Senior Night Monday Vs. Syracuse

GAME 30
• Carolina hosts Syracuse in its final home of the season at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 28 (ESPN).
• The Tar Heels are 21-8 overall, 13-5 in the ACC. UNC has won its last three games, including road wins at Virginia Tech and NC State and a home win a week ago over Louisville.
• Senior game ceremonies honoring Leaky Black, Brady Manek and Ryan McAdoo are set to begin at 6:40 p.m.
• Carolina is in third place in the ACC at 13-5, two games behind Duke and a game behind Notre Dame. The Tar Heels have clinched a bye on day one of the ACC Tournament and would clinch a top four seed and a double bye with a win over Syracuse.
• The Tar Heels are coming off an 84-74 win at NC State on Saturday. Carolina has eight wins in its last nine games against the Wolfpack at PNC Arena.
• Armando Bacot had 28 points, 18 rebounds and five blocks (all game highs), becoming the first Tar Heel ever to compile at least 20 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks in a game.
• Brady Manek scored 14 of his 16 points in the first half and made his 299th and 300th career three-pointers.
• Puff Johnson played a career-high 29 minutes and scored a career-high 16 points (12 in the second half).
• Johnson saw extra time as Leaky Black hyper-extended his right knee late in the first half and did not return to the game.
• Caleb Love played all 40 minutes for the second game in a row, the first Tar Heel to do so since Ed Cota in the 2000 NCAA Tournament.

BACOT ON A HISTORIC RUN
• ACC Player-of-the-Year candidate Armando Bacot is on pace to lead the ACC in field goal percentage and rebounding for the ninth time in 69 seasons and in field goal percentage, rebounding and double-doubles for just the sixth time ever (with Duke's Marvin Bagley in 2018, Wake Forest's Tim Duncan in 1997, Clemson's Dale Davis in 1990, Clemson's Horace Grant in 1987 and Virginia's Ralph Sampson in 1983).
• Duncan is the only ACC player with higher scoring and rebound averages and a higher field goal percentage than Bacot.
• Bacot is averaging 16.3 points and 12.5 rebounds, shooting 59.1% and has blocked 52 shots. No other Tar Heel has ever reached all four of those numbers in a season.
• Bacot is averaging an astounding 14.3 rebounds over the first 18 ACC games. That is the highest average in league play since Wake Forest's Tim Duncan averaged 14.9 in 16 games in 1996-97.
• Bacot's 14.3 rebounds in ACC games are the fourth highest ever by a Tar Heel. Billy Cunningham averaged 16.6 in 1962-63, 16.0 in 1963-64 and 14.4 in 1964-65.
• Bacot has 22 double-doubles and is one from tying Brice Johnson's single-season record in 2015-16.
• Bacot had 18 rebounds at NC State (which tied the UNC record for rebounds in a game against the Wolfpack), his 23rd game this season with 10 or more, which tied the record Johnson set in 2015-16.

UNC-SYRACUSE ALL-TIME
• Carolina is 14-6 against the Orange, including 10-3 since Syracuse joined the ACC.
• The Tar Heels are 5-0 in the Smith Center, including last season's 81-75 win on 1/12/21.

LAST SEASON IN CHAPEL HILL
• Armando Bacot (15/12) and Garrison Brooks (16/10) had double-doubles for the Tar Heels in their 81-75 win.
• RJ Davis made two threes and added a dozen points.
• The game was tied at 40 the half and as late as 3:00 left in the game. Bacot made consecutive field goals with 1:22 and 58 seconds to play to extend Carolina's lead to 75-70.
• Carolina had 24 offensive rebounds (Syracuse had 21 defensive rebounds) that led to 24 second-chance points.
• Leaky Black had seven assists and blocked a career-high three shots.

LAST SEASON IN SYRACUSE
• Carolina committed 20 turnovers that led to 28 Syracuse points in the Orange's two-point win.
• Syracuse made 15 steals that helped the Orange amass 20 fastbreak points.
• Carolina outrebounded Syracuse, 53-33, including a 26-13 advantage on the offensive boards that led to 25 second-chance points for the Tar Heels.
• Syracuse outscored UNC 24 to 12 from the three-point line. The Orange made 7 of 17 threes in the first half, while the Tar Heels went 0 for 10 in the opening stanza and 4 for 20 for the game.
• Bacot led UNC with 18 points and 15 rebounds (eight offensive).
• Garrison Brooks (11) and Caleb Love (10) also scored in double figures.
• Buddy Boeheim scored 17 first-half points for the Orange. When the teams played in Chapel Hill on 1/12/21, he scored 18 first-half points but was held scoreless in the second. In the game at Syracuse, he added nine in the second to finish with a game-high 26.

300 FOR BRADY
• Brady Manek, a 6-9 power forward, came to UNC with a track record for making three-pointers. He made 235 in four seasons at Oklahoma, becoming the tallest player in Big 12 history to make 200 threes.
• Manek leads the team with 65 threes. Manek is third in percentage at .385, which is .002 ahead of his previous career-best .383 as a freshman at Oklahoma.
• His two threes in the first half at NC State on Saturday gave him 300 career three-pointers.
• Manek has made at least one three-pointer in 123 of 151 games and multiple threes 79 times (at least one in 27 of 29 games as a Tar Heel with two or more 16 times).
• Manek is averaging 2.24 threes per game this season, the second-most by a Tar Heel who measured 6-9 or taller behind only Cameron Johnson, who averaged 2.67 threes in earning first-team All-ACC honors in 2018-19.
• Johnson and Reggie Bullock are the only Tar Heels to play significant time at power forward (the 4) and average more threes per game than Manek, who plays almost exclusively at the 4. Bullock averaged 2.34 threes in 2012-13, when UNC played four perimeter players around James Michael McAdoo at the 5. Johnson also split time at the 3 and 4 in 2018-19.
• Manek is one of three Tar Heels 6-9 or taller to make 50 threes in a season. Cameron Johnson made 96 in 36 games in 2018-19, Ademola Okulaja made 59 in 34 games in 1998-99 and Manek has made 65 in 29 games.

DAVIS'S AND LOVE'S IMPROVEMENT
• Sophomores RJ Davis and Caleb Love have started every game in the backcourt this season. Both are averaging more than 32 minutes per game.
• Davis and Love have combined for 28.5 points and 7.0 assists per game. A year ago as freshmen, they combined for 18.9 points and 5.5 assists.
• They have made a combined 113 three-pointers.
• Davis leads the team in three-point percentage (.398) and is second in free throw shooting (.805); Love leads the team at the FT line (.856) and is second from three (.388).
• Love made a career-high six three-pointers in Carolina's win over Florida State, including five in the first half as UNC built a 38-point lead.
• Davis hit a career-high six three-pointers in November in a 26-point outing against Brown.
• Love is making 38.8% of his three-point attempts, up from 26.6% a year ago. Davis has improved from 32.3 to 39.8%.
• In Carolina's 21 wins, Love and Davis are shooting 43.1% and 43.0%, respectively from three. In the eight losses, Davis has made 30.0% and Love 26.2% from three.

BLACK SIXTH TAR HEEL ON VERSATILE LIST
• Leaky Black became the sixth Tar Heel to amass 500 career points, 400 rebounds, 200 assists, 100 steals and 50 blocks.
• The only other Tar Heels to hit each mark are James Worthy, George Lynch, Jackie Manuel, David Noel and Danny Green.
• ESPN analyst Jay Bilas listed Black as one of three players to consider for ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors.
• The Concord, N.C., native is shooting career best percentages from the floor (.500), from three (.419) and the free throw line (.867).
• Black is 28 of 45 (.622) from the floor, 11 for 21 threes and 14 of 16 free throws in the last 11 games.
• Carolina is 11-0 this season when the senior has three or more assists.

BACOT'S BIG YEAR
• Nationally, Bacot is third in rebounding, tied for third in double-doubles, fifth in offensive boards and 19th in field goal percentage.
• The last player to lead the ACC in rebounding, field goal percentage and double-doubles was Duke's Marvin Bagley III, who was named the ACC Player of the Year in 2018.
• No Tar Heel has ever led the ACC in rebounding and field goal percentage in the same season.
• Bacot has 10 or more rebounds 23 times this season, which equals the UNC single-season record with Brice Johnson, who accomplished that 23 times in 40 games in 2015-16.

Most games double-figure REBOUNDS — season
23 Armando Bacot, 2021-22 (in 29 games)
23 Brice Johnson, 2015-16 (in 40 games)
22 Billy Cunningham, 1963-64
21 John Henson, 2011-12
21 John Henson, 2010-11
21 Antawn Jamison, 1997-98
21 Billy Cunningham, 1962-63

• Bacot's 12.5 rebounds per game are on pace for the fifth-highest average by a Tar Heel and the highest since Billy Cunningham averaged 14.3 in 1964-65.
• Only one player in the ACC has averaged that many rebounds in the last 24 seasons. Notre Dame's John Mooney led the league with 12.7 per game in 2019-20.

Highest rebounding average – season
16.1 Billy Cunningham, 1962-63
15.8 Billy Cunningham, 1963-64
14.3 Billy Cunningham, 1964-65
14.0 Doug Moe, 1960-61
12.5 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

• Bacot has 852 career rebounds, 17th most in UNC history. He passed Larry Miller and Brendan Haywood at NC State. Pete Brennan is 16th with 854 and Scott Williams is next with 861.

REBOUNDS – CAREER
14. 885 John Henson, 2009-12
15. 861 Scott Williams, 1986-90
16. 854 Pete Brennan, 1955-58
17. 852 Armando Bacot, 2019-
18. 839 Brendan Haywood, 1997-2001

• Bacot has the ninth-highest career rebounding average by a Tar Heel at 9.5 per game. He has the highest career average since Sean May, who averaged 10.0 from 2002-05.

Highest rebounding average — career
15.4 Billy Cunningham, 1962-65
10.6 Doug Moe, 1958-61
10.5 Pete Brennan, 1955-58
10.4 Lennie Rosenbluth, 1954-57
10.3 Rusty Clark, 1966-69
10.0 Sean May, 2002-05
10.0 Bud Maddie, 1953-54
9.9 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
9.5 Armando Bacot, 2019-
9.2 Larry Miller, 1965-68

• Bacot leads Carolina in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocks. He also led UNC in those categories last season. No Tar Heel has ever led in those four categories in consecutive seasons.
• Bacot leads the ACC by 4.1 rebounds per game.
• Bacot had a streak of 13 straight games with double-digit rebounds from December 14 through February 1. That was the third-longest streak of games with 10 or more rebounds in UNC history.

Consecutive games/10 OR MORE REBOUNDS
41 Billy Cunningham, 1962-64
15 John Henson, 2010-11
13 Armando Bacot, 2021-22
11 Doug Moe, 1959-61
11 Doug Moe, 1960-61

• Bacot has 20 or more rebounds three times this season – 22 against Virginia on January 8, 20 against Virginia Tech on January 24 and 22 at Louisville on February 1. The Virginia and Virginia Tech games were just the fourth and fifth times in Smith Center history a player had 20 or more rebounds (Sean May did it three times).
• Bacot is the third Tar Heel to have three 20-rebound games in a season. Cunningham had five in 1963-64, four in 1962-63 and three in 1964-65, Rosenbluth had three in 1954-55 and Bacot has three this season (three in 25 days).
• Bacot has the fifth-highest career offensive rebounding average by a Tar Heel since offensive rebounds were recorded beginning in 1986-87.

MOST OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS per game – CAREER
(since 1986-87)
3.61 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
3.47 Sean May, 2002-05
3.39 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-09
3.34 Day'Ron Sharpe, 2020-21
3.19 Armando Bacot (287 in 90 games)
3.06 George Lynch, 1989-93

BACOT ONE FROM DOUBLE-DOUBLE MARK
• Armando Bacot is tied for third nationally with 22 double-doubles. Fardaws Aimaq of Utah Valley has 25, Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky has 23 and Bacot and Johni Broome of Morehead State have 22.
• Bacot's 22 double-doubles equal the second-most in a season by a Tar Heel. He is one from tying Brice Johnson's record.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES (POINTS & REBOUNDS) – SEASON
23 Brice Johnson, 2015-16
22 Armando Bacot, 2021-22
22 Billy Cunningham, 1963-64
21 Antawn Jamison, 1997-98
20 Mitch Kupchak, 1974-75
20 Billy Cunningham, 1962-63
20 Doug Moe, 1960-61

• Bacot has four more double-doubles this season than he had combined in his first two seasons (18).
• Bacot had 10-straight double-doubles from Furman on December 14 through Virginia Tech on January 22. That was the longest streak by a Tar Heel since Cunningham in 1964-65. Bacot's 10-game streak equaled the fourth-longest by a Tar Heel.
• Bacot has double-doubles in 75.9% of Carolina's games this season, the fourth-highest percentage in UNC history and the highest since 1964.

PCT. OF DOUBLE-DOUBLE GAMES – SEASON
Career 2X-2X Games Pct.
Billy Cunningham, 1962-63 20 21 .952
Billy Cunningham, 1963-64 22 24 .917
Doug Moe, 1960-61 20 23 .870
Armando Bacot, 2021-22 22 29 .759
Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 18 24 .750

• Bacot has 40 career double-doubles, eighth most by a Tar Heel.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES (POINTS & REBOUNDS) – CAREER
60 Billy Cunningham, 1962-65
51 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
47 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-09
47 Sam Perkins, 1980-84
44 Mitch Kupchak, 1972-76
43 Rusty Clark, 1966-69
42 Larry Miller, 1965-68
40 Armando Bacot, 2019-
39 Lennie Rosenbluth, 1954-57
37 John Henson, 2009-12

• Bacot has 40 career double-doubles in 90 games. His double-double rate (44.4%) is the eighth highest by a Tar Heel and the third highest in the last 50 years.

PCT. OF DOUBLE-DOUBLE GAMES – CAREER
Career 2X-2X 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
Armando Bacot, 2019-active 40 90 .444
Pete Brennan, 1955-58 35 81 .432
Sean May, 2002-05 33 77 .429

79TH 1,000-POINT SCORER
• Bacot became the 79th player to score 1,000 points as a Tar Heel. UNC has more 1,000-point scorers than any other school in NCAA history (Louisville is second with 69).
• Bacot became the first Tar Heel to score 1,000 points in three seasons since Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson, who both hit the 1,000-point mark as juniors in 2017.
• Bacot has 1,139 points. He passed Isaiah Hicks, Brian Reese, John Henson and Jeff McInnis with his 28-point performance at NC State. Pete Chilcutt is 64th at UNC with 1,150.

Scoring – CAREER
61. 1,191 George Glamack, 1938-41
62. 1,187 Jerry Vayda, 1952-56
63. 1,165 Matt Doherty, 1980-84
64. 1,150 Pete Chilcutt, 1987-91
65. 1,139 Armando Bacot, 2019-

HOME IN THE DEAN DOME
• Carolina is 14-2 in the Smith Center this season, including 7-2 in ACC play.
• A win over Syracuse would be UNC's 15th home victory this season. That would equal the fourth most wins in 37 seasons in the Smith Center and the most since the 2016-17 team went 15-1 in the Smith Center.
• Carolina has an average winning margin of 12.0 points at home this season. The Tar Heels have allowed just 65.6 points in the Smith Center this season.
• The Tar Heels have made 39.1% from three-point range at home.

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC free throw shooting at 76.5%, their second-best percentage ever (78.3% in 1983-84).
• Last season, UNC shot 66.8%.
• Carolina has led the ACC in free throw percentage eight times but not since 1987-88. Current assistant coach Jeff Lebo shot 87.8% as a junior and senior Ranzino Smith shot 89.7% that season.
• Carolina has made 80% or better from the free throw line 13 times this season. UNC made a season-best 91.3% on 21 of 23 shooting at NC State.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE
.783 in 1983-84 (551 of 704)
.765 in 2021-22 (407 of 532)
.761 in 1984-85 (569 of 748)
.758 in 1959-60 (542 of 715)
.757 in 2007-08 (738 of 975)

• Senior forward Leaky Black (.867) and sophomore guards Caleb Love (.856) and RJ Davis (.805) lead UNC at the stripe this season.
• Love has moved up to sixth (.836) all-time at UNC in free throw percentage.

SCORING ODDS AND ENDS
• Five Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Armando Bacot has scored 20 or more nine times, Caleb Love has eight, Brady Manek five and RJ Davis and Dawson Garcia each have three 20-point games.
• Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points 28 times in 29 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. UNC did not have any games last season when two players scored 20 or more points.
• Carolina is 10-0 over two seasons when Love scores 20 or more (8-0 this season).
• Carolina is 16-0 when leading at the half.
• Carolina is 10-1 when scoring 80 or more points.

THREE-POINTERS
• Carolina made a season-high 15 three-pointers on January 29 against NC State and is averaging 8.31 per game, on pace for the second highest average in UNC history.
• Carolina is making 0.2 more threes per game than its opponents. This is the first time the Tar Heels are on pace to make more three-pointers than their opponents since 2012-13 and just the sixth time ever (1982-83, 1986-87, 2002-03, 2005-06 and 2012-13).

Three-Pointers Per Game – Last 10 Years
2021-22 8.31
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

Three-Pointers Per Game – SEASON
2018-19 8.67
2021-22 8.31
2002-03 8.29
1982-83 (experimental distance) 8.25
2017-18 8.24

CLEANING THE BOARDS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC and are 10th in the country in rebound margin at plus 7.6 per game. UNC also leads the league and is 19th nationally in rebounds per game (39.6).
• The Tar Heels have averaged 40 or more rebounds for the past seven seasons.
• 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 26 times in 29 games this season. The Tar Heels are 21-5 when out-rebounding their opponents and 0-3 when getting out-rebounded (Tennessee, Kentucky and Duke).
• Under Roy Williams the Tar Heels won 82.3% of the games they out-rebounded their opponents. The Tar Heels were victorious in 46.8% of the games they were out-rebounded under Williams.

10 ACC WINS ... AGAIN
• Carolina is 13-5 in ACC play.
• This is the 45th time in 69 seasons of ACC Basketball the Tar Heels have won at least 10 regular-season conference games.
• UNC has won 13 or more 16 times and 14 or more 11 times.
• That is five more 10-win seasons than Duke, which is second with 40. NC State (16), Virginia (15) and Wake Forest (13) are next. Those three schools combined have one fewer 10-win season than UNC.

SEASONS WITH 10 OR MORE ACC WINS
45 North Carolina
40 Duke
16 NC State
15 Virginia
13 Wake Forest
10 Florida State

MISCELLANEOUS
• The Tar Heels are 14-1 this season when scoring more points off turnovers and 6-7 when the opponents score more points off turnovers. The only loss was against Pittsburgh, when the Tar Heels scored 24 points off Pitt turnovers, while the Panthers scored 22. However, Pitt scored 20 of its 22 points off turnovers in the first half as the Panthers built a 17-point lead.
• Turnovers and the opponents cashing in on those errors have been a major storyline this season. Carolina has turned the ball over 12.4 times per game in its eight losses, which have led to 166 points, an average of 20.8 points per game.
• Miami turned UNC's miscues into 30 points in a 28-point Hurricane victory in Coral Gables. In seven of the eight losses the opponents have scored at least 19 points off turnovers.
• Carolina is 17-0 this season when the opponents shoot at or under 45% from the floor.
• Carolina has won six times this season when it allowed fewer than 60 points (53 by UNC Asheville, 51 by Michigan, 50 by App State, 58 by Virginia, 47 by Boston College and 57 by Virginia Tech in Blacksburg).
• The Tar Heels have held the opponents to 65 or fewer points in 12 of their 21 wins.
• Carolina is 10-0 this season when shooting 50% (under Roy Williams UNC was 220-9 when shooting 50% from the floor).
• Carolina is holding its opponents to 66.1 points in its 21 victories. The opponents are averaging 88.0 points in UNC's eight losses.
• The Tar Heels are minus 10 in assist-turnovers (89 assists/99 turnovers) in the eight losses, while the opponents are plus 66 (143 assists/77 turnovers).

DAVIS ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT
• The College Sports Information Directors of America selected RJ Davis to the 2021-22 Academic All-District Men's Basketball Team. CoSIDA's Academic All-America program recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom.
• First-team Academic All-District onorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America allot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in mid-March.
• Davis is one of five players selected to the District 3 team with Bethel's Luke Smith, Chattanooga's Malachi Smith, Tennessee's Santiago Vescovi and Vanderbilt's Jordan Wright. Davis has a 3.31 grade point average working toward a major in exercise and sports science.
• The White Plains, N.Y., native is one of three Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball players to receive academic all-district recognition with Syracuse's Jimmy Boeheim (District 1) and Florida State's Harrison Prieto (District 4).

GARCIA OUT REST OF THE SEASON
• Dawson Garcia announced on February 10 he will not return to the team this season to remain home in Minnesota to continue to help with family medical issues.
• Garcia played in 16 games this season for the Tar Heels before returning home Jan. 24 due to illnesses in his family.
• He averaged 9.0 points and 5.5 rebounds in 16 games, scoring in double figures five times with a season-high 26 vs. Purdue in November.
• Garcia said in a statement: "I cannot thank everyone enough for the unbelievable support that has automatically been given to me while I flew home to support my family. Not everyone will understand, but those who know our family are very aware of the circumstances and challenges we are facing. As much as I love this University and basketball, being in the middle of a health crisis is where our family is right now and it's where I need to be. After the loss of several very special family members this past year, I came close to losing my dad in December and my grandma is currently in the ICU. With my dad recovering and my grandma fighting for her life, it's not even a question to me where I need to be right now.
My family is my world and I will always be there for them. The past few months have quickly changed my perspective on life and I have put this into God's hands and trust His guidance.Times like this bring out the beauty in God's people and I thank all of Tar Heel Nation, my coaches and my teammates for all the love and support. I thank you for lifting us up with your powerful prayers. The University, this team and fans are special. Go Tar Heels."

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