Tar Heels Close Regular Season At Duke Saturday Night

Saturday, March 5

Durham, N.C.

6 PM

North Carolina

Duke

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

March 4, 2022 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 31
• Carolina concludes regular-season play on Saturday, March 5, when the Tar Heels travel to Duke to face the fourth-ranked Blue Devils at 6:20 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium (ESPN, ACC Network).
• The Tar Heels have won 10 of their last 12 games and are 22-8 overall, 14-5 in the ACC. UNC has won four straight, which matches its longest conference win streak of the season. The Tar Heels won four in a row from January 24-February 1 and five straight, including four non-conference games and at Georgia Tech, from November 23-December 14.
• Carolina is tied with Notre Dame for second place in the ACC at 14-5, two games behind Duke. The Tar Heels have clinched a top four seed and a double bye in next week's ACC Tournament in Brooklyn.
• Carolina has won 20 or more games for the 62nd time (first time since going 29-7 in 2018-19) and 14 or more regular-season ACC games for the 12th time (first time since going 16-2 in 2018-19).
• The Tar Heels are 6-3 and have already clinched a winning record on the road in the ACC for the 43rd time in 69 seasons.
• Carolina secured the ACC Tournament double bye with an 88-79 overtime win over Syracuse on Monday. Brady Manek led UNC with 22 points, Caleb Love hit three three-pointers over the final seven minutes and Armando Bacot tied the UNC record with his 23rd double-double this season in the win.
• The Tar Heels made 14 of 36 three-pointers. It was the first time since the Purdue game (11/20) four Tar Heels made multiple threes in a game, and the 36 three-point attempts were the most in UNC history.
• RJ Davis made five threes, Love hit four, Manek and Leaky Black hit a pair. UNC is 6-1 this season when Davis, Love and Manek connect on multiple threes in the same game.

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. It would also be just the sixth time a player has led the ACC in field goal percentage, rebounding and double-doubles (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).

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

• Duncan is the only ACC player to have higher scoring and rebound averages and a higher field goal percentage in the same season (1996-97) than Bacot.
• Bacot is averaging 16.4 points and 12.7 rebounds, shooting 58.5% 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 14.5 rebounds over the first 19 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 14.5 rebounds in ACC games are the third highest average ever by a Tar Heel. Billy Cunningham averaged 16.6 in 1962-63 and 16.0 in 1963-64.
• Bacot's 17-point/18-rebound effort vs. Syracuse was his 23rd double-double this season, which tied Brice Johnson's single-season UNC record, which he set over 40 games in 2015-16.
• Bacot has 15 (at Virginia Tech), 15 (Louisville), 18 (at NC State) and 18 (Syracuse) rebounds in the last four games. That's not even his highest four-game total this season – he grabbed 73 earlier against the Hokies (20), Boston College (18), NC State (13) and Louisville (22).
• He's not just putting up big rebound totals. Bacot scored 28 points last Saturday at NC State, his ninth 20-point game this season. He has also blocked five or more shots four times and made 60 percent or better from the floor 17 times. He's also 11th in the ACC in conference play in free throw shooting.

UNC-DUKE ALL-TIME
• Carolina is 141-115 against the Blue Devils.
• Carolina is 49-55 against Duke in Durham, including 38-46 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• UNC beat the Blue Devils, 91-87, in Durham a year ago behind 25 points and seven assists by Caleb Love, 16 points from Armando Bacot and 12 apiece from Leaky Black and Kerwin Walton. The Tar Heels shot 53.1% from the floor and made 10 of 15 (.667) three-pointers.
• The Tar Heels are 48-50 against Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams, including 19-22 at Cameron.
• Carolina and Duke have won 39 of the ACC's 67 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 20.
• 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 Cameron.
• The teams have three sets of high school teammates. UNC's Leaky Black played as a senior at Cox Mill High School in Concord, N.C., with Duke's Wendell Moore; UNC's RJ Davis and Duke's AJ Griffin played at Archbishop Stepanic in White Plains, N.Y.; and Anthony Harris (UNC), Trevor Keels and Jeremy Roach (Duke) were teammates at St. Paul VI in Fairfax, Va.

EARLIER THIS SEASON IN CHAPEL HILL
DUKE 87, UNC 67 (FEB. 5)
• It was Carolina's first home loss in 13 games this season and ended a 14-game win streak at the Smith Center.
• Brady Manek made 6 of 10 three-pointers and led UNC with 21 points.
• Manek scored 15 of Carolina's 28 points in the first half.
• Duke shot 57.6% from the floor, the highest percentage by an opponent this season.
• Carolina had a season-low two second-chance points (previous low was five against Tennessee).
• RJ Davis scored in double figures (11) for the sixth straight game.
• Carolina shot 31.3% from the floor in the first half and 51.9% in the second.
• Duke out-rebounded Carolina, 40-24. The 24 rebounds were a season low for the Tar Heels.
• Duke freshman AJ Griffin scored a game-high 27 points.

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 is tied with Caleb Love for the team lead with 68 threes. Manek is shooting .389, which is .006 ahead of his previous career-best .383 as a freshman at Oklahoma.
• He made three 3FGs against Syracuse and has made 303 in his college career.
• Manek has made at least one three-pointer in 124 of 152 games and multiple threes 80 times (at least one in 28 of 30 games as a Tar Heel with two or more 17 times).
• Manek is averaging 2.27 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 68 in 30 games.

THREE WITH 50 THREES
• RJ Davis made five three-pointers in Carolina's overtime win over Syracuse, giving the Tar Heels three players with 50 or more threes this season for the just the fourth time in history.
• Caleb Love and Brady Manek both have made 68, and Davis has connected 54 times from three-point range.
• 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).

DAVIS'S AND LOVE'S IMPROVEMENT
• Sophomores RJ Davis and Caleb Love have started every game together but Senior Night this season and are both averaging more than 32 minutes per game.
• Davis and Love have combined for 28.8 points and 7.1 assists per game. A year ago as freshmen, they combined for 18.9 points and 5.5 assists.
• They have a combined 122 three-pointers and 212 assists.
• Davis leads the team in three-point percentage (.403) and is second in free throw shooting (.805); Love leads the team at the FT line (.862) and is third from three (.384).
• 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. He made three 3FGs in the final 2:23 of regulation and overtime against Syracuse.
• Davis hit a career-high six three-pointers in November in a 26-point outing against Brown and hit five on Monday vs. the Orange.
• Love is making 38.4% of his three-point attempts, up from 26.6% a year ago. Davis has improved from 32.3 to 40.3%.
• In Carolina's 22 wins, Davis and Love are shooting 43.3% and 42.2%, 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 (.490), from three (.417) and the free throw line (.875).
• Black is 30 of 51 (.588) from the floor, 13 for 26 from three and made 16 of 18 free throws in the last 12 games.
• Black had a season-high seven assists against Syracuse. Carolina is 12-0 this season when the senior has three or more assists and 12-2 in his career when he has five or more.
• Black continued to play exceptional perimeter defense and make a case for ACC Defensive Player-of-the-Year honors, helping to limit Buddy Boeheim to five points below his season average. Cole Swider scored 36 points Monday against UNC, but did not score at the end of the game once Black was switched to defend him.

BACOT'S BIG YEAR
• Nationally, Bacot is third in rebounding (12.7)and double-doubles (23), fourth in offensive boards (3.9) and 13th 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 380 rebounds this season, which is already the fifth-most in a season by a Tar Heel.

MOST REBOUNDS – season
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)
380 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

• Bacot has 10 or more rebounds 24 times this season, a UNC single-season record. Brice 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.

Most games double-figure REBOUNDS — season
24 Armando Bacot, 2021-22 (in 30 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 12.7 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 – 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
12.7 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

• 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.
• Bacot has 870 career rebounds, 15th most in UNC history. John Henson is 14th with 885.

REBOUNDS – CAREER
11. 941 Eric Montross, 1990-94
12. 933 Rusty Clark, 1966-69
13. 890 Ademola Okulaja, 1995-99
14. 885 John Henson, 2009-12
15. 870 Armando Bacot, 2019-

• 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 — 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 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 4.5 rebounds per game in all games and by 6.3 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. 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
3.25 Armando Bacot (296 in 91 games)
3.06 George Lynch, 1989-93

BACOT TIES UNC DOUBLE-DOUBLE MARK
• Bacot's 23 double-doubles tie the UNC single-season record, which Brice Johnson set in 2015-16.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES (POINTS & REBOUNDS) – SEASON
23 Armando Bacot, 2021-22 (in 30 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 is third in the country with 23 double-doubles. Fardaws Aimaq of Utah Valley has 25, Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky has 24 and Bacot has 23.
• Bacot has five 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 76.7% 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 23 30 .767
Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 18 24 .750

• Bacot has 41 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
41 Armando Bacot, 2019-
39 Lennie Rosenbluth, 1954-57
37 John Henson, 2009-12

• Bacot has 41 career double-doubles in 91 games. His double-double rate (45.1%) 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 41 91 .451
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 1,156 points. He passed Pete Chilcutt for 64th place at UNC in the Syracuse game.

Scoring – CAREER
61. 1,191 George Glamack, 1938-41
62. 1,187 Jerry Vayda, 1952-56
63. 1,165 Matt Doherty, 1980-84
64. 1,156 Armando Bacot, 2019-
65. 1,150 Pete Chilcutt, 1987-91

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC free throw shooting at 76.6%, 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 14 times this season, including each of the last four games (11 times in 19 ACC games). UNC made a season-best 91.3% on 21 of 23 shooting at NC State.
• The Tar Heels are 61 for 71 (85.9%) over the last four games, all wins.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE
.783 in 1983-84 (551 of 704)
.766 in 2021-22 (423 of 552)
.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 (.875) and sophomore guards Caleb Love (.862) and RJ Davis (.805) lead UNC at the stripe this season.
• Love is fifth (.840) all-time at UNC in free throw percentage.

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

SCORING ODDS AND ENDS
• Five Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Armando Bacot and Caleb Love have both scored 20 or more nine times, Brady Manek six and RJ Davis and Dawson Garcia each have three 20-point games.
• Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points 30 times in 30 games, including six games in which two players scored 20 or more (Loyola, Brown, Charleston, Elon, home vs. Georgia Tech and Syracuse). 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 11-0 over two seasons when Love scores 20 or more (9-0 this season).
• Carolina is 17-0 when leading at the half.
• Carolina is 11-1 when scoring 80 or more points.

THREE-POINTERS
• Carolina made a season-high 15 three-pointers at home against NC State and is averaging 8.5 per game, on pace for the second highest average in UNC history.
• Carolina is making 0.3 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 8.50
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 8.50
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 7.8 per game. UNC also leads the league and is 18th nationally in rebounds per game (39.7).
• 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 27 times in 30 games this season. The Tar Heels are 22-5 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 14-5 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 14 or more 12 times and at least 15 once (16-2 in 2018-19).
• Carolina's 45 10-win seasons are five more than Duke, which is second with 40. NC State (16), Virginia (15) and Wake Forest (13) are next.

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 7-7 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 18-0 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 22 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 66.7 points in its 22 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).

BACOT PICKS UP ACADEMIC, MEDIA AWARDS
• Armando Bacot was named the 2021-22 men's basketball recipient of the Athletic Director's Scholar-Athete Award. Each team has one student who receives the award.
• Bacot also was named the winner of thr Caulton Tudor Award, which is given annually to the men's or women's basketball player in the Triangle for best media access.
• Marcus Paige and Theo Pinson were previous UNC winners of the award, which the sports staff at the News and Observer began in 2016 to honor Tudor, the longtime award-winning columnist for the Raleigh- (and now Charlotte and Durham) based paper.

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."

TAR HEEL STAFF
• Hubert Davis is the ninth person to win 20 or more games in his first season as Carolina's head coach. 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; Cameron Johnson, Phoenix; Nassir Little, Portland; Theo Pinson, Dallas; Day'Ron Sharpe, Brooklyn; Coby White, Chicago

G-League
Justin Jackson, Texas

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