Tar Heels Will Meet Defending NCAA Champ Baylor For Sweet 16 Bid Saturday

GAME 35: NCAA SECOND ROUND
• Eighth-seeded Carolina plays No. 1 seed and fourth-ranked Baylor in the second round of the NCAA East Region on Saturday, March 19 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. on CBS.
• Should Carolina beat Baylor, the Tar Heels would advance to Philadelphia next week to play the winner of No. 4 UCLA and No. 5 St. Mary's in the Sweet 16.
• The Tar Heels defeated No. 9 Marquette, 95-63, on Thursday, while the defending NCAA champion Bears eliminated Norfolk State, 85-49.
• This is the first time UNC is playing the defending national champion in the NCAA Tournament since losing to Arkansas in the national semifinals in Seattle in 1995.
• Carolina has never previously played Baylor.

2021-22
• Carolina is 25-9 overall. This is Carolina's 62nd season with 20 or more wins and its NCAA-record 39th with at least 25.
• The Tar Heels tied Notre Dame for second in the ACC at 15-5, one game behind Duke.
• UNC was the No. 3 seed in Brooklyn in the ACC Tournament, defeated Virginia in the quarterfinal and lost to eventual ACC champion Virginia Tech in the semifinal.
• Carolina went 15-2 at home and 8-3 in road games this season and is 2-4 in neutral-site games.
• Carolina's neutral-site losses were to the ACC champion (Virginia Tech), a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament (Kentucky) and two No. 3 seeds (Purdue and Tennessee).
• The Tar Heels have won 13 of their last 16 games. The 72-59 loss to Virginia Tech in the ACC semifinals ended UNC's season-long six-game win streak. One of those six wins was at Virginia Tech on February 19, when UNC held the Hokies to 57 points, Tech's low point total at home this season.
• The 15 regular-season ACC wins were Carolina's second most all-time. The Tar Heels went 16-2 in 2018-19.
• With the 94-81 win at Duke on March 5 the Tar Heels won their last five road games and went 7-3 (.700) on the road in ACC play this season and 8-3 (.727) in all road games. The national average road winning percentage this college basketball season through the regular season was 42.5%.
• This was Carolina's 43rd winning record on the road in 69 seasons of ACC basketball.

CAROLINA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• This is Carolina's 52nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament, which is the second most all-time (Kentucky 59).
• The Tar Heels are 127-48 in the NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina's six NCAA Tournament championships are the third most all-time.
• The Tar Heels won NCAA titles in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017.
• Carolina's 20 Final Fours are the most in NCAA Tournament history.
• The Tar Heels are the only team to play in the Final Four in each of the last eight decades: 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017.
• Carolina has played in the second-most NCAA Tournament games (175) and has the second-most wins (127) and second-highest winning percentage (.726).
• Roy Williams won three NCAA titles and 79 NCAA Tournament games, second most all-time.
• Dean Smith won two NCAA titles and 65 NCAA Tournament games, third most all-time.
• Hubert Davis is 1-0 as head coach in NCAA Tournament games.

CAROLINA AS AN 8 SEED
• Carolina is a No. 8 seed for the second year in a row and the fifth time overall (1990, 2000, 2013, 2021, 2022).
• The Tar Heels are 8-4 as an eight seed, including 4-1 in the first round and 2-1 in the second round.
• In 1990, Carolina beat No. 9 SW Missouri State and No. 1 Oklahoma in Austin before losing to No. 4 Arkansas in Dallas.
• In 2000, Carolina advanced to the Final Four, the lowest seed in its NCAA-record 20 trips to the Final Four (seeding began in 1979; UNC has reached the Final Four 13 times since the field was seeded). The Tar Heels beat Missouri, top-seed and third-ranked Stanford, Tennessee and Tulsa to advance to the Final Four, where they lost to Florida.

HUBERT DAVIS IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• Hubert Davis is the fourth UNC head coach to lead his team to an NCAA Tournament berth in his first season at the helm, joining Bill Guthridge in 1998, Matt Doherty in 2001 and Roy Williams in 2004.
• Davis was an assistant coach at his alma mater from 2012-21. He was on the bench for two national championship games, the 2017 NCAA title and an 18-7 record in NCAA Tournament games.
• As a player at UNC from 1988-92, Davis played in 12 NCAA Tournament games, including the 1991 Final Four. The Tar Heels were 10-4 in the Tournament in his four seasons, including 9-3 in the dozen games in which he played.
• Davis scored in double figures in each of his last nine NCAA Tournament games, averaging 17.7 points in those games. In 1991, he helped lead the Tar Heels to the Final Four, scoring 16 vs. Northeastern, 18 vs. Villanova and Eastern Michigan, 19 vs. Temple in the East Region final in the Meadowlands and 25 vs. Roy Williams and Kansas in the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis in the national semifinal.

TAR HEELS IN TEXAS
• This is the 10th NCAA Tournament in which Carolina is playing in the state of Texas.
• Fort Worth is the seventh city in Texas in which the Tar Heels have played in the NCAA
Tournament.
• The Tar Heels are 1-0 in Fort Worth and 8-7 in Texas in the NCAA Tournament.
• The two games this week are the first two for the Tar Heels in Fort Worth (UNC has never played TCU).

FIRST-ROUND WIN OVER MARQUETTE
• Brady Manek (28/11) and Armando Bacot (17/10) had double-doubles, Caleb Love hit six threes and scored 21 of his 23 points in the first half, RJ Davis had a career-high 12 assists and Leaky Black held Marquette's leading scorer Justin Lewis to six points in Carolina's 95-63 win.
• It was Carolina's first NCAA Tournament win since beating Washington in the second round in Columbus, Ohio, on 3/24/2019.
• It was Hubert Davis's first NCAA Tournament game as head coach.
• Carolina's 32-point win was the largest in an 8-9 game in NCAA Tournament history (previous was a 75-45 win by No. 8 Michigan over No. 9 Tennessee in 2011). It was UNC's largest win in an NCAA game since a 103-64 win over Texas Southern in 2017.
• The 32-point win was UNC's largest margin of the season.
• It was Carolina's 25th win of the season.
• The 95 points were the most by UNC in an NCAA game since scoring 103 in 2017 first round vs. Texas Southern.
• Carolina made 13 threes, most ever by UNC in an NCAA game (previous 12 vs. Oakland in 2005 first round).
• Carolina attempted 35 threes, most ever by UNC in an NCAA game (previous 31 vs. Texas A&M in 2018 2nd round).
• Carolina had 29 assists on 34 field goals. The 29 assists were the fourth most by UNC in an NCAA game and the most since the Tar Heels had a school-record 36 vs. Loyola Marymount in 1988 (assistant coach Jeff Lebo had seven in that game).
• UNC had assists on 85.3% of its field goals, highest in any NCAA Tournament game in school history. The previous high was 84.4% (27 assists on 32 field goals vs. Villanova in 1991. Hubert Davis had six field goals and four assists in that game).
• The 29 assists were a season-high (previous 22 vs. Florida State).
• Carolina had a season-high 52 rebounds.
• Carolina led by 28 at the half, its second-largest halftime lead in an NCAA game. The largest was 29 vs. Rhode Island in 1993 second round.
• Love tied UNC's single-game NCAA Tournament record with six three-pointers (all in the first half) and Manek made five. It was the first time UNC ever had two players make five or a more 3FGs in an NCAA game.
• Love's six threes tied UNC's NCAA Tournament record previously accomplished by Shammond Williams in 1998 second round vs. Charlotte and Marcus Paige in 2016 regional semifinal vs. Indiana.
• Love was the first Tar Heel to make six threes in a half since Coby White in Chapel Hill against Miami in 2019.
• Manek's five threes tied the fourth most in an NCAA game by a Tar Heel.
• Love scored 21 of his 23 points in the first half. It was the first time a Tar Heel scored 20 points in a half in an NCAA game since Paige scored 20 in the second half against Arkansas in the 2015 2nd round.
• Manek scored a season-high 28 points (previous was 24 against Tennessee and at Louisville). It was his ninth 20-point game of the season and fourth in the last five games.
• Manek was 10 for 15 from the floor; he tied his season-high with 10 field goals (one off his career best). He made 10 at Louisville.
• Manek also led UNC with 11 boards (tied season high) for his fourth double-double as a Tar Heel (12th career). It was the first NCAA Tournament game two Tar Heels had double-doubles since Tyler Zeller, Reggie Bullock and John Henson all had double-doubles against Ohio in 2012.
• Manek was a season-high plus 31 (previous highs were plus 29 at Boston College and home vs. NC State).
• RJ Davis had a career-high 12 assists and only one turnover. The 12 assists were the most by a Tar Heel this season, most by a Tar Heel since Kendall Marshall had 12 vs. Maryland in the 2012 ACC Tournament and equaled the second-most by a Tar Heel in an NCAA game. Marshall had 14 against Washington in 2011 2nd round; Kenny Smith also had 12 vs. Notre Dame in the 1987 regional semifinal.
• Bacot had his 26th double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 rebounds. That equaled the second-most doubles in ACC single-season history. Tim Duncan (Wake Forest) had 29 in 1996-97, Tom Burleson (NC State) had 26 in 1973-74 and Len Chappell (Wake Forest) had 26 in 1961-62.
• Bacot set the single-season UNC rebound record. He had 10 vs. Marquette and has 422 this season. The previous record was 416 by Brice Johnson in 2015-16. Bacot broke the record in his 34th game; Johnson played 40 games in 2015-16.
• Black had a season-high eight assists, seven rebounds and held Lewis 2 of 15 field goals and six points, 11.1 below his average.
• Puff Johnson scored 11 points, his second career game in double figures. He was 5 for 7 from the floor. The five field goals were a career high.
• Dontrez Styles had six points and a season-best six rebounds.
• UNC improved to 32-2 in the round of 64.
• The Tar Heels are 14-1 on St. Patrick's Day in the NCAA Tournament.

MANEK VS. BAYLOR
• Brady Manek played seven games against Baylor while playing for Oklahoma.
• He scored in double figures five times with a high of 21 in Waco as a junior on 1/20/20. He was 4 for 8 from three and had 10 rebounds and four steals in that game.
• As a freshman he made 4 of 5 from three and had 16 points and eight rebounds in Norman.
• He averaged 10.7 points and 5.0 rebounds in the seven games.

ACC AWARDS FOR BACOT, BLACK
• Junior forward/center Armando Bacot was the leading vote-getter on the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team and senior forward Leaky Black was selected to the league's All-Defensive team.
• Bacot is the 52nd Tar Heel to win first-team All-ACC honors a total of 79 times, both of which are the most in ACC history.
• Black is the eighth Tar Heel to make the ACC's All-Defensive team and the first since Brice Johnson in 2016.
• Bacot was second in the voting for ACC Player of the Year. Black received the third-highest vote total for the All-Defensive team and third-most votes for Defensive Player of the Year.
• Caleb Love and Brady Manek were honorable mention All-ACC.
• Bacot was named to the All-ACC Tournament second team for his play against Virginia and Virginia Tech. He had 10 points, 11 rebounds, two blocks and three steals against the Cavaliers in the quarterfinal and 19 points and 14 rebounds vs. the Hokies in the semifinal.

BACOT'S SEASON RANKS AMONG UNC, ACC BEST
• Armando Bacot leads Carolina in scoring (16.5), rebounding (12.4), field goal percentage (.593) and blocks (57). He also led UNC in those categories last season. No Tar Heel has ever led in those four categories in consecutive seasons and no other Tar Heel has ever reached all four of those numbers in one season.
• He has set UNC single-season records for double-doubles (26) and games with 10 or more rebounds (27).
• Bacot has scored 20 or more points 10 times this season. He has also blocked five or more shots four times and shot 60 percent or better from the floor 19 times.
• No Tar Heel has ever led the ACC in rebounding and field goal percentage in the same season.
• Duncan is the only ACC player ever to have higher scoring and rebound averages and a higher field goal percentage in the same season (1996-97) than Bacot's current numbers.
• Bacot leads the ACC in field goal percentage and rebounding, just the ninth time in 69 seasons one player has led in both categories.
• He leads the ACC with 26 double-doubles. It's only the sixth time ever a player has led the ACC in field goal percentage, rebounding and double-doubles (with Duke's Marvin Bagley in 2018, Duncan in 1997, Clemson's Dale Davis in 1990, Clemson's Horace Grant in 1987 and Virginia's Ralph Sampson in 1983).

LED ACC IN FG PCT AND REBOUNDING, SAME SEASON
2021-22 Armando Bacot ##
2017-18 Marvin Bagley III, Duke ##
2008-09 Trevor Booker, Clemson
1996-97 Tim Duncan, Wake Forest ##
1989-90 Dale Davis, Clemson ##
1988-89 Dale Davis, Clemson
1986-87 Horace Grant, Clemson ##
1982-83 Ralph Sampson, Virginia ##
1980-81 Buck Williams, Maryland
## also led the ACC in double-doubles

• Nationally, Bacot is third in rebounding and double-doubles, fifth in offensive boards (3.8) and 17th in field goal percentage.
• Bacot is the only player in the top five in the country in double-doubles, offensive rebounds and rebounding remaining in the NCAA Tournament field.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES
28 Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
27 Fardaws Aimaq, Utah State
26 Armando Bacot
23 Johni Broome, Morehead State
21 Chuba Ohams, Fordham

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING 5.3 Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
4.0 Chuba Ohams, Fordham
3.9 Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton
3.82 Sukhmail Mathon, Boston University
3.79 Armando Bacot

REBOUNDING
15.1 Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
13.6 Fardaws Aimaq, Utah State
12.4 Armando Bacot
12.2 Norcahd Omier, Arkansas State
11.6 Chuba Ohams, Fordham

BACOT SETS UNC REBOUNDING RECORD
• Armando Bacot had 10 rebounds against Marquette to set the single-season school record for most rebounds with 422. He broke the mark set by Brice Johnson with 416 in 2015-16.
• Bacot is just the eighth player in ACC history with 400 rebounds in a season.

MOST REBOUNDS – UNC season
422 Armando Bacot, 2021-22
416 Brice Johnson, 2015-16 (1st-team All-America)
399 Tyler Hansbrough, 2007-08 (NPOY)
397 Sean May, 2004-05 (NPOY)
389 Antawn Jamison, 1997-98 (NPOY)

• Bacot has 10 or more rebounds 27 times this season, a UNC single-season record. Johnson set the previous record with 23 double-figure games in 2015-16, a season in which he earned first-team All-America honors and led UNC to the national championship game.
• Bacot's 12.4 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.

Highest rebounding average – UNC 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
12.4 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

• Only one player in the ACC has averaged as many rebounds in the last 24 seasons. Notre Dame's John Mooney led the league with 12.7 per game in 2019-20.
• Bacot averaged 14.1 rebounds in the 20 regular-season ACC games. That was the highest average in league play since Duncan averaged 14.9 in 16 games in 1996-97.
• Bacot's 14.1 rebounds in ACC games were the fourth highest average ever by a Tar Heel. Billy Cunningham averaged 16.6 in 1962-63, 16.0 in 1963-64 and 14.4 in 1964-65.

Most games double-figure REBOUNDS — UNC season
27 Armando Bacot, 2021-22 (in 34 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 has 912 career rebounds, 13th most in UNC history. Rusty Clark, who led UNC to three straight Final Fours in 1967-69, is 12th with 933.

REBOUNDS – UNC CAREER
11. 941 Eric Montross, 1990-94
12. 933 Rusty Clark, 1966-69
13. 912 Armando Bacot, 2019-
14. 890 Ademola Okulaja, 1995-99
15. 885 John Henson, 2009-12

• Bacot has the ninth-highest career rebounding average by a Tar Heel at 9.6 per game. He has the highest career average since Sean May, who averaged 10.0 from 2002-05.

Highest rebounding average — UNC 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
9.6 Armando Bacot, 2019-
9.2 Larry Miller, 1965-68

• Bacot leads the ACC by 4.3 rebounds per game in all games and by 6.1 per game in ACC play.
• 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.
• 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 – UNC 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
3.24 Armando Bacot (308 in 95 games)
3.06 George Lynch, 1989-93

BACOT SETS UNC DOUBLE-DOUBLE MARK
• Bacot's 26 double-doubles are the UNC single-season record, breaking Brice Johnson's mark of 23 set in 2015-16, and equal the second most in ACC single-season history.
• Bacot is the seventh player in ACC history with at least 25 double-doubles in a season (the third in the last 25 seasons).

DOUBLE-DOUBLES – ACC SEASON
29 Tim Duncan, Wake Forest, 1996-97
26 Armando Bacot
26 Tom Burleson, NC State, 1973-74
26 Len Chappell, Wake Forest, 1961-62
25 John Mooney, Notre Dame, 2019-20
25 Jordan Williams, Maryland, 2010-11
25 Ronnie Shavlik, NC State, 1955-56

DOUBLE-DOUBLES – UNC SEASON
26 Armando Bacot, 2021-22 (in 34 games)
23 Brice Johnson, 2015-16 (in 40 games)
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 eight more double-doubles this season than he had combined in his first two seasons (18).
• Bacot had 10-straight double-doubles from Furman 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 76.5% of Carolina's games this season, the fourth-highest percentage in UNC history and highest since 1964.

PCT. OF DOUBLE-DOUBLE GAMES – UNC 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 26 34 .765
Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 18 24 .750

• Bacot has 44 career double-doubles, which ties Mitch Kupchak for the fifth most by a Tar Heel.

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

• Bacot has 44 career double-doubles in 95 games. His double-double rate (45.7%) is the sixth highest by a Tar Heel and is the third highest since 1965.

PCT. OF DOUBLE-DOUBLE GAMES – UNC 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
Armando Bacot, 2019-active 44 95 .463
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

• 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 1,225 points. He is 59th all-time at Carolina. Bacot passed Sean May and James Worthy in the Marquette game. Harrison Barnes is 58th with 1,228.

Scoring – UNC CAREER
56. 1,232 James Michael McAdoo, 2011-14
57. 1,231 Joe Wolf, 1983-87
58. 1,228 Harrison Barnes, 2010-12
59. 1,225 Armando Bacot
60. 1,219 James Worthy, 1979-82
61. 1,213 Sean May, 2002-05

300-PLUS FOR BRADY
• Brady Manek, a 6-9 power forward, made 235 three-pointers in four seasons at Oklahoma, becoming the tallest player in Big 12 history to make 200 threes.
• Manek leads UNC with 81 threes and in three-point percentage at a career-best 39.1% (previous was 38.3% as a freshman at OU).
• He's hit 316 three-pointers in his college career.
• The Harrah, Okla., native made five 3FGs against Marquette, his 15th career game with five or more.
• He knocked home three 3FGs in the first half against Virginia in the ACC Tournament when he out-scored the Cavaliers, 19-13, in the half.
• Manek has made at least one three-pointer in 127 of 156 games and multiple threes 83 times (at least one in 31 of 34 games as a Tar Heel with two or more 20 times).
• Manek is averaging 2.38 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 (2.67 per game) is the only Tar Heel to play significant minutes at power forward (the 4) and average more threes per game than Manek, who plays almost exclusively at the 4. Johnson 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. Johnson made 96 in 36 games in 2018-19, Ademola Okulaja made 59 in 34 games in 1998-99 and Manek has made 81 in 34 games.

MANEK ADDS TO 10-REBOUND, 5-THREES LIST
• Brady Manek made five threes, scored a season-high 28 points and had 11 rebounds vs. Marquette. It was the second time Manek had double-figure rebounds and five threes in a game this season (also at Duke). He is one of four Tar Heels ever to accomplish that with Cole Anthony, Reggie Bullock (twice) and Joseph Forte.
• The Marquette game was the sixth time this season Manek made at least five threes in a game. Coby White (2018-19), Justin Jackson (2016-17) and Donald Williams (1992-93) also made five or more six times. No Tar Heel has made five or more in seven games in a season.

THREE WITH 50 THREES
• Carolina has three players with 50 or more threes this season for the just the fourth time in history.
• Brady Manek leads with 81, Caleb Love has 80 and RJ Davis 58.
• Carolina also had three players make 50 or more threes in 2017-18 (Joel Berry II, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye), 2008-09 (Wayne Ellington, Danny Green and Ty Lawson) and 2002-03 (Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton and Melvin Scott).
• This is also the fourth time two Tar Heels made 80 or more threes in a season (89 by P.J. Hairston and 88 by Reggie Bullock in 2012-13, 105 by Justin Jackson and 88 by Joel Berry II in 2016-17 and 96 by Cameron Johnson and 82 by Coby White in 2018-19).

DAVIS AND LOVE BACKCOURT ACES
• Sophomores RJ Davis and Caleb Love have started every game together in the backcourt this season except Senior Night, and are both averaging more than 33 minutes per game.
• Davis and Love have combined for 28.6 points and 7.4 assists per game. A year ago as freshmen, they combined for 18.9 points and 5.5 assists.
• They have 138 three-pointers and 250 assists.
• Davis is second on the team in three-point percentage (.379) and free throw shooting (.794); Love leads the team at the FT line (.866) and is third from three (.376).
• Love made a career-high six three-pointers against Florida State and Marquette.
• Davis hit a career-high six three-pointers in November in a 26-point outing against Brown and hit five on February 28 vs. Syracuse.

BLACK'S PLAY A KEY TO SECOND-HALF SURGE
• Leaky Black is 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.
• Black was third in voting for ACC Defensive Player of the Year and earned his first award for the league's All-Defensive team.
• Black was the primary defender in three games vs. ACC Tournament MVP Hunter Cattoor of Virginia Tech (who scored 31 against Duke in the ACC final) and held Cattoor to an average of 7.0 points on 5 of 15 threes; vs. Duke's Paolo Banchero, whose shot he blocked three times and scored 13 points; vs. Duke's AJ Griffin, who scored five points in Cameron after scoring 27 in the first game vs. Carolina; vs. Georgia Tech's Michael Devoe, who came in as one of the nation's leading scorers and scored two points; vs. NC State's Dereon Seabron, who scored two points on 1 of 6 shooting; Syracuse's Buddy Boeheim, who scored 14, five below his ACC-leading average; and vs. Marquette leading scorer Justin Lewis, whom he held to 2 of 15 FG and six points, 11 below his average.
• The Concord, N.C., native is shooting career-best percentages from the floor (.480) and the free throw line (.882).
• Black had a season-high eight assists against Marquette. Carolina is 15-1 this season when the senior has three or more assists and 13-2 in his career when he has five or more.
• Black has 25 assists and seven turnovers in the last five games.

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC in free throw shooting at 77.4%, their second-best percentage ever (78.3% in 1983-84).
• Last season, UNC shot 66.8%.
• Carolina is 16th in the country at the line.
• 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 17 times this season, including seven of the last eight games. UNC shot 80% or better in the final five regular-season ACC games, the first time in UNC history the Tar Heels shot 80.% in five consecutive games.
• Carolina has made 26 more free throws than the opponents have attempted.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE — UNC SEASON
.783 in 1983-84 (551 of 704)
.774 in 2021-22 (475 of 614)
.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 (.882) and sophomore guards Caleb Love (.866) and RJ Davis (.794) lead UNC at the stripe this season.
• Love went 12 for 12 from the free throw line at Duke (which tied the third-best performance at the line by a Duke opponent in Cameron Indoor Stadium history).
• Love is tied for third all-time at UNC in free throw percentage at .845. Shammond Williams (1994-98) is the leader at .848.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE – UNC CAREER
.848 Shammond Williams, 1994-98
.847 Marvin Williams, 2004-05
.845 Caleb Love, 2020-
.845 Danny Green, 2005-09
.844 Marcus Paige, 2012-16

• Love is shooting 86.6% from the line this season, the ninth-best percentage in a season by a Tar Heel.

Highest FT percentage — UNC SEASON (min. 75 made)
.911 Shammond Williams, 1997-98 (133 of 146)
.893 Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (108 of 121)
.878 Jeff Lebo, 1987-88 (86 of 98)
.877 Marcus Paige, 2013-14 (128 of 146)
.876 Steve Hale, 1984-85 (85 of 97)
.871 Darrell Elston, 1973-74 (81 of 93)
.868 York Larese, 1959-60 (131 of 151)
.867 Joel Berry II, 2015-16 (91 of 105)
.866 Caleb Love, 2021-22 (123 of 142)
.865 Marcus Paige, 2014-15 (96 of 111)

LOVE STREAK ONE SHY OF UNC RECORD
• Caleb Love made 40 consecutive free throws, the second-longest streak in UNC history, until missing his fifth and final attempt of the game vs. Virginia in the ACC quarterfinal.
• His streak ended one shy of tying Jeff Lebo's record, which Lebo set as a senior in 1989.
• Love's streak began against Pitt on February 16, when he made his final three of that game.
• Love made his first four against UVA to pass Bobby Lewis (39 in a row in 1966) for the second-longest streak in UNC history.
• Marcus Paige had made 31 straight in 2013-14, the most recent instance when a Tar Heel made at least 30 in a row.

CONSECUTIVE FREE THROWS — ACC HISTORY
66 Scott Wood, NC State 2011-12
54 J.J. Redick, Duke 2003-04
48 John Gillon, Syracuse 2016-17
48 Jeff Lamp, Virginia 1979-80
45 Roger Mason, Virginia 2000-01
43 J.J. Redick, Duke 2002-03
43 Skip Brown, Wake Forest 1976-77
41 Jeff Lebo, North Carolina 1998-89
41 Jim Brennan, Clemson 1963-64
40 Caleb Love
40 Jon Scheyer, Duke 2006-07
40 Juan Dixon, Maryland 2000-01
SCORING ODDS AND ENDS
• Five Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Caleb Love leads with 11 20-point games, Armando Bacot has 10, Brady Manek nine, RJ Davis four and Dawson Garcia three.
• Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points 37 times in 34 games, including eight games in which two players scored 20 or more (Loyola, Brown, Charleston, Elon, home vs. Georgia Tech, Syracuse and Marquette) and the March 5 win at Duke, when the Tar Heels set a school recored when four players scored 20 or more.
• 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 13-0 over two seasons when Love scores 20 or more (11-0 this season).
• Carolina is 19-0 when leading at the half.
• Carolina is 13-1 when scoring 80 or more points.
• Carolina's 55 second-half points and 94 total points at Duke on March 5 were the most scored against the Blue Devils this season.

THREE-POINTERS
• Carolina made a season-high 15 three-pointers at home against NC State and is averaging 8.4 per game, on pace for the second-highest average in UNC history.
• The Tar Heel made 13 against Marquette, most by Carolina in an NCAA Tournament game.
• Carolina is making 0.4 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 – UNC SEASON
2018-19 8.67
2021-22 8.41
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 seventh in the country in rebound margin at plus 7.9 per game. UNC also leads the league and is 13th nationally in rebounds per game (40.1).
• Carolina had a season-high 52 rebounds vs. Marquette and out-rebounded the Golden Eagles by 15.
• 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 31 times in 34 games this season. The Tar Heels are 25-6 when out-rebounding their opponents and 0-3 when getting out-rebounded (Tennessee, Kentucky and Duke in Chapel Hill).

MISCELLANEOUS
• The Tar Heels are 16-1 this season when scoring more points off turnovers and 8-8 when the opponents score more points off turnovers.
• Turnovers and the opponents cashing in on those errors have been a key factor this season. Carolina has turned the ball over 12.2 times per game in its nine losses, which led to 178 points, an average of 19.8 points per game.
• Carolina is 20-0 this season when the opponents shoot at or under 45% from the floor.
• Carolina has won seven 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, 57 by Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and 43 by Virginia in Brooklyn).
• The Tar Heels have held the opponents to 65 or fewer points in 13 of their 25 wins.
• Carolina is 10-0 this season when shooting at least 50% (under Roy Williams UNC was 220-9 when shooting 50% from the floor).
• Carolina is holding its opponents to 66.2 points in its 25 victories. The opponents are averaging 86.2 points in UNC's eight losses.
• The Tar Heels are minus 7 in assist-turnovers (103 assists/110 turnovers) in the nine losses, while the opponents are plus 73 (157 assists/84 turnovers).

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