Tar Heels Head To Miami For Tuesday Matchup

GAME 11
• Carolina hits the road for the third time in its first four ACC games when the Tar Heels play at Miami on Tuesday, January 5. Tip time is 8 p.m. on ESPN.
• Carolina is 6-4 overall, 1-2 in the ACC, after its 66-65 win over Notre Dame at the Smith Center on January 2. The Irish were added to the schedule on New Year's Eve after UNC's original opponent for 1/2/21, Syracuse, was unable to play due to Covid-19 safety protocols.
• Freshman Day'Ron Sharpe led UNC with 25 points and 10 rebounds and Leaky Black scored the winning basket on a drive with 9.1 seconds to play as the Tar Heels beat the Irish for the eighth time in nine tries.
• Sharpe earned ACC Freshman of the Week honors for his performance vs. the Irish.
•The Hurricanes are 4-4 overall, 0-3 in league play. Miami lost, 66-65, at home to Clemson on January 2.
• UNC and Miami have played no common opponents thus far this season.
• Carolina's next game, at home on Saturday, January 9 vs. Clemson, has been scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip on ESPN.

SERIES VS. MIAMI
• Carolina leads the series, 25-8, including wins in each of the last four games.
• UNC is 9-3 at Miami, including 7-3 at the Watsco Center.
• UNC won, 85-76, on 1/19/2019, the last time the teams played in Coral Gables.
• Roy Williams is 21-8 against Miami – 2-1 at Kansas and 19-7 at UNC.

LAST SEASON VS. HURRICANES
• Carolina beat Miami, 94-71, in Chapel Hill on 1/25/2020.
• The 23-point margin of victory was UNC's largest of the season.
• The win was Roy Williams' 880th as a Division I head coach, which moved him into fourth place in NCAA history.
• UNC shot a season-high 58.0 percent from the floor. It was the first time in the 2019-20 season UNC shot 50 percent in a game.
• Carolina shot 55.0 percent in the first half and 62.1 in the second half.
• UNC had 32 assists, which equaled the most by the Tar Heels in the Williams era.
• Senior guard Brandon Robinson had career highs in points (29), field goals (11) and three-pointers (6).
• Armando Bacot had 19 points, 12 rebounds and a season-high seven assists.
• Leaky Black tied his career high with six assists.

NOTABLE
• KenPom ranks Carolina as the 323rd most experienced team in the nation. Six of UNC's 10 rotation players are freshmen. Those freshmen have played 51 percent of all minutes played (1,019 of 2,000).
• Armando Bacot leads UNC in scoring at 11.4 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).
• Carolina has scored 80 points (at Iowa) one time this season. In 18 seasons under Roy Williams UNC has scored 80 or more points 346 times in 629 games (55 percent).
• 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.
• Carolina has led at the half just four times in the first six games (3-1 when it leads; 3-3 when it trails at the half, including wins over Stanford, Kentucky and Notre Dame).
• The opponents have outscored UNC by a combined 18 points in the first half, but the Tar Heels have outscored the opponents by 64 points in the second half.
• The Tar Heels are averaging 44.9 rebounds per game, including 16.2 offensive. UNC is third nationally in rebounds and fourth in offensive rebounds.
• The school record for offensive rebounds per game is 15.8 in 2016-17.
• 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 plus 13.5 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.
• UNC is averaging 4.7 three-pointers per game, but has made a season-high eight in consecutive games at Georgia Tech (first time five players made a three) and against Notre Dame.
• 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).

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Players Mentioned

Cole Anthony

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

Caleb Love

Brandon Robinson

Day'Ron Sharpe

Coby White