Tar Heels Welcome Brown Friday Night

GAME 2
• Carolina hosts Brown on Friday, November 12, at 9 p.m.
• The game will be broadcast by the ACC Network (Dalen Cuff, Malcolm Huckaby).
• The Tar Heels and Bears are both 1-0. Carolina led from wire-to-wire, built a 26-point lead with 4:28 to play and defeated Loyola Maryland, 83-67, on Tuesday night. Brown led by 22 at the half in an 89-59 opening-night win over Salve Regina.
• The Tar Heels are 1-0 for the 17th consecutive season.
• Caleb Love (22) and Brady Manek (20) led four Tar Heels in double figures.
• Manek made Carolina's first basket of the season, a three-pointer 17 seconds into the game.
• Manek earned the start at power forward, his 112th start in 123 collegiate contests.
• The Tar Heels are 1-0 all-time against Brown. UNC defeated the Bears, 115-63, in Miami on December 28, 1985. Brad Daugherty led the top-ranked Tar Heels with 26 points. Current assistant coach Jeff Lebo had 10 points and five assists.
• Brown junior guard Paxson Wojcik is the son of Doug Wojcik, who was an assistant coach for the Tar Heels from 2000-03.
• Brown is Carolina's first Ivy League opponent since UNC defeated Yale in the Smith Center on December 30, 2019.

HUBERT
• Hubert Davis is 1-0 as Carolina's head coach. Davis was named Carolina's 20th head coach, and first Black head coach, on April 5, 2021.
• Davis is the fourth Tar Heel head coach who also played at UNC, joining Reynolds Cuthbertson, Monk McDonald and Matt Doherty.
• Davis played for Dean Smith from 1988-92, was selected by the New York Knicks in the first round of the NBA Draft and played a dozen seasons in the NBA. He was a college basketball analyst at ESPN for seven years and an assistant coach on Roy Williams' Tar Heel staff from 2012-21.

TEAM CAPTAINS
Junior forward/center Armando Bacot and sophomore guards RJ Davis and Caleb Love were selected team captains.
• Davis and Love are the first sophomore captains since Marcus Paige in 2013-14.
• The players were selected captains by a vote of their teammates.

UNC 83, LOYOLA MARYLAND 67
• Caleb Love scored 20-plus points for the third time as a Tar Heel. He had 25 at Duke and 20 against Wake Forest as a freshman.
• It was the seventh time Love has led UNC in scoring. He also led UNC in the season opener last year when he scored 17 against the College of Charleston.
• It was the second game in a row in which Love did not commit a turnover (also in NCAA first round vs. Wisconsin).
• Love made 7 of 13 shots from the floor. Carolina is 5-0 when Love shoots at least 50 percent from the floor.
• Brady Manek scored 20 points. It was the 76th time he scored in double figures and the 13th career game in which Manek scored 20 or more points.
• RJ Davis led UNC with five assists, his second-highest total as a Tar Heel (eight at Iowa last season).
• Kerwin Walton had 11 points and made three three-point field goals. It was the 13th time he made at least three as a Tar Heel. UNC is 9-4 when he connects on at least three 3FGs.
• Carolina improved to 100-12 in season openers.
• It was UNC's 20th straight home opening victory.

RECAPPING ELIZABETH CITY STATE
• Five Tar Heels scored in double figures in Carolina's 83-55 exhibition game win over Elizabeth City State at the Smith Center on November 5.
• Dawson Garcia (17), Armando Bacot (16), Brady Manek (16), RJ Davis (12) and Caleb Love (11) scored 72 of UNC's 83 points.
• Garcia, Love and Manek each hit a pair of three-pointers. Carolina made 9 of 23 from three-point range. The Tar Heels shot 43.1 percent from the floor and made 24 of 30 free throws.
• Davis and Love each had five assists as UNC assisted on 18 of 25 field goals.
• The Tar Heels out-rebounded ECSU, 49-28.

ROSTER CHANGES
• The Tar Heels welcome seven new players to the roster, including three transfers, two freshmen and two former junior varsity players.
• Graduate student Brady Manek made 235 threes and scored 1,459 points in four seasons at Oklahoma. Sophomore Dawson Garcia averaged 13.0 points and 6.6 rebounds an earned Freshman All-Big East Conference honors last season at Marquette. Junior Justin McKoy, a Raleigh native who attended Panther Creek High School in Cary, returns to his home state after two seasons at Virginia.
• Manek's 235 three-pointers for the Sooners are more than all but two Tar Heels – Marcus Paige (299) and Joel Berry II (266).
• Manek earned his degree from OU in seven semesters. He became the tallest player in Big 12 history to make 200 threes and the first with 200 threes and 100 blocks. The Harrah, Okla., native is the only Sooner to compile 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 200 three-pointers and 100 blocks.
• Garcia scored 24 points and had 11 rebounds for Marquette against the Tar Heels in February when the Golden Eagles handed UNC an 83-70 loss in Chapel Hill.
• Garcia played AAU ball with fellow Minnesota native and Tar Heel teammate Kerwin Walton.

PRESEASON ACCOLADES
• Carolina was picked to finish third in the ACC by the media at preseason media day in Charlotte on October 12.
• Armando Bacot, who earned third-team All-ACC honors in 2021, was selected to the preseason first team. Sophomore guard Caleb Love was chosen for the second team. Love was a member of the ACC's All-Freshman team last season.
• Bacot and Dawson Garcia are on the preseason watch list for the Wooden Award. Bacot is also on the list for the Naismith Trophy and the Lute Olson Award.
• Bacot, Love and Dawson Garcia are on the Basketball Hall of Fame's preseason watch lists for their respective positional player-of-the-year awards.
• Love is a candidate for Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year award, Garcia for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year award and Bacot for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year award.
• Carolina is the only school to win three Bob Cousy Awards (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012). Felton and Lawson won as juniors, while Marshall won the award as a sophomore.

RANKINGS
• Carolina is No. 19 in the Associated Press preseason poll and No. 20 in the coaches' poll.
• The preseason ranking was the 929th time the Tar Heels were in named an AP poll, most in college basketball history.
• Carolina has been ranked at least once in 65 of the poll's 74 seasons.

TAR HEEL STAFF
• Head coach Hubert Davis is a Tar Heel alum, and so are each of his assistant coaches and members of the basketball staff.
• Assistant coaches Brad Frederick (1996-99), Jeff Lebo (1985-89) and Sean May (2002-05), Director of Recruiting Pat Sullivan (1990-93, 1994-95) and Director of Team and Player Development Jackie Manuel (2001-05) all played for the Tar Heels. Director of Operations Eric Hoots was a manager and has been on staff for 18 seasons.
• Frederick played on Final Four teams that won ACC championships in 1997 and 1998.
• Lebo is a 20-year head coaching veteran who set 10 UNC records in his playing career.
• May was the Most Outstanding Player of the 2005 NCAA Final Four, scoring 26 points in the national championship game vs. Illinois.
• Manuel was twice named Carolina's defensive player of the year and was a starter on the 2005 NCAA champions.
• Sullivan was a key contributor on the 1993 national champions and is one of seven Tar Heels who have played in three Final Fours.
• Davis, Lebo, May and Frederick combined to score 4,441 points as Tar Heels. Syracuse is the only school whose coaches scored more points at their alma mater than UNC (Gerry McNamara, Adrian Autry, Allen Griffin and Jim Boeheim scored 5,189 for the Orange).

PRO HEELS
NBA
Cole Anthony, Orlando
Harrison Barnes, Sacramento
Tony Bradley, Chicago
Reggie Bullock, Dallas
Ed Davis, Cleveland
Wayne Ellington, Los Angeles Lakers
Danny Green, Philadelphia
Cameron Johnson, Phoenix
Nassir Little, Portland
Coby White, Chicago

G League
Justin Jackson, Austin (Dallas)
Theo Pinson, Maine (Boston)
Day'Ron Sharpe, Long Island (New Jersey)

International
Nate Britt, Yoast United, The Netherlands
Isaiah Hicks, Seoul Samsung Thunders, South Korea
Desmond Hubert, Al Arabi, Kuwait
Brice Johnson, Toyama Grouses, Japan
Christian Keeling, BC Rustavi, Georgia
Justin Knox, Neo-Phoenix, Japan
Ty Lawson, US Monastir, Tunisia
Luke Maye, BAXI Manresa, Spain
James Michael McAdoo, Hitachi Sun Rockers, Japan
Kennedy Meeks, Cholet Basket, France
Marcus Paige, Orleans Loiret, France
Justin Pierce, VfL Kircheim Knights, Germany
Reyshawn Terry, Plateros de Fresnillo, Mexico
Deon Thompson, Leones des Ponce, Puerto Rico
J.P. Tokoto, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israel
Jawad Williams, Yamagata Wyverns, Japan
Kenny Williams, Kolossos Rhodes, Greece

source: TarHeelsInternational.com

NOVEMBER 2021 SIGNEES
• Hubert Davis's first recruiting class includes Tyler Nickel of Massanutten, Va., Will Shaver of Birmingham, Ala., Seth Trimble of Menomonee Falls, Wis., and Jalen Washington of Gary, Ind.
• "The young men we want to sign have to be able to shoot and be versatile guys who can play multiple positions," says Davis. "We were specifically looking in this class for a point guard, a shooter with size and two big men who are versatile on both ends of the floor, and we were able to get all of that with these four players."
• Nickel plays for Coach Carey Keyes at East Rockingham High School in Elkton, Va. "We knew we had to improve our shooting and Tyler's not only a great shooter but a tremendous all- around player at his size," says Davis. "He's a wing that is outstanding defensively and competes hard on both ends of the floor. He is built to play on the biggest stage. He desperately wants to be on the floor against the best players and teams in the country. His relentless work ethic and skill give him a chance to be one of the best wings ever to play at UNC. I'll never have to coach effort or motivate Tyler to play hard on every possession because the passion to play is built into his character."
• Shaver is home schooled. "Will is a versatile big," says Davis. "He can consistently score in the post with either hand and can shoot it well from three. He is effective in pick and roll and pick and pop situations, and he loves to pass. He's a really good passer out of the post, so when teams have to double team him, because he can score, he has the ability to find open shooters all over the floor. He holds a special place for me because he was the first 2022 kid to commit. And he's from Alabama and we've had a couple of players from there in Pete Chilcutt and Garrison Brooks, who were pretty good players for us."
• Trimble, the younger brother of J.P. Tokoto, who played for the Tar Heels from 2012-15, plays for Coach Jason Hallenbeck at Menomonee Falls High School. "Seth is the fastest point guard in the country with the ball," says Davis. "He's the most athletic point guard, combo guard in the country. As good as he is, his ceiling is ridiculous. He's the best on-the-ball defender I saw as we evaluated the class of 2022. Seth can pick up full court and create havoc on the defensive end and with his athleticism and speed he is almost impossible to stop at driving the ball into the paint. He is a true point guard in that he loves to get people involved."
• Washington attends West Side High School and is coached by Ricky Carter. "Jalen is the best shooting big in the country in this class," says Davis. "His touch from 12-15 feet in the mid-post is outstanding. I can't remember a guy who will be coming into college who is that skilled. He is athletic, has great size and is a good passer. I've talked about wanting versatile bigs who can score in the post and are excellent offensive rebounders, and he can also defend guards on the perimeter. That's what I want and we got the best one."

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Players Mentioned

Armando Bacot

Garrison Brooks

RJ Davis

Dawson Garcia

Caleb Love

Brady Manek

Justin McKoy

Day'Ron Sharpe

Kerwin Walton

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