Tar Heels Continue Homestand With BC Wednesday

GAME 20
• Carolina plays the second game of a three-game homestand when it hosts Boston College at the Smith Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m. (RSN).
• The Tar Heels are 13-6 overall, 5-3 in the ACC.
• Boston College is 8-10, 3-5 in league play.
• Carolina defeated the Eagles, 91-65, in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on January 2.
• Caleb Love led five Tar Heels in double figures with 22 points and Armando Bacot extended his double-double streak to 10 games with 14 points and 20 rebounds in Monday's 78-68 win over Virginia Tech.
• The Eagles lost, 87-57, at Wake Forest on Monday.
• The Tar Heels are 10-0 at the Smith Center this season and 20-1 there in the last two seasons.
• BC is 1-5 on the road this year.
• Sophomore forward Dawson Garcia was unavailable for Monday's game as he was returning to Minnesota due to family illness.
• Carolina's coaches are wearing black and green sneakers as part of the NABC's and American Cancer Society's annual Coaches vs. Cancer initiative to promote cancer research. Black represents skin cancer; green represents non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Including the Boston College game, five of Carolina's next seven games are scheduled to be played at home.
• Next week's game at Louisville was moved back one day to February 1.

REGIONAL SPORTS NETWORK AFFILIATE LIST FOR BOSTON COLLEGE AT UNC
• The BC-UNC game will be televised on the following Regional Sports Network stations:
– Bally Sports (Detroit, Florida, Great Lakes, Midwest Plus, North, South, Southwest, Southwest Plus, Sun and Wiscosin Plus)
– Marquee Sports Network
– Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
– New England Sports Network
– YES Network

BACOT POUNDING THE BOARDS
• Junior forward/center Armando Bacot leads the ACC in rebounding, field goal percentage and double-doubles and is seventh in the conference in scoring.
• The Richmond, Va., native is second in the country in double-doubles with 15, third in rebounding at 11.8 per game and 13th in field goal percentage (.600).
• Bacot grabbed 20 rebounds against Virginia Tech, the second time in the last five games he had 20 or more rebounds.
• Bacot has 95 rebounds in the last six games, a figure surpassed in UNC history only by Billy Cunningham.
• Over the last 10 games Bacot has scored 192 points and grabbed 138 rebounds. He is averaging 19.2 points and 13.8 rebounds over those nine games.
• Bacot has double-doubles in each of the last 10 games, the longest streak by a Tar Heel since Cunningham in 1964-65. Bacot's 10-game streak equals the fourth-longest by a Tar Heel.
• He was named ACC Player of the Week twice and was the USBWA National Player of the Week for his play against Georgia Tech.
• Bacot was the first Tar Heel to win USBWA National Player-of-the-Week honors since Marcus Paige in December 2013.
• Bacot was the first Tar Heel to win multiple ACC Player-of-the-Week honors in the same season since Luke Maye in 2018-19. He is the first Tar Heel to win in consecutive weeks since Joel Berry II in January 2017.
• Bacot leads the ACC in double-doubles, field goal shooting and rebounding. The last player to lead the ACC in those three categories in the same season was Duke's Marvin Bagley in 2018. No Tar Heel has ever led the league in those categories in the same season.
• Bacot is leading Carolina in scoring (16.8), rebounding, field goal percentage and blocks (26). He also led UNC in those categories last season. No Tar Heel has ever led in those four categories in consecutive seasons.
• Bacot's 11.8 rebounds per game are on pace for the fifth-highest average in UNC history and the most since Cunningham averaged 14.3 in 1964-65.

UNC-BOSTON COLLEGE ALL-TIME
• The Tar Heels are 19-6 against the Eagles, including 17-5 since BC joined the ACC prior to the 2005-06 season.
• Carolina has won 13 of the last 14 games against the Eagles. The Tar Heels had defeated BC 12 straight times before BC edged UNC, 71-70, in the Smith Center on 2/1/2020.
• The teams did not play each other in 2020-21. The only scheduled game was to be played in Chapel Hill on 2/23/21, but the game was canceled due to Covid protocols in the Eagle program.

EARLIER THIS SEASON IN CHESTNUT HILL
UNC 91, BOSTON COLLEGE 65 (Jan. 2, 2022)
• The 26-point win was Carolina's largest of the season.
• Carolina led by 36 in the second half, its largest lead of the season.
• It was the third time since 1998 four Tar Heels scored 17 or more points. Caleb Love led with 22, Armando Bacot had 18 and RJ Davis and Brady Manek had 17.
• Carolina's 29-point halftime lead was its largest of the season and largest since a 56-23 lead over NC State on 1/8/2017.
• BC shot 16.7% from the floor in the first half, the lowest in a half by an opponent since UNLV shot 16.7% in the second half in Asheville, N.C., on 11/30/2020.

FIELD GOAL SHOOTING
• Carolina has shot under 40% from the floor in its last three games, including a season-low 33.3% at Wake Forest and 36.5% in the 78-68 win Monday over Virginia Tech.
• Carolina shot under 40% in both halves against the Hokies, the first time since the win at Miami last January the Tar Heels won when shooting under 40% in both halves.
• Over the last three games UNC is 72 for 209 from the floor (34.4%).
• Carolina is 6-0 when shooting at least 50% from the floor this season (UNC was 220-9 when shooting 50% under Roy Williams).
• The Tar Heels have shot 50% or better from the floor in the second half in eight of the last 13 games and 10 times this season.
• Carolina's effective FG percentage is 52.2%, an improvement from 46.4% in 2019-20 and 48.3% in 2020-21.
• By comparison, Carolina's effective FG percentage in its most recent NCAA championship seasons were 51.7% in 2016-17, 52.8% in 2008-09 and 56.0% in 2004-05.

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels went 22 for 26 from the free throw line against Virginia Tech and are shooting 75.8% from the line for the season, their best percentage since 1984-85, when they converted 76.1%.
• Carolina is on pace to equal the third-highest percentage in school history from the free throw line (.783 in 1983-84, .761 in 1984-85 and .758 in 1959-60).
• Sophomore guards Caleb Love and RJ Davis lead UNC at the stripe this season. Love is shooting 83.6% for the season and 82.1% in two seasons. Davis is shooting 82.8% this season and 82.4% overall.
• Davis is tied for 12th and Love is 16th in UNC history in free throw accuracy.

DEFENSE
• Carolina is allowing 62.3 points in 10 games in the Smith Center this season. Brown scored 87 on November 12. Since that game the most points by an opponent at home were the 68 by Virginia Tech on Monday evening.
• The 62.3 points are on pace to be the fewest scored by the opponents at home in the shot clcok era.

Fewest Opponent Scoring Average in the
Smith Center (points per game)
2021-22 62.3
1996-97 62.5
1998-99 62.7
2006-07 63.8
2011-12 64.1

• UNC has held its opponents under 70 points in 10 consecutive wins for the first time since 2006-07, when it did that in 15 straight wins.
• Carolina has won four times this season when it allowed fewer than 60 points (53 by UNC Asheville, 51 by Michigan, 50 by App State and 58 by Virginia).

CALEB'S THREES
• Caleb Love has made 42 three-pointers in the first 19 games. Last year, Love finished his freshman season with 34 threes in 29 games. He was 34 for 128 last year. This year, Love has made 42 threes in 101 attempts.
• Love has improved his three-point percentage from 26.6% as a freshman to 41.6% this season. He is fourth in the ACC in three-point percentage.

BACOT DOUBLING DOWN
• Armando Bacot leads the ACC and is tied for second in the nation in double-doubles. Fardaws Aimaq of Utah Valley leads with 17 and Bacot is second with 15.
• Bacot has 33 double-doubles in 80 games over three seasons as a Tar Heel. His double-double rate (41.3%) is the 10th highest by a Tar Heel and the fourth highest in the last 50 years.

Double-Doubles Games Pct.
Billy Cunningham, 1962-65 60 69 .870
Lennie Rosenbluth*, 1954-57 39 76 .513
Antawn Jamison, 1995-98 51 104 .490
Doug Moe, 1958-61 29 60 .483
Rusty Clark, 1966-69 43 91 .473
Larry Miller, 1965-68 42 91 .462
Robert McAdoo, 1971-72 14 31 .452
Pete Brennan*, 1955-58 35 81 .432
Sean May, 2002-05 33 77 .429
Armando Bacot, 2019-active 33 80 .413
Bobby Jones, 1971-74 35 92 .380
Mitch Kupchak, 1972-76 44 119 .370
* Rosenbluth and Brennan played numerous games where their rebound totals are unknown

MORE SCORING
• Five Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Armando Bacot has scored 20 or more seven times, Caleb Love has six 22-point games, and RJ Davis, Dawson Garcia and Brady Manek each have three 20-point games.
• Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points 22 times in 19 games, including five games in which two players scored 20 or more (Loyola, Brown, Charleston, Elon and home vs. Georgia Tech). Last season, UNC had only seven 20-point performances in 29 games. Freshman Day'Ron Sharpe became the first Tar Heel to score 20 or more when he had 25 against Notre Dame in the season's 10th game. UNC did not have any games last season when two players scored 20 or more points.
• This is the 11th Tar Heel team to have five players score 20 points at least twice: 1960, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1989, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2016, 2018 and 2022. Five of the other 10 teams to accomplish that played in Final Fours.
• Bacot has scored 20 or more points seven times this season. He did that five times in his first two seasons combined.
• Love has scored 22 points six times – against Loyola Maryland, Charleston, Michigan, Elon, Boston College and Virginia Tech. The sophomore scored 20 or more twice in 29 games last season.
• Carolina is 8-0 when Love scores 20 or more and 9-1 when he makes 50% of his field goal attempts (4-0 last season and 5-1 in 2021-22).

FROM THREE
• Carolina makes 8.0 threes per game, on pace for the fifth-highest average in UNC history.
• The Tar Heels have made 41.1% of their threes in their 13 wins compared to 29.7% in the six losses. The opponents have connected on 44.1% in their six wins over Carolina and just 29% in the Tar Heels' 13 wins.

UNC Three-Pointers Per Game, Last 10 Years
2021-22 8.00
2020-21 5.59
2019-20 5.48
2018-19 (UNC record) 8.67
2017-18 8.24
2016-17 7.08
2015-16 5.60
2014-15 4.84
2013-14 4.29
2012-13 7.56

UNC Three-Pointers Per Game, All-Time
2018-19 8.67
2002-03 8.29
1982-83 (experimental distance) 8.25
2017-18 8.24
2021-22 8.00

STILL HITTING THE BOARDS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC and are eighth in the country in rebound margin at plus 9.2 per game. UNC also leads the league in rebounds per game (40.8).
• Carolina has led the ACC in rebound margin in each of the previous six seasons and in 13 of 18 seasons under Roy Williams.
• UNC has won the battle of the boards 17 times in 19 games this season. The Tar Heels are 13-4 when out-rebounding their opponents and 0-2 when getting out-rebounded (Tennessee and Kentucky).
• Under Roy Williams the Tar Heels won 82.3% of the games they out-rebounded their opponents. The Tar Heels were victorious in only 46.8% of the games they were out-rebounded under Williams.

DIFFERENT STORY IN DEFEATS
• Through 19 games, Carolina's numbers are decidedly different in its 13 wins versus six losses.
• The Tar Heels are shooting 48.3% from the floor and 41.1% from three-point range in wins and 40.3% overall, including 29.7% from three, in the losses.
• Carolina is holding the opposition to 39.8% shooting in the wins, but the opponents are making 52.1% in their six wins over UNC.
• Carolina has a rebounding advantage of 12.7 per win and a smaller edge (1.7) in its losses.
• Carolina is averaging 4.9 more assists than turnovers in its victories and 2.5 more turnovers than assists in defeat.
• The opponents have 111 assists (18.5 per game) and 47 turnovers in their six victories.

HUBERT
• Hubert 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.

SHAVER JOINS ROSTER
• Will Shaver signed with UNC in November and has joined the team this semester, although he will not play this season.
• The Birmingham, Ala., native began practicing with the team in January.
• Shaver led Oak Mountain High School to back-to-back appearances in the state finals and the 2021 Class 7A title. He averaged 14.3 points and 7.7 rebounds and was named second-team all-state.

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
Justin Jackson, Phoenix
Cameron Johnson, Phoenix
Nassir Little, Portland
Theo Pinson, Dallas
Day'Ron Sharpe, New Jersey
Coby White, Chicago

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
Sterling Manley, Sichuan Blue Whales, China
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

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Players Mentioned

Armando Bacot

RJ Davis

Dawson Garcia

Caleb Love

Brady Manek

Sterling Manley

Day'Ron Sharpe

Will Shaver