Tar Heels Head To Tallahassee For Saturday Matinee

GAME 13
• The Tar Heels play their fourth ACC road game of the season when they travel to Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday, January 16 to play Florida State.
• Carolina has won three in a row and is 8-4 overall, 3-2 in the ACC.
• UNC is 1-2 in ACC road games this season, winning by two points at Miami and losing by three at NC State and five at Georgia Tech.
• Carolina is coming off an 81-75 home win over Syracuse on Tuesday. The Tar Heels grabbed a season-high 24 offensive rebounds and scored 24 second-chance points in the win.
• Florida State is 6-2, 2-1 in the ACC. The Seminoles beat NC State, 105-73, at the Tucker Center on January 13. That was FSU's first game since a 10-point loss at Clemson on December 29.
• Carolina leads the nation in offensive rebounds per game (16.7), is second in offensive rebound percentage (.419) and is averaging 18.3 second-chance points per game.
• UNC shot 39.7 percent from the floor against the Orange, marking the third straight game the Tar Heels won despite shooting under 40 percent from the floor. That's the third time in the ACC era Carolina has won three consecutive games when shooting under 40 percent. It also happened in wins over Clemson, Wake Forest and Boston College in 2010-11 and NC State, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech in 2015-16.
• Carolina's five ACC games have been decided by three, five, one, two points and six points.
• In its five ACC games, UNC has scored 357 points and allowed 356.

SERIES VS. FLORIDA STATE
• Carolina is 50-14 against the Seminoles, including 17-7 in Tallahassee.
• Carolina has won eight of the last 10 games in the series.
• Roy Williams is 21-7 against FSU (20-7 at Carolina, 1-0 at Kansas). The Tar Heels are 8-4 under Williams against FSU in Tallahassee.
• The Seminoles have won the last two games at the Tucker Center – 81-80 in 2019 and 65-59 a season ago.

LAST SEASON VS. THE SEMINOLES
• UNC led, 37-35, with 15:49 to play, but made only five free throws over the next 10:25, falling behind by 10 points en route to a 65-59 loss.
• Carolina led, 28-20, but the Seminoles scored the final nine points of the first half to lead, 29-28, at the break.
• In the second half, UNC missed 17 consecutive field goal attempts and finished the half 11 of 39 from the floor. Florida State made 11 of 22 field goal attempts in the second half.
• Cole Anthony led UNC with 16 points.
• Leaky Black had 10 points and added five rebounds, three assists and two steals.
• Armando Bacot and Garrison Brooks combined for four field goals and 11 points.
• Florida State out-rebounded UNC, 43-37, and blocked 10 shots.

NOTABLE
• KenPom ranks Carolina as the 325th-most experienced team in the nation (out of 342 teams). Six of UNC's 10 rotation players are freshmen. Those freshmen have played 50.2 percent of all minutes played (1,204 of 2,400).
• Freshmen have made 27 starts this season, including 10 each by Caleb Love and RJ Davis. Kerwin Walton has started the last four games.
• UNC started the same five players in the first eight games, then featured a different group of starters in each of the last four contests.
• This is the eighth time in Williams' 18 seasons at UNC a freshman has started at the point for at least a majority of the season: Bobby Frasor in 2005-06, Ty Lawson in 2006-07, Kendall Marshall in 2010-11, Marcus Paige in 2012-13, Nate Britt in 2013-14, Coby White in 2018-19, Cole Anthony in 2019-20 and Caleb Love in 2020-21.

• Armando Bacot leads UNC in scoring at 11.3 points per game. The last time a Tar Heel led the team in scoring with less than 12 points a game was 1946-47 (Jim Hamilton 11.4 ppg).
• Bacot and Garrison Brooks (10.7) are averaging in double figures. The last time only two Tar Heels averaged 10 or more points was 2009-10.
• Six different Tar Heels have led UNC in scoring in the first 12 games. Bacot has led a team-high four times. Garrison Brooks had 16 points vs. Syracuse, his third high-point game of the season. Caleb Love has led twice, and Leaky Black, RJ Davis and Day'Ron Sharpe have each led one game.
• Black's 16 points at Miami on January 5 were a career high and marked the first time in his career he led UNC in scoring.
• Sharpe leads Carolina in scoring (11.6 ppg) and rebounding (8.8 rpg) in Carolina's five ACC games.
• Carolina has scored 80 or more points twice this season (81 vs. Syracuse and 80 at Iowa). In 18 seasons under Roy Williams UNC has scored 80 or more points 347 times in 631 games (55.0 percent).
• Carolina is 308-39 under Williams when it scores at least 80 points.

• Williams has 893 wins in 33 seasons as a head coach. He is seven wins shy of 900 and 10 from surpassing Bob Knight for the third-most wins by a Division I head coach.

• Carolina has led at the half five times in the first 11 games (4-1 when it leads; 3-3 when it trails at the half, including wins over Stanford, Kentucky and Notre Dame).
• The Syracuse game was the first time the score was tied at the half.
• The opponents have outscored UNC by a combined 16 points in the first half, but the Tar Heels have outscored the opponents by 80 points in the second half.

• The Tar Heels are averaging 45.2 rebounds per game, including 16.7 offensive. UNC leads the nation in offensive rebounds and total rebounds and is second in rebound margin (13.2).
• The school record for offensive rebounds per game is 15.8 in 2016-17.
• Three Tar Heels rank in the top five in the ACC in rebounding – Bacot (fourth), Brooks (tied for fifth) and Sharpe (tied for fifth).
• Sharpe is second in the ACC in offensive rebounds with 3.5 per game. Bacot (3.4) and Brooks (3.0) rank third and fourth, respectively, in the league in offensive rebounds.
• This is the seventh consecutive season UNC is averaging at least 40 rebounds per game (the 14th time in Roy Williams' 18 seasons as UNC's head coach).
• Kentucky is the only team to outrebound the Tar Heels this season (42-38). UNC's rebound margin of +13.2 per game is on pace to top the previous school record of +12.3 in 2016-17.
• Carolina has finished first, first, first and second in the nation in rebounds per game in the last four seasons and in the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in each of the last six seasons.
• Carolina is averaging 18.3 second-chance points per game with a season-high 30 vs. Charleston, low of seven at Georgia Tech and 20 or more four times. The 18.3 points are the most second-chance points UNC has averaged in the last 10 seasons (17.6 in 2016-17 was the previous high in the last decade).

UNC's SECOND-CHANCE POINTS
LAST 10 SEASONS
2020-21 18.3
2019-20 13.3
2018-19 15.3
2017-18 15.1
2016-17 17.6
2015-16 14.4
2014-15 14.2
2013-14 13.7
2012-13 13.8
2011-12 15.3

• UNC is averaging 5.1 three-pointers per game, but has made 30 (7.5 per game) over the last four games – including eight at Georgia Tech (first time five players made a three) and against Notre Dame and a season-high nine at Miami.
• Carolina has been out-scored by a combined 81 points from the three-point line in its four losses this season. Texas, Iowa, NC State and Georgia Tech combined to make 44 threes (11.0 per game), while the Tar Heels made 17 in those games (eight at Tech).

• Carolina has 78 assists and 76 turnovers in its five ACC games. Leaky Black has the team's best assist-turnover ratio in league play with 19 assists and eight turnovers.

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Players Mentioned

Cole Anthony

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

Garrison Brooks

RJ Davis

Caleb Love

Day'Ron Sharpe

Kerwin Walton

Coby White