Men's Basketball 2021-22 Season Review

2021-22 REVIEW
• North Carolina advanced to its NCAA-record 21st Final Four and 12th national championship game.
• Kansas, the No. 1 seed from the Midwest Regional, defeated the Tar Heels, 72-69, in the national championship game in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
• It was the third time in the last six NCAA Tournaments the Tar Heels played in the national championship game.
• The Tar Heels finished the season 29-10 overall with wins in 17 of the last 21 games.
• Carolina defeated four ranked opponents in its last nine games, including at No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor, No. 11 UCLA and No. 9 Duke in New Orleans in the Final Four.
• That was the fourth time a UNC team has beaten three top-10 opponents in a season as an unranked team (also in 1964-65, 1989-90 and 2002-03).
• Carolina became the first school to play in the Final Four and the national championship game in nine consecutive decades (from the 1940s to the 2020s).
• Carolina won five games in the 2022 NCAA Tournament. In addition to playing in the most Final Fours, UNC is first in all-time NCAA Tournament wins with 131, second in seasons played in the Tournament (52), second in games (180), second in winning percentage (.728), second in championship game appearances (12) and third in titles (6).
• Only four schools have played in more NCAA Tournament games than Carolina has won (Kentucky, Kansas, Duke and UCLA).
• Carolina and Kansas played in the Final Four for the fifth time, two more than any other matchup in Final Four history (Duke-Kansas, UCLA-Louisville and UNC-Michigan State have played three times in the Final Four).
• Hubert Davis, the winner of the John McLendon Award (CollegeInsider.com) and Big House Gaines Award (National Sports Media Association) as the 2021-22 National Coach of the Year, became the fifth individual to lead his team to the national championship game in his first season as a college head coach (Dick Harp of Kansas in 1957, Indiana State's Bill Hodges in 1979, UCLA's Larry Brown in 1980, Michigan's Steve Fisher in 1989 and Davis).
• This was 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, 8-3 in road games and 6-5 in neutral-site games (won six of its last eight neutral-site games).
• Carolina's neutral-site losses were to the ACC champion (Virginia Tech), a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament (Kansas), a No. 2 seed (Kentucky) and two No. 3 seeds (Purdue and Tennessee).
• Carolina went 9-8 against the NCAA Tournament field.
• The Tar Heels' loss to Virginia Tech in the ACC semifinals ended UNC's season-long six-game win streak.
• Since the home loss to Pittsburgh on February 16 the Tar Heels held the opponents to 40.6% shooting from the floor in winning 11 of 13 games.
• 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%.
• Carolina's win over No. 9-ranked Duke in New Orleans was the Tar Heels' fifth as an unranked team over a ranked opponent this season (also beat No. 24 Michigan, No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 11 UCLA). That is the most wins by an unranked UNC team over ranked opponents since winning five times in 1989-90.
• This was Carolina's 43rd winning record on the road in 69 seasons of ACC basketball.
• Carolina was ranked 19th in the Associated Press preseason poll, 18th in week two and No. 25 on March 7 after winning at Duke, but was unranked in the final poll that came out after the ACC Tournament.
• The Tar Heels were ranked No. 2 in the final coaches' poll that came out after the NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina finished the season No. 16 in KenPom's overall rankings. Here is a look at where Carolina was ranked in KenPom throughout the season:

KenPom Overall Ranking (courtesy Ken Pomeroy)
through 10 games prior to Kentucky game 31
through December (12 games) 35
through Jan. 15 win over Georgia Tech 24
after Jan. 18 loss to Miami 37
after Jan. 22 loss to Wake Forest 43
through Feb. 1 win at Louisville 37
after Feb. 5 loss to Duke 46
prior to Feb. 16 Pittsburgh game 38
after loss to Pittsburgh 48
through Feb. 28 win over Syracuse 38
through March win at Duke 32
through ACC Tournament win over Virginia 25
prior to NCAA Tournament 29
after defeating Marquette in NCAA first round 24
after defeating Baylor 20
after defeating UCLA 18
prior to the Final Four 16
after the Final Four 16

HOW CAROLINA GOT TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
• Carolina was the No. 8 seed in the East.
• The Tar Heels defeated No. 9 Marquette, 95-63, and No. 1 Baylor, 93-86, in overtime in Fort Worth, Texas; and beat No. 4 UCLA, 73-66, and No. 15 Saint Peter's, 69-49, in the regional in Philadelphia to win the East Regional. Saint Peter's had previously eliminated second-seed Kentucky and No. 3 seed Purdue.
• The Tar Heels beat Duke, the second seed and champion of the West Regional, 81-77, in the national semifinal in New Orleans. It was the first time UNC and Duke ever played in the NCAA Tournament.
• Love led UNC with 28 points against the Blue Devils. It was the third time in five career games against Duke he scored 20 or more points.
• It was the third time Love scored 20 or more points in a half in the NCAA Tournament. He scored 21 first-half points vs. Marquette; scored 27 of his 30 against UCLA in the Sweet 16 in the second half; and scored 22 of his 28 vs. Duke in the second half.
• Armando Bacot had 11 points and 21 rebounds against Duke in the semifinals. He became the seventh player in college basketball history with 30 or more double-doubles in a season, joining Navy's David Robinson, West Virginia's Jerry West, Wichita State's Xavier McDaniel, Oklahoma's Blake Griffin and LaSalle's Tom Gola.
• Bacot's 21 rebounds were the most in a Final Four game since Kansas's Nick Collison had 21 vs. Syracuse in the 2003 final.
• It was the 13th time a player had 21 or more rebounds in a Final Four game. The others on this illustrious list include some of the game's all-time greatest players: San Francisco's Bill Russell (twice), Houston's Elvin Hayes, Seattle's Elgin Baylor, NYU's Tom Sanders, Memphis's Larry Kenon, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon, Kentucky's Bill Spivey, UCLA's Lew Alcindor, Jacksonville's Artis Gilmore, UCLA's Bill Walton and Kansas's Nick Collison.
• Bacot's 21 rebounds were the most by UNC in 21 national semifinal games (previous was 17 by Pete Brennan in triple overtime vs. Michigan State in 1957).
• The 81-77 win over Duke included 12 ties and 18 lead changes, both the most in a UNC game this season.
• Bacot (Richmond, Va.) was the Most Outstanding Player of the East Regional. He scored 20 points and tied his career high with 22 rebounds in the Elite 8 vs. Saint Peter's.
• Love scored 20 of UNC's final 29 points, and 27 of his career-high 30 in the second half, to lead the Tar Heels over UCLA.
• RJ Davis scored 30 and Brady Manek had 26 in the second-round win over Baylor. The Tar Heels had a 67-42 lead midway through the second period, but the Bears forced overtime with a 38-13 run. Davis's three-point play in overtime proved to be the key play in Carolina's victory.
• The win over Baylor was Carolina's ninth all-time over a No. 1 seed, tying Duke for the most in NCAA Tournament history.
• The win over Baylor was also the first time UNC eliminated the defending champion in the NCAA Tournament.
• Love scored 30 (21 in the first half) and Manek had 28 in the 32-point win over Marquette, which was the largest margin in NCAA Tournament history in a game between 8 and 9 seeds.

DAVIS ON SHORT FINAL FOUR LISTS
• In addition to becoming the fifth individual to lead his team to the national championship game in his first season as a college head coach, Carolina head coach Hubert Davis also was the 10th individual to lead a team to the Final Four in his first season as a college head coach, and the first since his college assistant coach Bill Guthridge led the Tar Heels to the 1998 Final Four in San Antonio.
• Davis joined Bruce Drake, Oklahoma, 1939; Bully Gilstrap, Texas, 1943; Ray Meyer, DePaul, 1943; Gary Thompson, Wichita State, 1965; Denny Crum, Louisville, 1972; Bill Hodges, Indiana State, 1979; Larry Brown, UCLA, 1980; Steve Fisher, Michigan, 1989; and Guthridge.
• Davis was the second individual to play in a Final Four game and lead the same school to a Final Four as head coach. Davis joined Dick Harp, who played for Kansas in the 1940 Final Four and was head coach of the Jayhawks in 1957 (in the championship game vs. UNC). Harp was an administrative assistant to Dean Smith at UNC from 1986-89, including the 1988-89 season when Jeff Lebo was a senior and Davis a freshman.
• Davis is Carolina's sixth head coach to lead the program to the Final Four, joining Ben Carnevale (1946), Frank McGuire (1957), Dean Smith (11 times), Bill Guthridge (1998 and 2000) and Roy Williams (five times).

CAROLINA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• The 2022 NCAA Tournament was Carolina's 52nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament, which is the second most all-time (Kentucky 59).
• The Tar Heels are 131-49 in the NCAA Tournament. The 131 wins are the most all-time.
• 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 21 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 nine decades: 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2022.
• The Tar Heels have also played in the championship game in each of the last nine decades (1946, 1957, 1968, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2022).

NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS
UCLA 11
Kentucky 8
North Carolina 6
Indiana 5
Duke 5

FINAL FOURS
North Carolina 21
UCLA 18
Kentucky 17
Duke 17
Kansas 16

NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME APPEARANCES
UCLA 13
North Carolina 12
Kentucky 12
Duke 11
Kansas 10

TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
Team No.
Kentucky 59
North Carolina 52
Kansas 50
UCLA 49
Duke 44

TOURNAMENT GAMES
Team No.
Kentucky 182
North Carolina 180
Kansas 163
Duke 157
UCLA 150

TOURNAMENT WINS
Team No.
North Carolina 131
Kentucky 129
Duke 118
Kansas 115
UCLA 108

TOURNAMENT WIN PERCENTAGE
Team No.
Duke (118-39) .752
North Carolina (131-49) .728
UCLA (108-42) .720
Kentucky (129-53) .709
Kansas (115-48) .706

• Carolina is 12-5 as a No. 8 seed.
• Carolina has advanced from the East Regional to the Final Four 16 times, including from Philadelphia in 1957, 2016 and 2022.

CAROLINA AS AN 8 SEED
• Carolina was the fifth No. 8 seed to play in the national championship game. UCLA lost to Louisville in 1980, Villanova defeated Georgetown in 1985, Butler lost to UConn in 2011 and Kentucky lost to UConn in 2014.
• Carolina was a No. 8 seed for the second year in a row and the fifth time overall (1990, 2000, 2013, 2021, 2022). Eight is the lowest Carolina has ever been seeded in the NCAA Tournament.
• This was the second time UNC reached the Final Four as an eight seed (also 2000) and the first time it advanced to the title game as an eight seed.
• The Tar Heels are 12-5 as an eight seed, including 4-1 in the first round, 3-1 in the second round, 2-1 in the Sweet 16, 2-0 in the Elite 8, 1-1 in the national semifinals and 0-1 in the title game.

NCAA TOURNAMENT AWARDS
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love both earned NCAA All-Tournament honors in the Final Four and the East Regional.
• They became the 17th and 18th Tar Heels to earn All-Regional and All-Final Four honors in the same season.

Carolina's all-FINAL FOUR & REGIONAL HONOREES
IN THE SAME SEASON
2022 Armando Bacot
2022 Caleb Love
2017 Joel Berry II
2017 Justin Jackson
2016 Brice Johnson
2009 Tyler Hansbrough
2009 Ty Lawson
2005 Sean May
2005 Rashad McCants
1993 George Lynch
1993 Eric Montross
1993 Donald Williams
1982 Sam Perkins
1982 James Worthy
1981 Al Wood
1972 Robert McAdoo
1969 Charlie Scott
1968 Larry Miller

• Bacot was the Most Outstanding Player in the East Regional after averaging 17.0 points and 18.5 rebounds in the wins over UCLA and Saint Peter's. He had 21 rebounds in the regional final vs. the Peacocks.

Carolina's NCAA Regional MVPs
2022 East Armando Bacot
2017 South Luke Maye
2016 East Brice Johnson
2009 South Ty Lawson
2008 East Tyler Hansbrough
2005 East Sean May
2000 South Joseph Forte
1998 East Antawn Jamison
1997 East Shammond Williams
1995 Southeast Jerry Stackhouse
1993 East George Lynch
1991 East Rick Fox
1982 East James Worthy
1981 West Sam Perkins
1977 East John Kuester
1972 East Dennis Wuycik
1969 East Charlie Scott
1968 East Rusty Clark
1967 East Bobby Lewis
1957 East Lennie Rosenbluth

DAVIS A FINALIST FOR FOUR NATIONAL AWARDS
• In addition to winning the John McLendon and Big House Gaines Awards as the 2021-22 National Coach of the Year, Hubert Davis was a finalist for four other Coach of the Year awards.
• Davis was a finalist for the Jim Phelan Award for National Coach of the Year, the Skip Prosser Award for Man of the Year, the Ben Jobe Award for Division I Minority Coach of the Year and the Joe B. Hall Award for the top first-year head coach.

ACC AWARDS FOR BACOT, BLACK
• 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.
• USA Today named Bacot a third-team All-America, one of two ACC players on the paper's first three teams.
• Bacot was a finalist for the Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award.
• 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 in Brooklyn against Virginia and Virginia Tech.

BACOT'S HISTORIC SEASON
• Armando Bacot led Carolina in scoring (16.3), rebounding (13.1), field goal percentage (.569) and blocks (65). He is the first player ever to lead the Tar Heels in those four categories in consecutive seasons.
• Bacot led the nation in double-doubles with 31, was second in offensive rebounding (4.2) and third in rebounding.
• Bacot led the ACC in double-doubles, offensive rebounding and rebounding, was second in field goal percentage, fifth in blocks and seventh in scoring.
• He tied the all-time NCAA single-season record with 31 double-doubles.

MOST DOUBLE-DOUBLES – NCAA season
31 Armando Bacot
31 David Robinson, Navy, 1985-86
30 Blake Griffin, Oklahoma, 2008-09
30 Xavier McDaniel, Wichita State, 1984-85
30 Jerry West, West Virginia, 1959-60
30 Tom Gola, LaSalle, 1954-55
30 Tom Gola, LaSalle, 1953-54

• Bacot became the first player in college basketball history with double-doubles in six NCAA Tournament games in a season (Antawn Jamison had held the previous UNC record with five in 1998).
• He had 99 rebounds in six NCAA Tournament games, the second most in NCAA Tournament history and 30 more than the previous UNC record of 69 by Kennedy Meeks in 2017.

MOST REBOUNDS – ONE NCAA TOURNAMENT
102 Tom Gola, LaSalle, 1954 (5 games)
99 Armando Bacot (6 games)
97 Elvin Hayes, Houston, 1968 (5 games)
96 Tom Gola, LaSalle, 1955 (5 games)
93 Artis Gilmore, Jacksonville, 1970 (5 games)

MOST REBOUNDS – ONE NCAA TOURNAMENT, UNC
99 Armando Bacot (6 games)
69 Kennedy Meeks, 2017 (6 games)
67 Pete Brennan, 1957 (5 games)
64 Sean May, 2005 (6 games)
63 Antawn Jamison, 1998 (5 games

• He grabbed 41 more rebounds than any other player in the 2022 NCAA Tournament.
• Bacot became the first Tar Heel ever with two NCAA Tournament games with 20 or more rebounds. He had 22 against Saint Peter's in the regional final and 21 vs. Duke in the Final Four. Tyler Zeller is the only other Tar Heel with at least 20 in an NCAA Tourney game (had 22 against Ohio in 2012).
• Bacot set the UNC single-season record for games with 10 or more rebounds (32) and tied Billy Cunningham for the record for games with 20 or more (5).
• He broke Tim Duncan's previous single-season ACC record of 29 double-doubles, which Duncan set in 1996-97.
• He shattered the single-season Tar Heel record with 511 rebounds, 95 more than the previous record set in 2015-16 by Brice Johnson (who had 416 in one more game than Bacot).
• The 511 rebounds were the fourth-most in a season in ACC history, and he became the first player with at least 500 since 1956.
• His rebounding average (13.1) was the fifth highest in a season by a Tar Heel and the highest since Cunningham in 1964-65.
• He led the ACC in all games by 4.94 rebounds per game (the difference between second place and 20th was 2.1 per game) and averaged 14.1 rebounds in league play, the most since Duncan averaged 14.9 in 1996-97.
• Duncan is the only ACC player ever to have higher scoring and rebounding averages and a higher field goal percentage in the same season (1996-97) than Bacot's numbers.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES, 2021-22
31 Armando Bacot
28 Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
27 Fardaws Aimaq, Utah State
23 Johni Broome, Morehead State
21 Chuba Ohams, Fordham

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING, 2021-22
5.3 Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
4.2 Armando Bacot
4.0 Chuba Ohams, Fordham
3.9 Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton
3.8 Sukhmail Mathon, Boston University

REBOUNDING, 2021-22
15.1 Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
13.6 Fardaws Aimaq, Utah State
13.1 Armando Bacot
12.2 Norcahd Omier, Arkansas State
11.6 Chuba Ohams, Fordham

MOST REBOUNDS – UNC season
511 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)

MOST REBOUNDS – ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE, season
581 Ronnie Shavlik, NC State, 1954-55
545 Ronnie Shavlik, NC State, 1955-56
515 Dickie Hemric, Wake Forest, 1954-55
511 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

Most games double-figure REBOUNDS — UNC season
32 Armando Bacot, 2021-22 (in 39 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

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
13.1 Armando Bacot, 2021-22

• 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.
• Bacot has 1,001 career rebounds, 10th most in UNC history. He is just the third Tar Heel with Cunningham and Jamison with 1,000 rebounds in three seasons.

REBOUNDS – UNC CAREER
7. 1027 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
8. 1006 Mitch Kupchak, 1972-76
9. 1003 Brad Daugherty, 1982-86
10. 1001 Armando Bacot, 2019-
11. 942 Luke Maye, 2015-19

• Bacot has tied the sixth-highest career rebounding average by a Tar Heel at 10.0 per game, the highest career average since Sean May, who also 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 Armando Bacot, 2019-
10.0 Sean May, 2002-05
10.0 Bud Maddie, 1953-54
9.9 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
9.2 Larry Miller, 1965-68

• 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 (12/13/21-2/1/22)
11 Doug Moe, 1959-61
11 Doug Moe, 1960-61

AVERAGE A DOUBLE-DOUBLE — UNC career
Armando Bacot: 13.0 ppg, 10.0 rpg, 2019-
Sean May: 15.8 ppg & 10.0 rpg, 2002-05
Robert McAdoo: 19.5 ppg & 10.1 rpg, 1971-72
Rusty Clark: 14.7 ppg & 10.2 rpg, 1966-69
Billy Cunningham: 24.8 ppg & 15.4 rpg, 1962-65
Doug Moe: 16.5 ppg & 10.6 rpg, 1958-61
Pete Brennan: 16.4 ppg & 10.5 rpg, 1955-58
Lennie Rosenbluth: 26.9 ppg & 10.4 rpg, 1954-57

MOST OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS per game – UNC CAREER
(100 or more since 1986-87)
3.61 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
3.47 Sean May, 2002-05
3.44 Armando Bacot (344 in 100 games)
3.39 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-09
3.06 George Lynch, 1989-93

DOUBLE-DOUBLES – ACC SEASON
31 Armando Bacot, 2021-22
29 Tim Duncan, Wake Forest, 1996-97
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
31 Armando Bacot, 2021-22
23 Brice Johnson, 2015-16
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

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 31 39 .795
Billy Cunningham, 1964-65 18 24 .750

• 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.
• He ended the season with eight consecutive double-doubles, all in the postseason (ACC and NCAA Tournament games).

Consecutive DOUBLE-DOUBLES – UNC
40 Billy Cunningham, 1962-64
11 Doug Moe, 1960-61
11 Doug Moe, 1959-61
10 Armando Bacot, 2021-22
10 Billy Cunningham, 1964-65

• Bacot had 13 more double-doubles in 2021-22 than he had in his first two seasons combined (18).

DOUBLE-DOUBLES (POINTS & REBOUNDS) – UNC CAREER
60 Billy Cunningham, 1962-65
51 Antawn Jamison, 1995-98
49 Armando Bacot, 2019-
47 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-09
47 Sam Perkins, 1980-84

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
Armando Bacot, 2019- 49 100 .490
Doug Moe, 1958-61 29 60 .483
Rusty Clark, 1966-69 43 91 .473
Larry Miller, 1965-68 42 91 .462
Robert McAdoo, 1971-72 14 31 .452
Pete Brennan, 1955-58 35 81 .432
Sean May, 2002-05 33 77 .429

• 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 1,300 points, 46th most in UNC history.

Scoring – UNC CAREER
44. 1,334 Pete Brennan 1955-58
45. 1,322 Al Lifson, 1952-55
46. 1,300 Armando Bacot
47. 1,296 Kevin Madden, 1985-90
48. 1,293 George Karl, 1970-73

• Bacot, Caleb Love and Brady Manek combined to score 1,845 points, the fourth most by three players in UNC history.

MOST POINTS BY THREE PLAYERS – UNC SEASON
2,051 by Antawn Jamison, Shammond Williams,
Vince Carter in 1997-98
1,976 by Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington,
Danny Green in 2007-08
1,887 by Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington,
Ty Lawson in 2008-09
1,845 by Armando Bacot, Caleb Love,
Brady Manek in 2021-22
1,790 by Justin Jackson, Joel Berry II,
Kennedy Meeks in 2016-17

BRADY'S BIG IMPACT
• Brady Manek, a 6-9 power forward with exceptional range, scored 20 or more points in five of his last 10 games, including his two highest scoring games as a Tar Heel with 28 against Marquette in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and 26 in round two against Baylor.
• Manek won the Riley Wallace Award from CollegeInsiders.com as the transfer with the most impact in college basketball this season.
• Manek scored 113 points in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, which tied Caleb Love for the most points by any player this season.
• His 22 three-pointers were the most in the Tournament and the most ever by a Tar Heel in one NCAA Tournament.
• His 3.7 threes per game were the second highest average of any player in the 2022 NCAA Tournament who played multiple games.

MOST THREE-POINTERS, ONE NCAA TOURNAMENT
28 Carsen Edwards, Purdue, 2019
27 Glen Rice, Michigan, 1989
26 Freddie Banks, UNLV, 1987
24 Dennis Scott, Georgia Tech, 1990
23 Jeff Fryer, Loyola Marymount, 1990
23 Jason Williams, Duke, 2001
23 Luther Head, Illinois, 2005
23 Lee Humphreys, Florida, 2007
23 Stephen Curry, Davidson, 2008
23 Shelvin Mack, Butler, 2011
22 Brady Manek, 2022

MOST THREE-POINTERS, ONE NCAA TOURNAMENT – UNC
22 Brady Manek, 2022
20 Marcus Paige, 2016
19 Caleb Love, 2022
19 Donald Williams, 1993
17 Wayne Ellington, 2009

3FGS PER GAME, 2022 NCAA TOURNAMENT
includes players who played multiple games
3.75 Kyler Edwards, Houston (15 in 4 games)
3.67 Brady Manek (22 in 6 games)
3.67 Cornac Ryan, Notre Dame (11 in 3 games)
3.50 four players

• Manek scored 20 or more 10 times as a Tar Heel and scored in double figures 106 times in five seasons of college basketball.
• Manek led UNC this season with 98 threes, second most ever by a Tar Heel, and in three-point percentage at a career-best 40.3% (previous was 38.3% as a freshman at OU).

MOST THREE-POINTERS — SEASON, UNC
105 Justin Jackson, 2016-17
98 Brady Manek, 2021-22
96 Cameron Johnson, 2018-19
95 Shammond Williams, 1996-97
94 Marcus Paige, 2014-15
93 Caleb Love, 2021-22
93 Joel Berry II, 2017-18
89 P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
88 Joel Berry II, 2016-17
88 Reggie Bullock, 2012-13

MOST THREE-POINTERS by two players — SEASON
193 Justin Jackson (105), Joel Berry II (88), 2016-17
191 Manek (98) and Love (93)
178 Cameron Johnson (96), Coby White (82), 2018-19
177 P.J. Hairston (89), Reggie Bullock (88), 2012-13
165 Joel Berry II (93), Kenny Williams (72), 2017-18

• Manek established career highs in his one season as a Tar Heel in games (39), scoring average (15.1), points (589), field goals (219), three-pointers (98), three-point percentage (.403), offensive rebounds (58), rebounds (237) and assists (70).
• He scored his 2,000th career point on a key three-pointer late in the game vs. UCLA. He made 333 threes in his career.
• The Harrah, Okla., native made five 3FGs against Marquette in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, his 15th career game with five or more.
• On March 10, he out-scored Virginia, 19-13, in the first half of Carolina's 63-43 win in the ACC quarterfinals.
• He earned ACC Player of the Week honors in the final week of the regular season, scoring 22 points in an overtime win against Syracuse and 20 in the win at Duke.
• Manek made at least one three-pointer in 132 of 161 games and multiple threes 88 times (at least one in 36 of 39 games as a Tar Heel with two or more 25 times).
• Manek averaged 2.5 threes per game this season, the second-most by a Tar Heel who measured 6-9 or taller behind only current Phoenix Sun Cameron Johnson, who averaged 2.67 threes in earning first-team All-ACC honors in 2018-19.

MANEK LEADS ACC IN THREE-POINT PERCENTAGE
• Brady Manek shot a career-high 40.3% from three-point range, which led the ACC. He made 98 of 203 threes (.4033), just a fraction ahead of Syracuse's Joe Girard III, who made 89 of 221 (.4027).
• Manek is the fifth Tar Heel ever to lead the ACC in three-point percentage with Hubert Davis in 1990-91, Dante Calabria in 1994-95, Raymond Felton in 2004-05 and Cameron Johnson in 2018-19.
• Manek is one of four players at least 6 feet, 9 inches tall to lead the ACC in three-point percentage with Duke's Christian Laettner (6-11 in 1991-92), Wake Forest's Ricardo Peral (6-9 in 1995-96) and UNC's Cameron Johnson (6-9 in 2018-19).

ACC LEADERS, THREE-POINT PERCENTAGE
40.3% Brady Manek, 2021-22
45.7% Cameron Johnson, 2018-19
44.0% Raymond Felton, 2004-05
49.6% Dante Calabria, 1994-95
48.9% Hubert Davis, 1990-91

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 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. 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.

MANEK IN ELITE COMPANY OF TAR HEELS
• Brady Manek scored 28 points against Marquette and 26 vs. Baylor in Carolina's first- and second-round wins in Fort Worth.
• He became the fifth Tar Heel to score at least 26 points in consecutive NCAA games.
• Lennie Rosenbluth, Phil Ford and Michael Jordan won National Player-of-the-Year honors; J.R. Reid was a three-time All-NCAA Tournament selection and consensus All-America.

CONSECUTIVE GAMES, 26 OR MORE POINTS
NCAA TOURNAMENT BY A TAR HEEL
Brady Manek, 2022
(28 vs. Marquette, 26 vs. Baylor)
J.R. Reid, 1987
(27 vs. Michigan, 31 vs. Notre Dame)
Michael Jordan, 1983-84
(26 vs. Syracuse, 1983; 27 vs. Temple, 1984)
Phil Ford, 1977
(27 vs. Purdue, 29 vs. Notre Dame)
Lennie Rosenbluth, 1957
(29 vs. Yale, 39 vs. Canisius)

THREE WITH 50 THREES
• Three Tar Heels made 50 or more three-pointers this season for just the fourth time in UNC history.
• Brady Manek led with 98, Caleb Love connected 93 times and RJ Davis made 66.
• 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 the first time two Tar Heels made 90 or more threes in a season.
• Manek and Love combined for 191 threes, the second-most by two Tar Heels in a season.

DAVIS AND LOVE BACKCOURT ACES
• Sophomores RJ Davis and Caleb Love started every game together in the backcourt except Senior Night, averaging 34 minutes a game.
• Davis and Love combined for 29.4 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game. A year ago as freshmen, they combined for 18.9 points and 5.5 assists.
• They combined for 159 three-pointers and 281 assists.
• Love made a career-high six three-pointers against Florida State, Marquette and UCLA.
• Davis hit a career-high six three-pointers in November in a 26-point outing against Brown, hit five vs. Syracuse ands made five (four in the first half) vs. top-seed Baylor.
• They became the first pair of Tar Heels ever to score 30 points (both career bests) in consecutive NCAA Tournament games – Davis had 30 against Baylor and Love scored 30 vs. UCLA.
• Love scored 27 points in the second half in the Sweet 16 win over the Bruins and 22 in the second half to knock out Duke in the national semifinals.

DAVIS'S NCAA PLAY
• Sophomore guard RJ Davis became the first Tar Heel ever to have double-digit assists in one NCAA Tournament game followed by a 30-point performance in the next.
• The White Plains, N.Y., native, who handled more of the point guard duties as the season developed, dished out a career-best 12 assists vs. Marquette and scored a career-high 30 in eliminating Baylor in the second round.
• Two other Tar Heels (Joel Berry II in the 2016 and Kenny Smith twice in 1987) had consecutive NCAA games with 10 or more assists followed by at least 20 points, but no one had ever done 10 assists/30 points back-to-back.
• Davis became the 13th Tar Heel to score 30 points in an NCAA Tournament game and the first since Tyler Zeller had 32 against Long Island in 2011.
• His 12 assists vs. Marquette equaled the second most by a Tar Heel in NCAA play.

Assists in NCAA Tournament game – UNC
14 Kendall Marshall vs. Washington, 2011 East 2nd
12 RJ Davis vs. Marquette, 2022 East 1st
12 Kenny Smith vs. Notre Dame, 1987 East Semifinal

BLACK'S PLAY A KEY TO SECOND-HALF SURGE
• Leaky Black became one of four Tar Heels to amass 600 career points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists, 100 steals and 50 blocks.
• The only other Tar Heels to hit each mark are George Lynch, 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.
• He was a finalist for the Lefty Driesell Award as the top defender in the country.
• The Concord, N.C., native shot career-best percentages from the floor (.466) and the free throw line (.868).
• Black had 23 assists in the NCAA Tournament (3.8 per game). He dished out a season-high eight assists against Marquette, six vs. Baylor and five in the regional final vs. Saint Peter's.
• Carolina was 17-1 this season when the senior had three or more assists and 15-2 in his career when he has five or more.

FREE THROWS
• The Tar Heels led the ACC in free throw shooting at 76.4%, their second-best percentage ever (78.3% in 1983-84).
• Last season, UNC shot 66.8%.
• This was the ninth time Carolina led the ACC in free throw percentage and the first time since 1987-88.
• Carolina made 80% or better from the free throw line 18 times this season, including 81.8% in the national championship game vs. Kansas.
• UNC shot 80% or better in the final five regular-season ACC games, the first time ever the Tar Heels made 80% from the free throw line in five consecutive games.
• Carolina made 30 more free throws than the opponents attempted this season.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE — UNC SEASON
.783 in 1983-84 (551 of 704)
.764 in 2021-22 (558 of 730)
.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 (.868) and sophomore guards Caleb Love (.863) and RJ Davis (.833) led 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 has the fifth-highest career free throw percentage by a Tar Heel at 84.4%.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PERCENTAGE – UNC CAREER
.848 Shammond Williams, 1994-98
.847 Marvin Williams, 2004-05
.845 Danny Green, 2005-09
.844 Marcus Paige, 2012-16
.844 Caleb Love, 2020- (195 of 231)

LOVE STREAK WAS 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.

SCORING ODDS AND ENDS
• This is the first time four Tar Heels scored 500 or more points in a season. Armando Bacot (635), Caleb Love (621), Brady Manek (589) and RJ Davis (527) scored 500 or more points.
• Bacot and Love scored 600 plus. The last time two players scored 600 in a season was 2017-18 (Luke Maye scored 625 and Joel Berry II had 617).
• Five Tar Heels scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Caleb Love led with 13 20-point games, Armando Bacot had 11, Brady Manek 10, RJ Davis five and Dawson Garcia three.
• Tar Heels scored 20 or more points 42 times in 39 games, including eight games in which two players scored 20 or more (Loyola, Brown, Charleston, Elon, home vs. Georgia Tech, Syracuse, Marquette, Baylor) and the March 5 win at Duke, when the Tar Heels set a school record 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 15-0 over two seasons when Love scores 20 or more (13-0 this season).
• Carolina was 21-1 this season when leading at the half.
• Carolina was 15-1 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.
• Carolina's 93 points were the most scored against Baylor this season.

THREE-POINTERS
• Carolina made a school-record 328 three-pointers this season, breaking the previous high of 312 in 2018-19.

THREE-POINTERS — UNC SEASON
328 2021-22
312 2018-19
305 2017-18
290 2002-03
283 2016-17

• Carolina made a season-high 15 three-pointers at home against NC State and averaged 8.4 per game, the second most in UNC history.
• The Tar Heel made 13 against Marquette, most by Carolina in an NCAA Tournament game. Carolina made 11 vs. Baylor and 10 vs. UCLA. Those were the first instances in which UNC ever made 10 or more threes in even two consecutive games in one NCAA Tournament.
• Carolina made 0.7 more threes per game than its opponents. This was the first time the Tar Heels made more three-pointers than their opponents since 2012-13 and was 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

DOMINATING THE BOARDS
• The Tar Heels led the ACC and were third in the country in rebound margin at plus 8.2 per game. UNC also led the ACC and was sixth nationally in rebounds per game (41.2).
• Carolina averaged 49.3 rebounds per game in the 2022 NCAA Tournament and had a rebound margin of 13.0.
• Carolina had a season-high 55 rebounds in the national championship game vs. Kansas. That equaled the third-most rebounds in a championship game.

MOST REBOUNDS – NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
61 by UCLA vs. Purdue, 1969
60 by San Francisco vs. Iowa, 1956
55 by North Carolina vs. Kansas, 2022
55 by UCLA vs. Kentucky, 1975
55 by Kentucky vs. Seattle, 1958

• Carolina set an NCAA championship game record for rebound margin as the Tar Heels out-rebounded the Jayhawks by 20 (55-35).

LARGEST REBOUND MARGIN – NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
20 by North Carolina vs. Kansas, 2022 (55-35)
19 by UCLA vs. Arkansas, 1995
19 by UCLA vs. Memphis, 1973
16 by Kansas vs. Syracuse, 2003
16 by Baylor vs. Gonzaga, 2021

• The Tar Heels have averaged 40 or more rebounds for the past eight seasons, including 2021-22.
• Carolina has led the ACC in rebound margin in each of the last seven seasons and 14 of the last 19 seasons.
• UNC out-rebounded its opponents 36 times in 39 games this season. The Tar Heels were 29-7 when out-rebounding their opponents and 0-3 when getting out-rebounded (Tennessee, Kentucky and Duke in Chapel Hill).
• Carolina allowed the second-lowest offensive rebounding percentage in the country by its opponents, who rebound only 21.6% of their missed shots.

MISCELLANEOUS
• The Tar Heels went 17-1 when scoring more points off turnovers and 11-9 when the opponents scored more points off turnovers.
• Carolina turned the ball over 12.3 times per game in its 10 losses, which led to 196 points, an average of 19.6 points per game.
• Carolina was 23-1 when the opponents shoot at or under 45% from the floor. The only loss was to Kansas in the national championship when the Jayhawks shot 43.9% from the floor (KU shot 30.3% in the first half and 57.6% in the second).
• The opponents shot 50% or better from the floor four times in the first 11 games and three times in the last 28 games (in UNC losses to Wake Forest, Duke and Pittsburgh).
• Over the last 13 games (since the home loss to Pittsburgh on February 16) the Tar Heels held the opponents to 40.6% from the floor.
• Carolina won eight times 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, 43 by Virginia in Brooklyn and 49 by Saint Peter's).
• The 49 points by Saint Peter's were the fewest by a Tar Heel opponent in 28 NCAA regional finals.
• The Tar Heels held the opponents to 65 or fewer points in 14 of their 29 wins.
• Carolina went 10-0 when shooting at least 50% (under Roy Williams UNC was 220-9 when shooting 50% from the floor).
• Carolina held its opponents to 66.6 points in its 29 victories. The opponents averaged 84.8 points in UNC's 10 losses. Virginia Tech and Kansas both scored 72 points in the last two losses of the season, the fewest points by the opponents in UNC losses.
• The Tar Heels were minus 11 in assist-turnovers (112 assists/123 turnovers) in their 10 losses, while the opponents were plus 75 (168 A/93 TO).

TAR HEEL STAFF
• Hubert Davis was the fourth individual to win 25 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).

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Dawson Garcia

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