Tar Heels Will Face No. 6 Purdue Saturday In Hall Of Fame Tipoff

GAME 4
• The Tar Heels will play a pair of games against nationally-ranked opponents – possibly two top-10 opponents – this weekend in the Basketball Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
• The 3-0 Tar Heels play sixth-ranked and 3-0 Purdue on Saturday, November 20. Gametime is 4 p.m. (ESPN News). At 1 p.m. Saturday, No. 5 Villanova plays No. 17 Tennessee.
• Saturday's winners play in the championship contest Sunday at 1 p.m. (ABC) with the third-place game to follow at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN).
• UNC is coming off a 94-83 win at the College of Charleston on Tuesday. Armando Bacot went 10 for 12 from the floor and scored a career-high 24 points, added 12 rebounds and tied his career best with six blocks. Caleb Love made a career-high 10 free throws en route for 22 points, and Kerwin Walton made four threes.
• The Tar Heels committed a season-high 17 turnovers at Charleston, but shot 64.3 percent from the floor in the second half. Charleston led by 11 in the first half, but UNC made a 22-point swing to win by 11.
• Leaky Black and Kerwin Walton led Carolina's defensive stand as the Tar Heels held the Cougars to 36 percent shooting in each half. Charleston made seven threes in the first half in building a 42-36 lead, but only 4 of 14 in the second half.
• The Tar Heels never led in the opening half but gained the advantage on a Brady Manek three just 3:07 into the second and took the lead for good on a Bacot bucket with 15:52 remaining.
• More info from the win over Charleston and UNC's first two wins over Loyola Maryland and Brown on page 11 of these notes.
• Carolina has scored 83, 94 and 94 points in its first three games. This is the first time since 2017-18 UNC has scored that many to start the season since scoring 86 or more in the first five games in 2017-18.
• The Tar Heels are 3-0 for the eighth straight season. UNC last began a season 4-0 in 2019-20 when it opened with five consecutive wins.
• Purdue is 3-0 with wins over Bellarmine, Indiana State and Wright State. The Boilermakers are averaging 94.7 points and have an average margin of victory of 32.7 points per game.
• Carolina is shooting 52.8 percent from the floor and has shot better than percent in four of six halves this season. That includes a season-best 64.3 percent in the second half at Charleston when the Tar Heels out-scored the Cougars, 58-41.
• Carolina scored 58 points on 45 second-half possessions at Charleston for 1.29 points per possession. UNC scored .75 PPP in the first half when it turned the ball over 11 times.
• Leaky Black (plus 53) and Armando Bacot (plus 48) lead the Tar Heels in plus/minus through three games. Black and Bacot were both plus 16 to lead UNC at Charleston.
• Five Tar Heels are averaging double figures in scoring. Caleb Love has two 22-point games (he scored 20 twice in 29 contests as a freshman) and leads the team at 19.0 per game. Armando Bacot (18.0), Brady Manek (17.0), RJ Davis (12.7) and Kerwin Walton (10.0) also are netting double figures through three games.
• Brady Manek had 17 points and nine rebounds at Charleston, which allowed him to reach two milestones. The graduate transfer from Oklahome passed the 1,500-point plateau and grabbed his 700th rebound. He enters the Purdue game with 1,510 points and 703 rebounds in 125 games.

VS. PURDUE
• Carolina is 8-2 against the Boilermakers with wins in each of the last eight contests.
• This is UNC's first game against Purdue since the teams played in three straight seasons in November in neutral-site events in 1997-98 (Great Alaska Shootout), 1998-99 (Preseason NIT) and 1999-2000 (Maui Invitational).
• The teams have played eight of the 10 previous games at neutral sites. The teams have only played one time apiece in Chapel Hill and West Lafayette, Ind.
• Carolina lost to Wisconsin on Purdue's home court (Mackey Arena) in the 2021 NCAA Tournament first round, a game that proved to be Roy Williams' final game as a head coach.

2013: LAST TIME AT MOHEGAN SUN
• Carolina won the Hall of Fame Tipoff in November 2013, defeating Richmond, 82-72, and third-ranked Louisville, 93-84.
• Sophomore guard Marcus Paige (below) was the Tournament's Most Valuable Player. He set career highs with six threes and 26 points vs. the Spiders, then set another career high the following day with 32 points vs. the Cardinals.
• Paige went on to earn second-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors that season.
• Brice Johnson also established career highs vs. Richmond with 24 points and 12 rebounds.
• Freshman Kennedy Meeks had 13 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in the championship game.

BACOT'S FAST START
• Junior forward/center Armando Bacot is averaging 18.0 points and a team-high 9.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game.
• Bacot is 23 for 28 from the floor, a percentage of .821 that is the highest in any three-game stretch by a Tar Heel since Scott Williams went 29 for 33 (.879) in 1990 against Pepperdine, Maryland and Virginia.
• Bacot was 10 for 11 from the floor and had 22 points and 10 rebounds against Brown and made 10 of 12 field goal attempts and finished with a career-best 24 points and 12 boards at Charleston. He is the first Tar Heel ever to post consecutive 20 and 10 games in which he shot at least 80 percent from the floor in both contests.
• He was the first Tar Heel to make 10 field goals in back-to-back games since Cameron Johnson made 10 at Wake Forest and 11 at Duke in 2019, when he went on to earn first-team All-ACC honors.
• Bacot' three-game totals include 54 points, 28 rebounds and 10 blocks. He is one of five Tar Heels ever to accumulate those numbers over a three-game span. Rasheed Wallace did it five times, Ed Davis twice, John Henson, Sam Perkins and Bacot one apiece.

HUBERT
• Hubert Davis is 3-0 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 UNC's first sophomore captains since Marcus Paige in 2013-14.
• The players were selected captains by a vote of their teammates.

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 18th in the November 15 AP poll.
• This week's ranking is the 930th time the Tar Heels were ranked in an AP poll, most in college basketball history.
• Carolina has been ranked at least once in 65 of the poll's 74 seasons.
• The Tar Heels play at least four teams this season currently ranked in the top 10 in the AP poll (No. 2 UCLA, No. 4 Michigan, No. 6 Purdue and two games vs. No. 7 Duke). Carolina will also play either No. 5 Villanova or No. 17 Tennessee on Sunday in the Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament in Uncasville, Conn.

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 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 source: TarHeelInternational.com
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

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."

• Tyler 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."

• Will 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."

• Seth 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."

• Jalen 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."

JAMISON INDUCTED SUNDAY IN COLLEGE
BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
• Antawn Jamison, the unanimous National Player of Year as a Tar Heel in 1998, will be inducted in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday, November 21. The celebration in Kansas City, Mo., begins at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.
• The Class of 2021 Induction Celebration will be streamed live on the Hall of Fame Twitter (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OdKrBarkrOKX) and website (halloffameweekend.com/live).
• The class includes Jamison, Maryland's Len Bias, Kansas's Paul Pierce (coached at KU by Roy Williams), Ohio State's Jim Jackson, UCLA's David Greenwood, Bradley's Hersey Hawkins and coaches Tom Penders and Rick Byrd.
• Jamison was a three-time first-team All-ACC and two-time All-America selection who led UNC to ACC Tournament championships and Final Fours in 1997 and 1998.
• Jamison is the 12th Tar Heel player and coach to be inducted in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame joining coaches Ben Carnevale, Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, Larry Brown and Roy Williams and players Billy Cunningham, Bob McAdoo, James Worthy, Phil Ford, Charlie Scott and Sam Perkins.

Tar Heels Will Face No. 6 Purdue Saturday In Hall Of Fame Tipoff

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