Men's Basketball Opens PKI Play At Portland On Thursday

GAME 5: PORTLAND
• Carolina hits the road for the first time this season when it travels to Portland, Ore., to compete in the Phil Knight Invitational on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
• The Tar Heels' next five games and seven of their next nine contests will be played at neutral or road sites, including three games in Portland.
• UNC begins play in the PKI against Portland on Thanksgiving Thursday, Nov. 24. Gametime is 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. local time) on ESPN.
• The Pilots are 4-2 after an 80-68 loss to Seattle on Nov. 19.
• The Tar Heels play either Iowa State or Villanova in round two on Friday. If UNC beats Portland, the Tar Heels would play at 5:30 p.m. Eastern (2:30 p.m. local) on ESPN. If Portland defeats UNC, the Tar Heels would play at 3 p.m. Eastern (Noon local) on ESPN2.
• The teams are off on Saturday before playing a third game in Portland on Sunday.
• Alabama, Connecticut, Michigan State and Oregon are on the other side of the bracket. One of those four teams will play UNC on Sunday.
• Carolina will leave Portland on Monday and fly to Bloomington, Ind., where the Tar Heels will play No. 11 Indiana in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
• Following the PKI and Indiana, UNC opens ACC play at Virginia Tech on Dec. 4.
• The Tar Heels' next home game isn't until Dec. 10 vs. Georgia Tech.

4-0
• The Tar Heels are 4-0 with home wins over UNCW, the College of Charleston, Gardner-Webb and James Madison.
• Carolina is 4-0 for first time since 2019-20. That was also the last time UNC opened the season with five straight wins.

UNC IN OREGON
• The Tar Heels are 8-1 all-time in the state of Oregon. That includes a 1-1 record in the Moda Center and 7-0 in Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
• UNC went 2-1 in PK80 in November 2017, The Tar Heels defeated Portland, 102-78, in round one in the Moda Center, beat Arkansas, 87-68, in the semifinals in the Coliseum, and lost to Michigan State, 63-45, in the championship game in the Moda Center.
• Carolina went 3-0 and won the Far West Classic in Portland in 1967-68 and 1976-77.
• In 1967, the fifth-ranked Tar Heels beat Stanford, Utah and Oregon State. In 1976, ninth-ranked UNC defeated Oral Roberts, Oregon and Weber State.
• Charlie Scott was the Far West Classic MVP in 1967; Walter Davis won the award in 1976.
• Luke Maye earned All-Tournament honors at PK80 in 2017.

SERIES RECORDS
• Carolina is 1-0 against Portland, defeating the Pilots, 102-78, in round one of PK80 at the Moda Center on 11/23/2017.
• Luke Maye had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Theo Pinson had 11 points, nine rebounds and seven assists to lead the Tar Heels.
• UNC is 3-1 all-time vs. Iowa State and 11-5 against Villanova, its possible second-round opponents.
• In the last meeting, the Cyclones beat the Tar Heels, 85-83, on a DeAndre Kane basket with 1.6 seconds left on 3/23/2013 in San Antonio, Texas, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina and Villanova have not played since 4/4/2016 in Houston, where the Wildcats' Kris Jenkins made a three at the buzzer to win, 77-74, in the NCAA championship game.
• UNC and Iowa State's previous four games have all been played at neutral sites. Twelve of the 16 games between UNC and Villanova, including the last four, have been contested at neutral sites.

LOVE 3 SHY OF 1,000
• Junior guard Caleb Love has scored 997 career points and needs three to become the 80th Tar Heel to score 1,000.
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 79 1,000-point scorers, including Armando Bacot, who scored his 1,000th point on 1/29/22 against NC State.
• Louisville is second all-time with 69 1,000-point scorers.

MOST 1,000-POINT SCORERS
All Schools
North Carolina 79
Louisville 69
Villanova 68
Duke 67
Kansas 65
Notre Dame 65
Syracuse 65
Kentucky 60
Ohio State 60
UCLA 59

NO. 1
• Carolina is No.1 in the nation in the Nov. 21 Associated Press poll.
• UNC was also No. 1 in the nation in the first two Associated Press polls this season.
• The Nov. 21 poll is the 113th time UNC is ranked No. 1 in an AP poll, fourth most in NCAA college basketball history.
• This was the 10th time the Tar Heels have been ranked No. 1 to begin a season (1977-78, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1993-94, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2022-23).
• UNC's 10 preseason No. 1 rankings are the most all-time, breaking a tie with Duke. UCLA is third with eight, Kentucky is fourth with six and Arizona, Indiana, Kansas and Michigan are tied with three.
• The season opener vs. UNCW was the Tar Heels' first as the AP's No. 1 team since 11/21/15, when it lost at Northern Iowa without injured senior guard Marcus Paige.
• Carolina's No. 1 ranking in the 2022-23 preseason poll marked the 66th season UNC has been ranked at least once in the 75-year history of the Associated Press poll. In 58 of those 66 seasons, the Tar Heels have been ranked at least one time in the top 10.
• This is the 21st season UNC has been ranked No. 1 in the AP poll at some point in the season. It's the first time UNC is the preseason No. 1 team since 2015-16; the Tar Heels played in the national championship game that year.
• Carolina also was preseason No. 1 this year in the coaches poll and Sports Illustrated, No. 2 in CBSSports.com and the Sporting News and No. 9 in KenPom.
• This was the 10th time UNC is No. 1 in the first coaches' poll (1957-58, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2022-23).
• Head coach Hubert Davis's Tar Heels were picked to finish No. 1 in the ACC at the conference's preseason media day in Charlotte.

TAR HEELS AS NO. 1
• Carolina is 192-31 as the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
• Dean Smith led UNC to 100 wins (100-18) in games as the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
• The Tar Heels were 50-7 as No. 1 under Roy Williams.
• UNC is 4-0 under Hubert Davis as No. 1.

RETURNING TAR HEELS
• Carolina returns four starters from last season's team that went 29-10 overall, 15-5 in the ACC, was the No. 3 seed in the ACC Tournament, No. 8 seed in the East Regional in the NCAA Tournament, won the NCAA East Regional and advanced to the national championship game.
• The four returning starters include graduate student small forward Leaky Black, senior forward/center Armando Bacot and junior guards RJ Davis and Caleb Love.
• UNC returns 71.2% of the scoring from a year ago in addition to 58.5% of its rebounding, 82.3% of its assists and 58.5% of its three-point field goals.
• Brady Manek, a fifth-year grad student from Oklahoma, averaged 15.1 points and 6.1 rebounds, made 98 threes, the second most in UNC single-season history, and led the ACC in three-point percentage (.403). Manek is currently playing professional basketball in Australia.

PRESEASON ACCOLADES
• Carolina is one of three teams (with Duke and Kentucky) with three players on the John R. Wooden Award preseason top 50. Armando Bacot, RJ Davis and Caleb Love are among the preseason players to watch.
• Bacot was one of five players named to the Associated Press's 2022-23 Preseason All-America team. Bacot is joined on the AP team by Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky), Drew Timme (Gonzaga), Trayce Jackson-Davis (Indiana) and Marcus Sasser (Houston).
• Bacot was chosen the Preseason ACC Player of the Year at the league's media day.
• Bacot also was named a preseason first-team All-America by The Sporting News, The Athletic, CBSSports.com, Fox, Blue Ribbon Yearbook, Dick Vitale, College Hoops Today and Field of 68.
• Davis was named preseason first-team All-America by Lindy's. He received second-team All-America recognition from Dick Vitale and third team from College Hoops Today.
• Davis was selected to the All-ACC third team at the league's media day and was also chosen by Lindy's as part of the No. 1 backcourt in the country with junior guard Caleb Love.
• Love was named to the preseason All-ACC team and a second-team All-America by The Athletic, CBSSports.com, College Hoops Today and Dick Vitale.
• Lindy's tabbed Love as the top playmaker and most entertaining player in the ACC.
• Field of 68 chose Pete Nance as the No. 2 transfer player to watch. Nance previously played four seasons at Northwestern, where he led the Wildcats last season in scoring, rebounding, three-point percentage and blocks. He scored 1,025 points (9.6 per game) in 107 career games.
• The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced preseason watch lists for its positional awards and four Tar Heels were named to the respective lists: Caleb Love (Bob Cousy Award for point guards), Leaky Black (Julius Erving Award for small forwards), Pete Nance (Karl Malone Award for power forwards) and Armando Bacot (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award for centers).
• Bacot (No. 3), Love (No. 10), Davis (No. 31) and Black (No. 95) were named among CBSSports.com's top 100 players.
• Three Tar Heels – Bacot, Davis and Love – are among 20 players on the NABC Player of the Year watch list. UNC is the only team with three players on the NABC list (Baylor has two).

IN THE RECORD BOOK
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 79 1,000-point scorers, including Armando Bacot, who scored his 1,000th point on 1/29/22 against NC State. Caleb Love needs three points and RJ Davis needs 165 to reach the 1,000-point mark.
• Bacot set UNC single-season records last year with 511 rebounds, 31 double-doubles, five 20-rebound games (tied), 32 games with 10 or more rebounds, rebounds in an NCAA Tournament and rebounds by a Tar Heel in the Elite 8, national semifinal and national championship games.
• Bacot became the first player in NCAA Tournament history with six double-doubles in one year and tied the NCAA single-season record for double-doubles with 31 (Navy's David Robinson also had 31 in 1985-86).
• Bacot grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds in UNC's last game, an 80-64 win over previously unbeaten James Madison. Bacot's 23 rebounds (and Leaky Black's career-high 12 boards) helped the Tar Heels out-rebound the Dukes, 50-34. JMU had entered the game with a plus 18.3 rebound margin in its first four games.
• Bacot's 23 rebounds marked his sixth career game with 20 or more, 18th with 15 or more and 57th in double figures.
• Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham is the only Tar Heel with more games with 10 or more rebounds – Cunningham accomplished that 61 times.
• Bacot is third in UNC history in double-doubles (50) and offensive rebounds per game (3.44), sixth in rebounds per game (10.1) and sixth in rebounds (1,048). The Richmond, Va., native is one of eight Tar Heels to average a career double-double (13.2/10.1).
• Sean May and Bacot are the only Tar Heels to average a double-double over a career in the last 50 seasons.
• Bacot passed Antawn Jamison and Brice Johnson in the JMU game for sixth all-time in rebounds by a Tar Heel. He needs 10 to pass Kennedy Meeks and 20 to pass Cunningham.
• Leaky Black has played in 126 games in four-plus seasons. He could break Deon Thompson's school record for games played (152).
• Black is one of two Tar Heels to start at least 100 career games. Bacot has made 103 starts and Black has 101.
• Caleb Love and RJ Davis rank tied for fifth and seventh, respectively, in UNC history in free throw percentage.
• Love has made 83.9% from the line and Davis has converted 83.7%.

MILLER, WILLIAMS INDUCTED INTO COLLEGE HALL
• Larry Miller, the only Tar Heel to twice earn ACC Player of the Year and ACC Tournament MVP honors, and three-time national championship winning head coach Roy Williams were inducted in the NABC College Basketball Hall of Fame Sunday in Kansas City.
• Williams has been a member of the College Hall of Fame since it opened in 2009 by virtue of his being enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2007, but was formally inducted in the college hall.
• Miller joined a class that included John Beilein, Jim Calhoun, Richard Hamilton, Jerry Krause, Lon Kruger, Frank Selvy and Jimmy Walker.
• Miller and Williams are among 13 Tar Heels in the College Basketball Hall of Fame with Larry Brown, Ben Carnevale, Billy Cunningham, Phil Ford, Antawn Jamison, Bob McAdoo, Frank McGuire, Sam Perkins, Charlie Scott, Dean Smith and James Worthy.
• In September, George Karl was inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame. Karl, who played at UNC from 1970-73, became the 12th Tar Heel enshrined in Springfield with Brown, Carnevale, Cunningham, Bobby Jones, Michael Jordan, McAdoo, McGuire, Scott, Smith, Williams and James Worthy.

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Players Mentioned

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

RJ Davis

Caleb Love

Pete Nance