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University of North Carolina Athletics
Monday, November 6
Chapel Hill
7 PM
North Carolina
vs
Radford
RJ Davis & Elliot Cadeau
Photo by: Maggie Hobson
Men's Basketball Ready For Radford Monday To Open 2023-24
November 5, 2023 | Men's Basketball
• The 114th season of Carolina Basketball begins regular-season play at home against Radford on Monday, November 6.
• Tip time is 7:01 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The game will be televised by the ACC Network with Wes Durham and Dan Bonner on the call.
• Jones Angell, Pete Chilcutt, Adam Lucas and Dave Nathan provide the radio call on the Tar Heel Sports Network.
• Carolina is 101-12 overall in season openers and has won 18 in a row (last loss in a season opener was against Santa Clara in Oakland in 2004-05).
• Last year, the Tar Heels defeated UNCW, 69-56, in the season and home opener (last loss in a home opener was 2001-02 against Hampton).
• This is the 39th season the Tar Heels are playing in the Smith Center. Carolina is 463-86 all-time in the arena, including 223-18 against non-ACC opponents.
• Carolina is No. 19 in the preseason Associated Press poll and was picked to finish third in the ACC at the league's preseason media day.
• This is the 67th time in 76 seasons of the AP poll the Tar Heels are ranked at least once during a season.
• The 2022-23 Tar Heels went 20-13, including 11-9 in the ACC regular season and 1-1 in the ACC Tournament as the No. 7 seed.
• Last season was the first UNC was not invited to play in the NCAA Tournament when winning 20 or more games and having a winning record in ACC play since 1973-74, when the Tar Heels finished 22-6 overall, 9-3 in the ACC. Only one team per conference was permitted to play in the NCAA Tournament in 1974.
• Hubert Davis became the third UNC head coach to win 20 or more games in his first two seasons with Ben Carnevale (1945-46) and Bill Guthridge (1998-99). • Armando Bacot earned first-team All-ACC honors for the second straight season, the first Tar Heel to repeat as All-ACC since Tyler Hansbrough accomplished that from 2006-09.
• Bacot and guard RJ Davis were UNC's co-Most Valuable Players. For Bacot, it was his third consecutive season winning at least a share of the award. Only Lennie Rosenbluth, Billy Cunningham and Hansbrough also won MVP honors three times.
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• Tip time is 7:01 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The game will be televised by the ACC Network with Wes Durham and Dan Bonner on the call.
• Jones Angell, Pete Chilcutt, Adam Lucas and Dave Nathan provide the radio call on the Tar Heel Sports Network.
• Carolina is 101-12 overall in season openers and has won 18 in a row (last loss in a season opener was against Santa Clara in Oakland in 2004-05).
• Last year, the Tar Heels defeated UNCW, 69-56, in the season and home opener (last loss in a home opener was 2001-02 against Hampton).
• This is the 39th season the Tar Heels are playing in the Smith Center. Carolina is 463-86 all-time in the arena, including 223-18 against non-ACC opponents.
• Carolina is No. 19 in the preseason Associated Press poll and was picked to finish third in the ACC at the league's preseason media day.
• This is the 67th time in 76 seasons of the AP poll the Tar Heels are ranked at least once during a season.
• The 2022-23 Tar Heels went 20-13, including 11-9 in the ACC regular season and 1-1 in the ACC Tournament as the No. 7 seed.
• Last season was the first UNC was not invited to play in the NCAA Tournament when winning 20 or more games and having a winning record in ACC play since 1973-74, when the Tar Heels finished 22-6 overall, 9-3 in the ACC. Only one team per conference was permitted to play in the NCAA Tournament in 1974.
• Hubert Davis became the third UNC head coach to win 20 or more games in his first two seasons with Ben Carnevale (1945-46) and Bill Guthridge (1998-99). • Armando Bacot earned first-team All-ACC honors for the second straight season, the first Tar Heel to repeat as All-ACC since Tyler Hansbrough accomplished that from 2006-09.
• Bacot and guard RJ Davis were UNC's co-Most Valuable Players. For Bacot, it was his third consecutive season winning at least a share of the award. Only Lennie Rosenbluth, Billy Cunningham and Hansbrough also won MVP honors three times.
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