MBB Looks To Rebound At Indiana Wednesday

GAME 7: AT INDIANA
• Carolina plays at No. 10 Indiana in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind.
• Gametime is 9:15 p.m. (ESPN).
• The Tar Heels have lost two straight. UNC beat Portland in the first round of the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland, Ore., on Thanksgiving, then lost, 70-65, to Iowa State on November 25 and 103-101 in four overtimes to Alabama on November 27.
• Caleb Love averaged 23.0 points in the three games in Portland and was named to the PKI all-tournament team.
• The Tar Heels fell 14 spots to No. 15 in this week's coaches' poll and 17 spots to No. 18 in the AP poll.
• Carolina has lost consecutive games for the first time since last January at Miami and Wake Forest. UNC last lost three in a row in 2019-20, when it dropped seven straight in ACC play.
• The Indiana game is Carolina's fourth of five consecutive away from Chapel Hill. UNC opens ACC play at Virginia Tech on Dec. 4.
• The Tar Heels' next home game isn't until Dec. 10 vs. Georgia Tech.
• Indiana is the first of three games against Big Ten opponents in the next six games – UNC plays Ohio State Dec. 18 in Madison Square Garden in New York in the CBS Sports Classic and Michigan Dec. 21 in Charlotte in the Jumpman Invitational.

UNC-INDIANA
• UNC is 6-9 all-time vs. Indiana, the third-most games against an opponent whom UNC does not have a winning record.
• The Tar Heels are 2-4 at Indiana, including 2-2 in Assembly Hall.
• IU defeated Carolina, 76-67, on Nov. 30, 2016, in the most recent matchup, which was played in Bloomington. The Tar Heels were No. 3 in the AP poll and were coming off winning the Maui Invitational. UNC went on to win the NCAA championship that season.
• This is the fourth game in the last five between UNC and Indiana that is being played in Bloomington. The other was the 2016 NCAA East Regional Sweet 16 game that UNC won in Philadelphia.
• UNC is 1-3 against the Hoosiers in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The Tar Heels won in Assembly Hall in 2004-05; Indiana won in Chapel Hill in 2001-02 and in Bloomington in 2012-13 and 2016-17.

ACC-BIG TEN CHALLENGE
• Carolina is 11-12 all-time in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, including 1-3 against Indiana.
• The Tar Heels are 3-7 on the road in the Challenge (1-2 in Assembly Hall).
• This is UNC's fifth game against Indiana in the Challenge, which ties Michigan State for the most games against the Tar Heels in the Challenge.
• Indiana is ranked No. 10 in the AP poll. The Hoosiers are the 20th ranked opponent the Tar Heels will have played in the 24 seasons of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. That includes 12 opponents ranked in the top 10 in the AP poll.
• The ACC announced this week the league will begin a series against the Southeastern Conference beginning in 2023-24.

FOUR OVERTIMES
• Carolina lost the third-place game in the Phil Knight Invitational, 103-101, to Alabama in Portland, Ore., on Sunday.
• It was the second four-overtime game in UNC history and the first since Carolina beat Tulane, 113-106, in New Orleans on Feb. 14, 1976. Mitch Kupchak had 35 points and 21 rebounds, Walter Davis scored 26 and Phil Ford had 22 points and seven assists in a school-record 58 minutes played.
• It was just the third time in 211 games UNC lost when scoring 100 points.
• Caleb Love, who was named to the PKI All-Tournament team, scored a career-high 34 points against the Tide. Armando Bacot had 20 points and 10 rebounds and RJ Davis scored 19 points.
• Alabama came into the game No. 1 in the country in rebounding and rebound margin and out-rebounded the Tar Heels, 58-54, but UNC out-scored the Tide, 18-15, in second-chance points.
• The Tar Heels trailed by three at the half, led by eight with just under nine minutes to play in regulation and had numerous opportunities to win the game at the end of the second half and in overtime.
• Carolina, which was 3-0 in overtime games a season ago, had not played a triple overtime game since 2003-04 (a 119-114 loss to Wake Forest).
• More details on the Alabama game and the other two games in Portland on page 10 of these notes.

LOVE JOINS THE 1,000-POINT CLUB
• Junior guard Caleb Love became the 80th Tar Heel to score 1,000 points, surpassing the mark in the opening moments of the win over Portland on Thanksgiving Day.
• Love, who now has 1,066 points, scored his 1,000th point in his 73rd game, the fewest games needed since Harrison Barnes hit the mark in his 61st game as a Tar Heel. Love was the 12th Tar Heel to score 1,000 since Barnes got there in 2012.
• Love was the 29th-fastest Tar Heel to score 1,000 points among the program's 80 1,000-point scorers.
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 80 1,000-point scorers, including Love and Armando Bacot, who scored his 1,000th point on 1/29/22 against NC State.
• Bacot has 1,417 points.
• Louisville is second all-time with 69 1,000-point scorers.

MOST 1,000-POINT SCORERS
All Schools
North Carolina 80
Louisville 69
Villanova 68
Duke 67
Kansas 65
Notre Dame 65
Syracuse 65
Kentucky 60
Ohio State 60
UCLA 59

NO. 1
• UNC was also No. 1 in the nation in the first three Associated Press polls this season.
• The Nov. 21 poll was the 113th time UNC was 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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 80 1,000-point scorers, including Caleb Love and Armando Bacot. RJ Davis needs 118 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 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, on Nov. 20. 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 and 18th with 15 or more.
• Bacot had 10 rebounds against Alabama, his 59th game with 10 or more. 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 tied for second in UNC history in double-doubles (52), second in offensive rebounds per game (3.49), fourth in rebounds (1,080) and sixth in rebounds per game (10.1). 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 needs 18 rebounds to pass George Lynch for third all-time at UNC.
• Leaky Black has played in 129 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 106 starts and Black has 104.
• Love played 57:24 in Carolina's four-overtime loss to Alabama. That is the second-highest minutes played in a game by a Tar Heel. Phil Ford played 58 minutes in a four-OT win at Tulane in 1976.
• RJ Davis and Caleb Love rank fifth and seventh, respectively, in UNC history in free throw percentage.

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 Nov. 20 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.

NOVEMBER SIGNEES
• Carolina signed two players to National Letters of Intent in November 2022.
• Zayden High, a 6-10 forward from San Antonio, Texas. High attends AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Ariz., where he plays for Coach Ed Gipson.
• Simeon Wilcher, a 6-5 guard from Plainfield, N.J. Wilcher plays for Coach Dave Boff at Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, N.J.

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