 points on Senior Night against Wake Forest. It was the fourth time this season he made at least five threes (first time since the Miami game on Jan. 25).
• Robinson has set his career scoring high six times this season – 20 against Yale on Dec. 30, 27 vs. Clemson on Jan. 11 and 27 vs. Miami on Jan. 25.
• He made three or more 3FGs in seven straight games (a streak snapped on Jan. 27 at NC State), which equaled 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).

• Freshman forward Armando Bacot did not play against Wake Forest on March 3 due to a sprained right ankle, an injury he suffered early in the first half of the game at Syracuse on Feb. 29.
• Bacot had been the only Tar Heel to start the first 29 games, but the win over the Orange was the third time he played less than 10 minutes due to an early injury.
• 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.
• Bacot's nine double-doubles match J.R. Reid (1986-87) and Sam Perkins (1980-81) for the second most by a Tar Heel.
• Bacot's 8.1 rebounds per game are the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Sean May (8.1) in 2002-03.

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

ANTHONY WINS ACC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
• Cole Anthony was the ACC's Freshman of the Week for his play against NC State (Feb. 25) and Syracuse (Feb. 29).
• He had 19 points and five assists vs. the Wolfpack and 25 points and seven assists at Syracuse. His seven three-pointers against the Orange equaled the second-most in a game by a UNC freshman (Raymond Felton hit eight at NC State in 2003 and Coby White made seven against Texas and Miami a season ago).
• It's the second time Anthony has won the award. He was the player and freshman of the week following his 34-point debut against Notre Dame on Nov. 6.

SO ABOUT THOSE LOSSES
• Carolina's 17 losses tie the second most in school history (8-20 in 2001-02 and 20-17 in 2009-10).
• The 13 regular-season ACC losses are the most in UNC history (went 4-12 in 2001-02).
• 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).
• Carolina's last four home losses were 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).
• Carolina went 7-8 at home this season (7-7 at the Smith Center and 0-1 at Carmichael Arena). The eight losses are the most since UNC went 6-9 at home in 2001-02.
• Carolina has lost six times by three or fewer points. 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.

SECOND-HALF LEADS
• The Tar Heels lost five ACC games this season in which they led by double figures in the second half.
• 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 a 64-49 lead at Notre Dame with 8:15 to play.
• On nine occasions in the last 15 games, the opponents 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 came 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 seconds 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 put back 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.

FIELD GOAL/SCORING NOTES
• Carolina's field goal percentage (.422) is its lowest since the 1959-60 season (.413) and its three-point percentage (.303) is its lowest ever (previous low of .327 in 2015-16).
• Over the last six games, the Tar Heels are shooting 47.3 percent from the floor (as a point of reference the leading team in the ACC infield goal percentage in conference games has shot .470 for the season).
• UNC has shot 50 percent from the floor for the game in five of 30 games this season (Miami, Duke, home vs. Virginia, at Syracuse and Wake Forest). The Tar Heels are 3-2 in those games and 214-9 in the Roy Williams Era when shooting 50 percent.
• By contrast, through 30 games UNC shot 50 percent or better from the floor: nine times in 2018-19, 13 times in 2017-18, 11 times in 2016-17 and 17 times in 2015-16.
• Carolina has shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half nine times in 30 games this season, including four of the last five games (.517 at Notre Dame, .500 vs. NC State, .567 at Syracuse and .643 against Wake Forest). UNC out-scored the Irish, Pack, Orange and Deacs by a combined 22 points in the second half.
• Carolina is 263rd in the country in two-point percentage (.473), 314th in three-point shooting (.303) and 284th at the free throw line (.675).
• Carolina has improved to in the ACC in scoring at 72.5 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 72.5 points per game is its lowest since averaging 72.1 in 2002-03.
• 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 started its ninth different lineup this season on Feb. 22 at Louisville when Garrison Brooks was unable to play due to illness. Nine lineups are the most by the Tar Heels in the Roy Williams Era. UNC started eight in 2009-10 when it went 20-17 and reached the finals of the NIT.
• The Senior Night game against Wake Forest produced the 10th starting lineup of the season as first-time starters Shea Rush and Robbie O'Han joined Brandon Robinson, Christian Keeling and Justin Pierce in the starting five.
• 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).
• No Tar Heel has started every game this season. Freshman forward Armando Bacot started the first 29 games, but did not play vs. Wake Forest (Leaky Black and Garrison Brooks have each started all but one game due to injury and did not start on Senior Night).

INJURY TOTALS CONTINUE TO ADD UP
• Bacot became the 11th Tar Heel to miss a game due to injury when he was unable to play against Wake Forest on March 3. Those 11 Tar Heels have combined to miss 95 games.
• Bacot started the first 29 games, but also played less than 10 minutes in three different games due to injuries (played just three minutes at UNCW due to an elbow to the head; seven minutes vs. Ohio State due to a left ankle sprain; and nine minutes at Syracuse due to a right ankle sprain).

Missed games due to injury through Wake Forest:
30 by Sterling Manley (left knee)
25 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)
3 by Brandon Huffman (left knee)
2 by Andrew Platek (left ankle)
1 by Armando Bacot (right ankle)
1 by Leaky Black (turf toe)
1 by Garrison Brooks (illness)
1 by Justin Pierce (left ankle)

• The 95 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).

REBOUNDING LEADERS ONCE AGAIN
• The Tar Heels have grabbed at least 40 rebounds 17 times this season and are again among the nation's top rebounding teams.
• The Tar Heels are second in the nation in rebounds per game (41.9), are sixth in offensive rebounds per game (13.6) and ninth in rebound margin (+7.7). Carolina has led the nation in rebounds per game in each of the previous three seasons.
• Prior to this season, Carolina was 384-66 (.853) under Roy Williams when it out-rebounded the opponents, a winning percentage of .853. This season, Carolina is 11-12 when it has more rebounds (.478).
• UNC is 18th in the nation in offensive rebound percentage.
• In the last seven seasons, Carolina's offensive rebound percentages include: 13th, fifth, third, first, third, 16th and now 18th.

ROY FOURTH ALL-TIME IN WINS WITH 884
• 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 884-251.
• Williams is also third in wins by an ACC head coach with 466.
• 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
1156 Mike Krzyzewski
963 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
884 Roy Williams
879 Dean Smith

MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1083 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
466 Roy Williams North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
359 Leonard Hamilton Florida State

MEDIA POLLING
• Carolina was not ranked in the March 2 Associated Press poll for the 12th 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.