Tar Heels Host Duke For Saturday Night Showdown

GAME 23
• Carolina and Duke meet for the 256th time overall and the 37th time in the Dean E. Smith Center when the teams play Saturday, February 5, at 6 p.m. (ESPN).
• The Tar Heels won both games against the Blue Devils last season, winning 91-87 at Cameron Indoor Stadium and 91-73 in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina has won its last four games, played over a nine-day stretch, including three at home and 90-83 in overtime at Louisville on Tuesday.
• Brady Manek led UNC with 24 points, Armando Bacot had 19 points and 22 rebounds, RJ Davis made four threes en route to 18 points and Leaky Black scored a season-best 13 points in Carolina's road win over the Cardinals.
• The Tar Heels are 16-6 overall, 8-3 in the ACC. Duke is 18-3, 8-2.
• UNC is 12-0 at the Smith Center this season and 22-1 over the last two seasons. The Blue Devils are 3-2 on the road this year.

UNC-DUKE ALL-TIME
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 141-114 (255 games are more than any other opponent for the Tar Heels).
• Carolina is 65-37 in Chapel Hill vs. the Blue Devils, including 20-16 in the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 48-49 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 39 of the ACC's 66 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 21 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 32 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 41 seasons.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 41 seasons – five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16.
• Hubert Davis was 6-5 as a player against the Blue Devils, including 2-2 at the Smith Center.
• The teams have three sets of high school teammates. UNC's RJ Davis and Duke's AJ Griffin played at Archbishop Stepanic in White Plains, N.Y.; UNC's Leaky Black played as a senior at Cox Mill High School in Concord, N.C., with Duke's Wendell Moore; and Anthony Harris (UNC), Trevor Keels and Jeremy Roach (Duke) played at St. Paul VI in Fairfax, Va.

ESPN'S GAMEDAY RETURNING TO CHAPEL HILL
• ESPN's GameDay is live from the Smith Center on Saturday for the Carolina-Duke game.
• This is the ninth time GameDay is originating from Chapel Hill and the 22nd time the Tar Heels are playing in a game featured on GameDay.
• This is the 13th time GameDay has featured the Carolina-Duke game, more than any other matchup in college basketball.
• Host Rece Davis and analysts Jay Bilas, LaPhonso Ellis and Seth Greenberg will host the show from 11 a.m. to noon. Bilas will call the game that evening with Dan Shulman and Holly Rowe.
• Fans are welcome to attend GameDay. Admission is free. Doors will open at 9:30 a.m.

BACOT ADDS TO NCAA RECORD
• Junior forward/center Armando Bacot (Richmond, Va.) scored 18 points against NC State to become 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.

DEFENSE, MISCELLANEOUS
• Carolina has the fourth highest defensive efficiency in the ACC (KenPom). UNC is allowing 97.7 points per 100 possessions. Duke (14th), Wake Forest (51st) and Florida State (71st) are the only ACC schools rated higher in defensive efficiency this season.
• Even with NC State scoring 80 points (33 of which came in the final 10 minutes after UNC built a 33-point lead) the Tar Heels are allowing only 62.5 points per game at the Smith Center this season. Carolina has outscored the opposition by an average of 16.1 points per game in 12 games at home.
• Carolina has held five opponents to fewer than 60 points at home, including a season-low 47 by
Boston College.
• The 62.5 points are on pace to match the fewest scored by the opponents at home in the shot clock era.

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

• Prior to NC State scoring 80 in Carolina's 100-80 victory the Tar Heels had held the opponents under 70 points in 11 consecutive wins for the first time since 2006-07, when it did that in 15 straight wins.
• Carolina has won five times this season when it allowed fewer than 60 points (53 by UNC Asheville, 51 by Michigan, 50 by App State, 58 by Virginia and 47 by Boston College).
• Carolina shot 54.8% from the floor against NC State, the seventh time this season the Tar Heels made at least half their shots from the floor. Carolina is 7-0 this season when shooting 50% (under Roy Williams UNC was 220-9 when shooting 50% from the floor).
• The Tar Heels are 22nd nationally in KenPom's offensive efficiency, scoring 113.4 points per 100 possessions. That is fourth in the ACC behind Duke (15th), Syracuse (16th) and Miami (19th).
• Carolina's starters have averaged 35.3 minutes over the last four games, playing 175 minutes vs. Virginia Tech, 179 vs. Boston College, 147 vs. NC State and 204 in an overtime win at Louisville.
• Carolina's wins over Virginia Tech (1/24), Boston College (1/26) and NC State (1/29) marked the first time UNC followed consecutive losses by 10 or points with at least three straight wins by double figures since the 2000-01 season. In that season, the Tar Heels lost to Michigan State by 13 and Kentucky by 17 then defeated Miami by 22, Texas A&M by 22, Buffalo by 21, UCLA by 10 and UMass by 31.

BACOT AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
• Armando Bacot is second in the country in double-doubles with 17, third in rebounding at 12.6 per game and fourth in offensive rebounding (3.8).
• He leads the ACC in double-doubles, rebounding and offensive rebounds, is third in field goal percentage, sixth in blocks and seventh in scoring.
• Bacot leads Carolina in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage (.572) and blocks (37). 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 in rebounding by 3.6 rebounds per game. Bacot is averaging 12.59, while NC State's Dereon Seabron is second with 8.96. Louisville's Malik Williams is third at 8.65.
• Bacot has double-digit rebounds in 13 consecutive games, the third-longest streak 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's 12.6 rebounds per game are currently the fifth-highest average by a Tar Heel and the highest since 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
12.6 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

• Bacot has 20 or more rebounds three times in the last eight games – 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's 13-game run of rebounds includes 12-10-10-11-17-22-12-12-12-20-18-13-22.
• He has 53 rebounds in the last three games. Only Cunningham (multiple times with a high of 71), Lennie Rosenbluth (59) and Rusty Clark (57 and 54) ever had more.
• He has 73 over the last four games, which is surpassed by only Cunningham (had eight streaks with more with a high of 87).
• He has 85 in the last five games with only Cunningham grabbing more with 11 five-game stretches with more with a high of 100.
• 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
3.17 Armando Bacot (263 in 83 games)
3.06 George Lynch, 1989-93

BACOT DOUBLING DOWN
• Armando Bacot is one off the lead in the nation in double-doubles with 17 behind Fardaws Aimaq of Utah Valley, who has 18.
• Bacot is one of four players in the ACC, Big East Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 and SEC with 10 or more double-doubles this season.
• 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 Billy Cunningham in 1964-65. Bacot's 10-game streak equaled the fourth-longest by a Tar Heel.
• Bacot has double-doubles in 77.3% of Carolina's games this season, currently the fourth highest percentage in UNC history.

Career Double-Doubles 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 17 22 .773
Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 18 24 .750

• Bacot's 35 career double-doubles place him 11th in UNC history.
• Bacot has 35 double-doubles in 83 games over three seasons as a Tar Heel. His double-double rate (41.5%) is the 10th highest by a Tar Heel and the fourth highest in the last 50 years.

Career 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 35 83 .422

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC in shooting 76.0% from the free throw line for the season, their best percentage since 1984-85, when they converted 76.1%. 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 10 times this season, including three of the last four games. UNC hit a season-best 90.5% on 19 of 21 shooting at home vs. Georgia Tech.
• Carolina is on pace to shoot the third-highest percentage in school history from the free throw line (.783 in 1983-84 and .761 in 1984-85).
• Senior forward Leaky Black (.864) and sophomore guards Caleb Love (.841) and RJ Davis (.824) lead UNC at the stripe this season.
• Love and Dave have moved into the top 20 in UNC career free throw leaders. Love is 12th (.825) and Davis is tied for 15th (.823).
• Love made 9 of 10 in the overtime win at Louisville, including 5 of 6 in the extra period. It was the third time this season Love made nine or more free throws in a game (also 10 for 12 at Charleston, 9 for 11 vs. Virginia Tech).

SCORING
• Five Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Armando Bacot and Caleb Love each have scored 20 or more seven times, Brady Manek has four and RJ Davis and Dawson Garcia each have three 20-point games.
• Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points 24 times in 22 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.
• Bacot has scored 20 or more points seven times this season. He did that five times in his first two seasons combined.
• Carolina is 9-0 over two seasons when Love scores 20 or more (7-0 this season) and 9-1 when he makes 50% of his field goal attempts (4-0 last season and 5-1 in 2021-22).
• Manek has scored 20 or more twice in the last five games, 22 at Wake Forest and 24 at Louisville.

FROM THREE
• Carolina is third in the ACC and 16th in the country in three-point percentage (.385). The Tar Heels have made 27 of 53 (.509) in the last two games. They were 12 of 26 at Louisville and 15 for 27 (.556) against NC State.
• Carolina made a season-high 15 three-pointers against NC State and is averaging 8.41 per game, on pace for the second highest average in UNC history.
• The Tar Heels have made 42.4% of their threes in their 16 wins compared to 29.7% in the six losses. The opponents have connected on 44.1% in their six wins over Carolina and just 30.0% in the Tar Heels' 15 wins.

UNC Three-Pointers Per Game, Last 10 Years
2021-22 8.41
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
2021-22 8.24
2002-03 8.29
1982-83 (experimental distance) 8.25
2017-18 8.24

STILL EMPHASIZING THE BOARDS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC and are seventh in the country in rebound margin at plus 8.7 per game. UNC also leads the league and is 11th nationally in rebounds per game (41.0).
• The Tar Heels are on pace to average 40 or more rebounds for the eighth consecutive season and 15th time in 17 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 20 times in 22 games this season. The Tar Heels are 16-4 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.

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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Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

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Dawson Garcia

Anthony Harris

Caleb Love

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Sterling Manley

Day'Ron Sharpe

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