Men's Basketball Hosts No. 15 Miami Monday

Monday, February 13

Chapel Hill

7 PM

North Carolina

Miami

Tickets

Caleb Love & Jalen Washington

Photo by: Jerome M. Ibrahim

February 13, 2023 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 26: MIAMI
• The Tar Heels host No. 15 Miami on Monday, February 13, at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
• Carolina is 16-9 overall, 8-6 in the ACC. The Tar Heels are tied for seventh place in the ACC with Duke and Syracuse.
• The Hurricanes have won four in a row and are 20-5 overall, 11-4 in the ACC. The Canes are a half-game out of first place behind Virginia and Pittsburgh, which are both 11-3.
• The Tar Heels are 11-1 at home this season and 26-3 in the Smith Center in the last two seasons.
• Miami will be the sixth team in today's Associated Press the Tar Heels have played this season. UNC lost to the new No. 1 Alabama, No. 7 Virginia, No. 14 Indiana and No. 19 Iowa State and defeated No. 23 NC State.
• Carolina defeated Clemson, 91-71, on Saturday. The Tar Heels tied their season high with 15 three-pointers (on a season-high 33 attempts), had 17 assists on 32 field goals and equaled their season low in turnovers (seven) in the 20-point win.
• Caleb Love made a season-high six three-pointers and scored a game-high 23 points, RJ Davis made four threes and Armando Bacot posted his 16th double-double of the season with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
• Leaky Black drew the primary defensive assignment on Clemson's leading scorer, Hunter Tyson, and held him to three points on just 1 of 2 field goals and no assists. Black was a game-high plus 25.
• Black did not allow Tyson a touch on 19 of 39 possessions. Overall, the Clemson players Black defended attempted just three field goals in 52 possessions.
• The Tar Heel bench outscored the Tigers' non-starters, 25-22, just the sixth time this season the UNC bench outscored an opponent.
• The Miami game is the first time the Tar Heels play on just one day's rest since playing three times in four days in Portland, Ore., back in November.
• This is the first of two Saturday-Monday pairings for UNC in the final three weeks of the regular season. Carolina plays host to Virginia on February 25 then travels to Tallahassee to play at Florida State on the 27th.
• Carolina scored 102 points over the final half at Wake Forest (60) and the first half against Clemson (42). That followed back-to-back halves when the Tar Heels totaled just 50 points (25 in the second half at Duke and 25 in the first at Wake Forest).

UNC-MIAMI ALL-TIME
• Carolina is 26-9 all-time against Miami, including 19-8 since the Canes joined the ACC.
• The Tar Heels are 12-4 vs. Miami in Chapel Hill (all played in the Smith Center).
• This is the first game between UNC and Miami in the Smith Center since a 94-71 Tar Heel victory on 1/25/2020.
• Carolina has won five of the last six games against UM.
• The Canes are ranked No. 15 in the AP poll. This is the highest UM has been ranked in a game vs. the Tar Heels since fifth-ranked UNC beat No. 11 Miami in Chapel Hill on 2/20/2016.

LAST SEASON AT MIAMI
Miami 85, Carolina 57, 1/18/22 in Coral Gables
• The 28-point margin was Carolina's largest loss to Miami (previous 26 in Coral Gables on 2/9/2013).
• Miami led by 27 (49-22) at the half, Carolina's largest halftime deficit since 3/6/2010 (53-26 at Duke).
• Carolina scored a season-low 57 points.
• Carolina's first-half percentage of .226 tied its third-lowest in a half since 1980 and was the lowest since shooting 20.7% at Miami in 2017.
• In the first half, Carolina scored 22 points on 43 possessions, while Miami scored 49 points on 38 possessions.
• Carolina shot 33.8% from the floor, including 6 for 30 from three-point range. The six three-pointers were the fewest in 30 or more attempts since making 6 of 31 against Texas A&M in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• Miami made 13 threes.
• Miami scored 30 points off 14 Tar Heel turnovers. It was the most since Texas scored 31 off turnovers in Las Vegas on 11/22/2018.
• The Hurricanes committed four turnovers, fewest since Virginia had four in the 2018 ACC championship game.
• Isaiah Wong led Miami with 25 points, Kameron McGusty had 20 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and four steals and Sam Waardenburg scored 17 of his 21 points in the first half.
• Armando Bacot was the only Tar Heel to score in double figures with 15.

STATISTICAL RANKINGS
• Carolina leads the ACC in rebounding (39.6) and is second in rebound margin (+5.1), third in scoring (79.0 ppg) and sixth in scoring margin (+6.2).
• Last season, UNC was No. 1 in the ACC and No. 3 in the country in rebound margin (plus 8.5). This season, UNC is No. 2 in the conference and 33rd nationally.
• The Tar Heels are 11th in the country in rebounds per game.
• The Tar Heels are 10th in the ACC in field goal percentage and seventh in FG defense.
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in three-pointers per game (6.9), 14th in three-point shooting (.314) and seventh in three-point percentage defense (.335).
• Carolina's three-point percentage (.314) is 307th in the country and the second-lowest in school history (.304 in 2019-20).
• Carolina and NC State are the only teams with multiple players in the top 10 in the ACC in scoring, and the Tar Heels are the only team with three in the top dozen. Armando Bacot is third (career-high 17.6), Caleb Love is sixth (career-high 16.8) and RJ Davis is tied for 12th (career-high 15.8).
• Bacot is the only player in the ACC in the top 10 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
• Bacot's 23 rebounds vs. James Madison in November equal the third most in a game this season in the NCAA. Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe had 24 vs. Georgia and Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis had 24 vs. Northwestern.
• Davis leads the ACC in free throw shooting at 86.8%. That is on pace to be the seventh-highest in UNC single-season history. The last Tar Heel to lead the ACC in free throw shooting was Joel Berry II (.893 in 2017-18).
• Davis's 14 for 14 from the line against NC State equals the fourth best in a game this season in the NCAA.

KENPOM NOTES
• The Tar Heels are 32nd in the nation in offensive efficiency (114.4 points per 100 possessions) and 46th in defensive efficiency (97.9).
• Carolina and Virginia are the only ACC teams in the top 50 in both offensive and defensive efficiency.
• Carolina is fifth in the ACC in offensive efficiency behind Miami, which is ninth nationally, Virginia (25th), Virginia Tech (26th) and Wake Forest (31st).
• The Tar Heels have committed the 14th-fewest turnovers per possession, but are 331st in the nation in forcing turnovers.
• The Tar Heels are 117th in two-point field goal percentage and 303rd in three-point percentage.
• Armando Bacot is 16th in the country in offensive rebound percentage, but as a team the Tar Heels are 135th. Bacot has 106 offensive rebounds, 66 more than Leaky Black, who is second with 40. Puff Johnson is third with 20.
• Bacot has 38.3% of Carolina's offensive rebounds. Last season he grabbed 36% of UNC's offensive boards.
• Bacot averages 5.6 offensive rebounds per 40 minutes. Johnson is second on the team with 2.6 per 40.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS (WINS & LOSSES)
• Carolina is averaging 82.5 points in its 16 wins and 71.2 (10.7 fewer) in the nine losses.
• The opponents are scoring 76.8 points in their nine wins and 69.6 in UNC's victories. Wake Forest was just the third team to score 80 or more points when defeating the Tar Heels this season.
• Carolina is shooting 47.0% from the floor in the wins and 39.7% in its losses.
• The Tar Heels make 7.8 threes at 34.7% in the wins, but 5.4 threes at 25.3% in the losses.
• Carolina is averaging almost one more three-pointer per game than the opponents in its 16 wins and 1.5 fewer per game in the losses.
• Carolina's best three-point percentage in a loss this season was 33.3% at Virginia (8 for 24).
• UNC is 34 for 135 (25.2%) from three-point range in its six ACC losses.
• Carolina is 7-0 this season when shooting 35% or higher from three-point range with wins over Portland, The Citadel, Michigan, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Syracuse and Clemson.
• The Tar Heels are 9-9 when shooting under 35% from three.
• Carolina has a rebounding edge of 7.0 per game in the wins and 1.7 in the losses.
• The Tar Heels are a combined plus 58 in assists/turnovers in the wins and minus 15 in the losses.
• The opponents are a combined plus 27 assist/turnovers in UNC's losses and have 16 more turnovers than assists in Carolina's wins.
• UNC has outscored the opponents, 250-181, in points off turnovers in the Tar Heels' 16 wins, including 24-10 vs. Charleston, 27-12 vs. Ohio State, 32-8 vs. Wake Forest, 23-8 at Louisville and 20-14 at Syracuse.
• The opponents have outscored the Tar Heels, 123-77, in points off turnovers in the losses. That includes a 15-point advantage by Iowa State, a seven-point edge by Alabama, a 17-4 advantage at Indiana, a 12-6 margin at Pittsburgh and 19-10 advantage by Virginia.
• Carolina is 9-2 in games when it has scored more points off turnovers than its opponents.
• The Tar Heels are 5-6 when the opponents score more points off turnovers (and 2-1 when even).
• The opponents have scored at least 40 paint points four times in the UNC losses, including 40 by Alabama, 50 by Indiana, 42 by Virginia Tech and 42 at Pittsburgh.
• Carolina is 10-4 when it scores more paint points and 5-5 when the opponents have more.
• Carolina is 6-2 this season when holding the opponents to fewer than 30 paint points (only losses to Iowa State and to Pittsburgh in Chapel Hill).
• Carolina has scored 80 or more points 13 times. The Tar Heels are 11-2 in those games, losing 103-101 in four overtimes vs. Alabama (scored 77 in the regulation) and 92-85 at Wake Forest.
• The Tar Heels have averaged 65.0 points in the other seven losses with a high of 74 at Pittsburgh.
• Bacot is averaging 19.3 points in the wins and 14.1 in the losses. However, Bacot only played 1:18 in the loss at Virginia and did not play at Virginia Tech (he is averaging 16.1 in the other six losses).
• Caleb Love is shooting 40.8% from the floor, including 30.9% from three, and has 53 assists/35 turnovers in the wins; in the losses, Love is shooting 35.9% from the floor (31.9% from three) and has 21 assists/22 turnovers in the losses.
• RJ Davis is averaging 16.6 points, is shooting 47.2% from the floor (42.2% from three) and has 60 assists/29 turnovers in the wins; in the losses, he is averaging 14.4 points, is shooting 35.7% from the floor (20.5% from three) and has 25 assists/21 turnovers.
• Pete Nance is shooting 45% from the floor (37.8% from three) in the wins and 40.5% from the floor (18.8% from three) in the losses. Nance is 33 for 39 (.846) from the free throw line in the wins and 16 for 24 in the losses (.667).

MISCELLANEOUS
• KenPom ranks Carolina's strength of schedule 32nd overall and 17th in non-conference play when the Tar Heels went 8-3.
• Carolina's nine losses are against teams with a combined record of 142-56 (.717) through 2/12/23 (Alabama 22-3, Virginia 19-4, Pittsburgh 18-7, Indiana 18-7, Duke 17-8, Iowa State 16-8, Wake Forest 17-9 and Virginia Tech 15-10).
• Armando Bacot (19), RJ Davis (17) and Caleb Love (23) combined to score 59 points in Carolina's 91-71 win over Clemson. That was the sixth-most points the trio has combined to score this season and the second-most in an ACC game. They combined for 73 in the four-overtime loss to Alabama (15 of their 73 came in the 20 minutes of extra time). The Tar Heels are 5-0 the other five times Bacot, Davis and Love have combined for 59 or more points – 71 in an OT win over Ohio State, 69 vs. Michigan, 65 vs. NC State, 64 vs. Charleston and 59 vs. Clemson.
• Love made 7 of 12 field goals vs. Clemson (6 of 9 from three). The Tar Heels are 5-1 this season and 16-3 in his career when Love shoots 50% or higher from the floor. Carolina is just 7-7 this season and 32-24 in his career when he makes under 40% of his field goal attempts.
• Love also had four assists and only one turnover in the win over Clemson, which came into the game on Saturday tied for the lead in the ACC. The Tar Heels are 10-2 this season and 38-12 in three seasons when Love has more assists than turnovers.
• Bacot leads Carolina in scoring (career-high 17.6 ppg), rebounding (11.3 rpg), offensive rebounding (career-high 4.4), blocks (25) and field goal percentage (.564). Last season, he became the first Tar Heel ever to lead UNC in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocked shots in consecutive seasons, and he is on pace to accomplish that again this season.
• Carolina is 12-2 this season and 33-9 in his career when Bacot attempts more than six free throws in a game. The Tar Heels are 4-6 this season and 43-39 over the last four seasons when he attempts six or fewer.
• RJ Davis went 4 for 10 from three-point range vs. Clemson. The Tar Heels are 10-2 this season when Davis makes two or more threes and 6-7 when he makes fewer than two.
• Bacot and Davis lead the Tar Heels in plus/minus at plus 167 and plus 166, respectively.
• Bacot has led UNC in plus/minus eight times. Pete Nance is second with four.
• Puff Johnson led UNC in plus/minus at Wake Forest at plus 4. It was the second time this season (Alabama) he came off the bench and led UNC in plus/minus. Non-starters have led UNC six times, including Johnson twice, Tyler Nickel at Virginia Tech, Seth Trimble vs. Wake Forest, Jalen Washington at Virginia and D'Marco Dunn at Louisville.
• Johnson leads the non-starters in plus/minus at plus 55. Dunn is next at plus 50. Johnson has an even or positive plus/minus in each of his last nine games.
• Dunn came off the bench at Louisville to tie for the team lead in scoring with a career-high 14 points. He also set career highs that day in minutes (25:56), points, field goals (5), three-pointers (2), offensive rebounds (2), rebounds (5), steals (2) and plus/minus (+25) and tied his career highs in free throws (2), assists (1), turnovers (1) and blocks (1)
• Carolina's bench has outscored the opponents six times this season (16-12 in the loss at Virginia Tech, 42-18 vs. The Citadel, 10-9 in the loss at Pittsburgh, 22-12 vs. Notre Dame, 26-10 at Louisville and 25-22 vs. Clemson).
• The opponents are averaging 5.1 more bench points per game. The UNC bench combined for 25 points vs. Clemson, which was its highest point production since it scored 26 at Louisville on January 14.
• The 25 bench points vs. the Tigers were the third most in a game this season (42 vs. The Citadel and 26 at Louisville).
• Freshman Tyler Nickel's 16 points vs. The Citadel were his season high and the most by a Tar Heel non-starter this season. They were the most by a Tar Heel non-starter (in a non-Senior Day game) since Johnson had 16 in the win at NC State last February.

RECORD BOOK UPDATES
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 81 1,000-point scorers, including Caleb Love, Armando Bacot and RJ Davis, who scored his 1,000th point against Wake Forest on 1/4/23.
• Bacot passed Rick Fox, Billy Cunningham, Brice Johnson and Rashad McCants for 17th in scoring at UNC with 1,722 points.
• Bacot needs 26 points to pass George Lynch for 16th place.
• RJ Davis scored 27 points against Wake Forest on January 4 to pass the 1,000-point mark in his 83rd game, the 38th-fewest games needed by a Tar Heel to score 1,000 points (standout UNC guards Raymond Felton and Ty Lawson both scored their 1,000th points in their 84th games).
• Bacot has 10 or more rebounds in a UNC-record 72 games. He passed Billy Cunningham, who had 61 in three seasons from 1962-65.
• Bacot is Carolina's all-time leader in rebounds (1,272) and double-doubles (65), is second in offensive rebounds per game (3.61), second in offensive rebounds (448) and tied for fifth in rebounds per game (10.3). He is one of eight Tar Heels to average a career double-double (13.9/10.3).
• Sean May and Bacot are the only Tar Heels to average career double-doubles in the last 50 years.
• Bacot has 65 double-doubles in 124 games (double-doubles in 52.4% of his games). Only Cunningham (87.0%) recorded double-doubles in a higher percentage of games by a Tar Heel.
• Bacot set UNC single-season records last year with 511 rebounds, 31 double-doubles, five 20-rebound games (tied), 32 games with 10 or more rebounds, rebounds in an NCAA Tournament and rebounds by a Tar Heel in the Elite 8, national semifinal and championship games.
• Bacot became the first player in NCAA Tournament history with six double-doubles in one year and tied the NCAA single-season record for double-doubles with 31 (Navy's David Robinson also had 31 in 1985-86).
• Bacot grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds in UNC's 80-64 win over previously unbeaten James Madison on November 20.
• Bacot is ninth in UNC history in free throw attempts and 10th in free throws made (423 for 637).
• RJ Davis is fifth and Caleb Love is 15th all-time at UNC in free throw percentage.
• Love made at least one three-pointer in a UNC-record 45 consecutive games, a streak that began last season and ended at Louisville on January 14. He broke Marcus Paige's previous mark of 41.
• Last season, Love made 40 consecutive free throws, the second-longest streak in school history (one off the record by Jeff Lebo).
• Love has attempted the sixth-most three-pointers in UNC history (565) and is tied with Melvin Scott with the 12th-most made threes (183).
• Love is one of eight Tar Heels with 1,300 points, 300 assists and 150 three-pointers (also Joel Berry II, Jason Capel, Rick Fox, Justin Jackson, Jeff Lebo, Marcus Paige and Shammond Williams).
• Love is two steals from 100. Berry, Capel, Fox, Lebo and Paige also had 100 steals.
• Leaky Black has played in 147 games in four-plus seasons. He is on pace to break Deon Thompson's school record for games played (152).
• Black is one of two current Tar Heels to start at least 100 career games. Bacot has made 123 starts and Black has 122. Pete Nance has made 97 career starts.

BACOT: SIX-TIME ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Bacot has earned three ACC Player-of-the-Week awards this season.
• Bacot has won ACC Player of the Week six times in his career (all in the last two seasons), which equals Phil Ford for the third most all-time by a Tar Heel.
• Antawn Jamison (ACC-record 12) and Tyler Hansbrough (11) are the only Tar Heels to have won the award more than Bacot.
• Bacot's ACC Player-of-the-Week honors this season were a product of his performances against The Citadel and Ohio State in December, Wake Forest and Notre Dame games in early January and Boston College and NC State games in mid-January.

NOVEMBER SIGNEES
• Carolina signed two players to National Letters of Intent in November 2022.
• Zayden High, a 6-10 forward from San Antonio, Texas. High attends AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Ariz., where he plays for Coach Ed Gipson.
• Simeon Wilcher, a 6-5 guard from Plainfield, N.J. Wilcher plays for Coach Dave Boff at Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, N.J.