Tar Heels Play ACC Tourney Opener Vs. UVA Thursday In Brooklyn

GAME 32: ACC QUARTERFINAL
• Carolina tied for second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference and is the No. 3 seed in the 2022 ACC Tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
• The Tar Heels went 15-5 in ACC play to earn a double bye and will play No. 6 seed Virginia in the quarterfinals Thursday at approximately 9:30 p.m. (ESPN).
• The Tar Heels have won 11 of their last 13 games and are 23-8 overall. UNC has won five straight, its longest win streak in league play and tied as its longest of the season. The Tar Heels also won five straight games, including four non-conference games and at Georgia Tech, from November 23-December 14.
• Carolina tied Notre Dame for second place in the ACC, one game behind Duke. The Irish are the No. 2 seed by virtue of their 78-73 win over UNC at Notre Dame on January 5.
• The 15 regular-season ACC wins are Carolina's second most all-time. The Tar Heels went 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina is coming off a 94-81 win at fourth-ranked Duke, out-scoring the Blue Devils 55-40 in the second half, including 38-20 over the final 10 and a half minutes.
• Four Tar Heels – Armando Bacot (23), Caleb Love (22), RJ Davis (21) and Brady Manek (20) – scored 20 or more points for the first time in a game in UNC history.
• The Tar Heels shot 59.4% from the floor in the second half and committed a season-low five turnovers for the game.
• The 13-point win over Duke marked the second time in UNC history the Tar Heels were beaten at home by 20-plus points then defeated the same opponent on their home court by double digits. Duke defeated UNC, 87-67, in Chapel Hill on February 5. In 2019, Louisville beat UNC by 21 at the Smith Center; three weeks later the Tar Heels won by 10 in Louisville.
• NCAA.com named Carolina its National Team of the Week following its wins over Syracuse and Duke.
• Carolina has won 20 or more games for the 62nd time (first time since going 29-7 in 2018-19).
• With the 94-81 win at Duke the Tar Heels went 7-3 (.700) on the road in ACC play this season and 8-3 (.727) in all road games. The national average road win percentage this college basketball season was 42.5%.
• This was Carolina's 43rd winning record on the road in 69 seasons of ACC basketball.
• As of Tuesday, March 8, Carolina is No. 19 in the country in ESPN's Strength of Record, 25th in Sagarin, 28th in the BPI, 32nd in KenPom and 36th in the KPI. The average of those six metrics is 28.

BACK IN THE AP POLL
• Carolina is ranked No. 25 in the country in this week's Associated Press poll, the 931st time the Tar Heels are in the AP poll, second most all-time.
• This week is Carolina's first appearance in the AP poll since November 15, when the Tar Heels were ranked No. 18 prior to games that week against Charleston, Purdue and Tennessee.

CAROLINA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• The Tar Heels have won 18 ACC Tournament titles and played in the championship game 35 times.
• UNC's championships were won in 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008 and 2016.
• The Tar Heels are 104-49, including 47-13 in the quarterfinals.
• Carolina is second in wins (104), second in championships (18) and first in championship game appearances (35).
• Carolina is 13-8 as the No. 3 seed. The Tar Heels won the 1997 ACC Tournament in Greensboro as the No. 3 seed.
• The Tar Heels have won at least one game in each of the last seven ACC Tournaments.

BROOKLYN
• Carolina is 4-2 in ACC Tournament games in Brooklyn.
• The top-seeded Tar Heels went 1-1 in 2017, defeating Miami in the quarterfinals and losing to Duke in the semifinals.
• In 2018, No. 6 seed Carolina beat Syracuse, No. 3 Miami and No. 2 Duke to reach the championship game, where No. 1 Virginia won the title, 71-63.
• Carolina is 6-3 all-time in Brooklyn. In addition to the 4-2 record in the Barclays Center in two previous ACC Tournaments, Carolina went 1-1 against the Crescent Athletic Club, defeating the home team in 1925 and losing in 1935.
• In December 2015, the Tar Heels beat UCLA in the Barclays Center in the CBS Sports Classic.
• Carolina is 42-24 in Brooklyn and Manhattan, which includes games in two different Madison Square Gardens, the Barclays Center, the Crescent Athletic Club and the New York Athletic Club.

NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY TIES
• Carolina head coach Hubert Davis was the first round draft pick by the New York Knicks in 1992. Davis played four seasons with the Knicks. In 1994, he was the team's fourth-leading scorer behind Patrick Ewing, John Starks and Charles Oakley as the Knicks advanced to Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
• Numerous Tar Heel players and coaches have New York/New Jersey roots. What follows is a partial list of players from the metropolitan area and some of their notable accomplishments:

Cole Anthony, New York City, 2020 NBA first round draft pick, Orlando
Jimmy Black, Bronx, starting point guard 1982 NCAA champions
Pete Brennan, Brooklyn, starting forward 1957 NCAA champions, 1958 ACC Player of the Year
Larry Brown, Long Beach, Naismith Hall of Fame, NBA and NCAA champion coach, gold medalist player
Bill Chamberlain, New York City, 1971 NIT MVP
Ed Cota, Brooklyn, starting point guard on 1997, 1998 and 2000 Final Four teams
Billy Cunningham, Brooklyn, Naismith Hall of Famer, NBA 50 Greatest Players, NBA champion player and coach
Bob Cunningham, Bronx, starting forward, 1957 NCAA champions
RJ Davis, White Plains, currently starting guard, fourth-leading scorer, second in assists
Matt Doherty, East Meadow, N.Y., starting small forward 1982 NCAA champions, UNC head coach 2000-03
Eddie Fogler, Flushing, played in three Final Fours, national coach of the year at Wichita State
Bobby Gersten, Long Beach, 1939-42
Danny Green, North Babylon, 2009 NCAA champions, three-time NBA champion with San Antonio, Toronto and the L.A. Lakers
Michael Jordan, Brooklyn, six-time NBA champion, two-time gold medalist, 1982 NCAA champion, ESPN's Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century
Tom Kearns, Bergenfield, N.J., starting point guard, 1957 NCAA champions
Mitch Kupchak, Brentwood, 1976 Olympian, ACC Player of the Year, multiple NBA championships as player and executive
York Larese, New York City, three-time All-ACC, All-America
Frank McGuire, New York City, head coach of the undefeated 1957 NCAA champions
Doug Moe, Brooklyn, longtime NBA head coach
Mike O'Koren, Jersey City, N.J., three-time All-America, longtime NBA player and coach
Sam Perkins, Brooklyn and Latham, three-time All-America, starting center 1982 NCAA champions, 17-year NBA veteran
Derrick Phelps, Queens, starting point guard, 1993 NCAA champions
Joe Quigg, Brooklyn, made game-winning free throws in 1957 NCAA title game vs. Kansas
Brian Reese, Bronx, starting small forward, 1993 NCAA champions
Lennie Rosenbluth, Bronx, 1957 National Player of the Year, leading scorer 1957 undefeated NCAA champions
Charlie Scott, New York City, Naismith Hall of Famer, All-America, ACC Athlete of the Year, gold medalist, ABA Rookie of the Year and NBA champion
Kenny Smith, Queens, 1987 Basketball Times Player of the Year, two-time NBA champion
Pat Sullivan, Bogota, N.J.; 1993 NCAA champions, Carolina's director of recruiting, nearly 20 years on NBA coaching staffs
Donnie Walsh, Riverdale, longtime NBA executive

SERIES VS. VIRGINIA
• Carolina is 132-60 against Virginia. The Tar Heels' 74-58 win in Chapel Hill on January 8 snapped the Cavaliers' seven-game win streak over the Tar Heels, their longest since 1911-16.
• Details on Carolina's win are on page 19.
• Carolina is 13-4 against UVA in the ACC Tournament. In 2016, the Tar Heels won their 18th ACC Tournament title by defeating Virginia in Washington, D.C. Two years later in Brooklyn, the Cavs turned the table and beat UNC in the title game.
• The teams haven't played in the quarterfinal round since UNC beat Virginia in 2006 in Greensboro.

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.

BRADY IS ACC'S PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Graduate student Brady Manek scored 22 points against Syracuse and 22 at Duke, had six assists and only one turnover in 83 minutes and made 8 of 16 three-pointers in the two games to earn ACC Player of the Week honors.
• Carolina players won ACC Player-of-the-Week honors four times in conference play this season. Armando Bacot was the only player in the league to win the award three times, all of which came during conference play.

BACOT LEADS CAROLINA, ACC
• Armando Bacot leads the ACC in field goal percentage and rebounding, just the ninth time in 69 seasons one player has led in both categories. It would also be only 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

• 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 is averaging 16.6 points and 12.5 rebounds, shooting 59.5% and has blocked 54 shots. No other Tar Heel has ever reached all four of those numbers in one season.
• Nationally, Bacot is third in rebounding (12.5)and double-doubles (23), fifth in offensive boards (3.8) and 13th in field goal percentage (.595).
• Bacot averaged 14.1 rebounds in the 20 ACC games. That was the highest average in league play since Duncan averaged 14.9 in 16 games in 1996-97.
• Bacot's 14.5 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.
• 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 led UNC with 23 points in the win at Duke, his 10th 20-point game this season. He has also blocked five or more shots four times and made 60 percent or better from the floor 18 times.

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 UNC with 73 threes. Manek is knocking down triples at a career-best 39.5% (previous was 38.3% as a freshman at OU).
• The Harrah, Okla., native made five 3FGs at Duke, his 14th career game with five or more, and has made 308 in his college career.
• Manek has made at least one three-pointer in 125 of 153 games and multiple threes 81 times (at least one in 29 of 31 games as a Tar Heel with two or more 18 times).
• Manek is averaging 2.35 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 is 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. Manek is just ahead of current Dallas Maverick Reggie Bullock, who 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 73 in 31 games.

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 73, Caleb Love has 70 and RJ Davis 56.
• The trio combined for 12 threes in the home win over Syracuse (five by Davis) and nine in the win at Duke (five by Manek).
• 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 33 minutes per game.
• Davis and Love have combined for 29.3 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 126 three-pointers and 221 assists.
• Davis leads the team in three-point percentage (.406) and is third in free throw shooting (.798); Love leads the team at the FT line (.875) and is third from three (.380).
• 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 February 28 vs. Syracuse.
• Love is making 38.0% of his three-point attempts, up from 26.6% a year ago. Davis has improved from 32.3 to 40.6%.
• In Carolina's 23 wins, Davis and Love are shooting 43.5% and 41.5%, 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.
• Black was third in voting for AC Defensive Player of the Year and earned his first award for the league's All-Defensive team.
• The Concord, N.C., native is shooting career-best percentages from the floor (.482) and the free throw line (.882).
• Black had a season-high seven assists against Syracuse and three more at Duke. Carolina is 13-0 this season when the senior has three or more assists and 12-2 in his career when he has five or more.

BACOT CROWDING THE UNC RECORD BOOK
• Armando Bacot has 387 rebounds this season, which heading into the postseason 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)
387 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 31 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.

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

• 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 877 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. 877 Armando Bacot, 2019-

• 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 4.5 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. 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
3.23 Armando Bacot (297 in 92 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 31 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 tied for third in the country with 23 double-doubles. Fardaws Aimaq of Utah Valley has 26, Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky has 25 and Bacot and Morehead State's Johni Broome have 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 74.2% of Carolina's games this season, the fifth-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
Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 18 24 .750
Armando Bacot, 2021-22 23 31 .742

• 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 92 games. His double-double rate (44.6%) is the eighth highest by a Tar Heel and the third highest in the last 50 years.
• 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 1,179 points. He passed Matt Doherty for 63rd place at UNC in the Duke game.

Scoring – CAREER
60. 1,213 Sean May, 2002-05
61. 1,191 George Glamack, 1938-41
62. 1,187 Jerry Vayda, 1952-56
63. 1,179 Armando Bacot, 2019-
64. 1,165 Matt Doherty, 1980-84

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC free throw shooting at 77.0%, their second-best percentage ever (78.3% in 1983-84).
• Last season, UNC shot 66.8%.
• Carolina is 19th in the country.
• 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 15 times this season, including each of the last five games (12 times in 20 ACC games). UNC made a season-best 91.3% on 21 of 23 shooting at NC State.
• This is the first time in UNC history the Tar Heels shot 80.% in five consecutive games.
• The Tar Heels are 80 for 93 (86.0%) over the last five games, all wins.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE
.783 in 1983-84 (551 of 704)
.770 in 2021-22 (442 of 574)
.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 (.875) and RJ Davis (.798) 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). That sent Love from fifth place all the way to No. 1 in UNC history in free throw percentage at 85.0%.

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

• Love is shooting 87.5% this season, the sixth-best percentage in a season by a Tar Heel.

Highest FT percentage — 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)
.875 Caleb Love, 2021-22 (112 of 128)

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 10 times, Brady Manek seven, RJ Davis four and Dawson Garcia three.
• Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points 34 times in 31 games, including seven games in which two players scored 20 or more (Loyola, Brown, Charleston, Elon, home vs. Georgia Tech and Syracuse) 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 12-0 over two seasons when Love scores 20 or more (10-0 this season).
• Carolina is 17-0 when leading at the half.
• Carolina is 12-1 when scoring 80 or more points.
• Carolina's 55 second-half points and 94 total points were the most scored against Duke this season.

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 0.4 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 – Last 10 Years
2021-22 8.52
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 8.52
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 ninth in the country in rebound margin at plus 7.6 per game. UNC also leads the league and is 17th 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 28 times in 31 games this season. The Tar Heels are 23-5 when out-rebounding their opponents and 0-3 when getting out-rebounded (Tennessee, Kentucky and Duke in Chapel Hill).
• The Blue Devils out-rebounded Carolina by 16 in Duke's 20-point win in the Smith Center; last Saturday in Durham the Tar Heels had a 37-34 edge on the boards.

10 ACC WINS ... AGAIN
• Carolina went 15-5 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 15 twice (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
11 Florida State

MISCELLANEOUS
• The Tar Heels are 15-1 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 23 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 67.3 points in its 23 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 the Caulton Tudor Award, which is given annually to the men's or women's basketball player in the Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham area 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

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