Men's Basketball To Meet BC In ACC Tournament Wednesday

GAME 32: ACC TOURNAMENT SECOND ROUND
• Carolina enters the 2023 ACC Tournament as the No. 7 seed with a 19-12 overall record, 11-9 in league play.
• The Tar Heels open tournament play vs. No. 10 seed Boston College in the second round on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 p.m. in the Greensboro Coliseum. The Eagles defeated Louisville, 80-62, Tuesday in the first round.
• Carolina defeated Boston College, 72-64, in Chapel Hill on January 17 in the only meeting between the two teams this season (see details on that game on the next page).
• Should Carolina advance to the quarterfinals, the Tar Heels would play No. 2 seed Virginia on Thursday at 7 p.m.

UNC IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• Carolina has won 18 ACC Tournament championships, most recently in 2016 in Washington, D.C.
• UNC is 105-50 in the ACC Tournament.
• The Tar Heels rank first in championship game appearances (35), No. 1 seeds (26), top-two seeds (40) and top-three seeds (50), second in titles (18), wins (105) and winning percentage (.677).
• The Tar Heels are 3-1 in the second round. That includes a 101-59 win over Notre Dame in Greensboro in 2021, UNC's previous appearance in the second round.
• This is Carolina third time as a No. 7 seed. The Tar Heels are 1-2 as the seventh seed.
• In 2002, UNC lost to No. 2 Duke. The following season No. 7 Carolina upset No. 2 Maryland, 84-72, in the quarterfinals and lost to No. Duke, in the semifinals.

UNC IN GREENSBORO
• Carolina is 127-39 in the city of Greensboro, including 119-35 in the Greensboro Coliseum.
• That includes a 31-13 record in the Coliseum since 1995 after the building was renovated in the early 1990s.
• The Tar Heels last played in the Greensboro Coliseum in the 2021 ACC Tournament, when they defeated Notre Dame and Virginia Tech and lost in the semifinals to Florida State.
• The quarterfinal win over the Hokies in 2021 was the 903rd and final win in Roy Williams' head coaching career.
• Carolina is 42-20 in Greensboro in the ACC Tournament.
• The Tar Heels have won eight ACC Tournament titles in Greensboro, including 1967, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1997 and 1998.

UNC-BOSTON COLLEGE ALL-TIME
• Carolina is 21-6 all-time vs. the Eagles, including 19-5 since BC joined the ACC for the 2005-06 season.
• The Tar Heels have won three straight and 15 of the last 16 games vs. the Eagles, including 72-64 in Chapel Hill on January 17.
• Carolina is 2-1 vs. the Eagles in the ACC Tournament. The Tar Heels lost to BC in the semifinals in Greensboro in 2006 and beat the Eagles in St. Petersburg in the semifinals in 2007 and the second round in Greensboro in 2015.
• Carolina is 4-2 vs. BC at neutral sites, including 1-1 in the Greensboro Coliseum.
• Carolina is 19-7 all-time vs. Louisville, including an 80-59 win at the KFC Yum! Center on January 14.
• The Tar Heels have won four straight games vs. the Cardinals.
• UNC is 10-1 vs. Louisville at neutral sites, including a 70-60 win in Greensboro in the 2015 ACC quarterfinals.
• Carolina has won both of the previous games in the ACC Tournament. UNC also beat the Cardinals, 83-70, in the 2019 quarterfinals in Charlotte.

EARLIER THIS SEASON
Carolina 72, Boston College 64
January 17 in Chapel Hill
• Armando Bacot had game highs in points (20), rebounds (16), assists (tied, 3) and blocks (tied, 1).
• It was the second straight game Bacot had a double-double in the first half.
• Carolina did not allow a three-point field goal for the first time in 33 seasons (Boston College was 0 for 6 from three). The last opponent to not make a three was Jacksonville on 11/27/1990. The opponents had made a three in 1,149 straight games since the Jacksonville game.
• Carolina attempted 23 more three-pointers than the Eagles (UNC made 10 of 29). The 23 attempts equaled the largest margin ever in a game by the Tar Heels. On 12/30/1986 UNC went 9 for 30, while SMU was 0 for 7.
• RJ Davis was 4 for 7 from three-point range and had 18 points.
• Leaky Black tied his career high with four steals.
• Pete Nance played for the first time since a brief stint vs. Wake Forest on January 4. He made two three-pointers and had three offensive rebounds.
• Caleb Love made two three-pointers, the biggest of which came with 5:21 to play to stop an 8-0 BC run and give Carolina a 59-55 lead.
• The Eagles shot 57.1% from the floor in the second half, trailing only NC State's 64.5% in Raleigh among second-half shooting accuracy by an opponent this season.

2023 ACC AWARDS
• Armando Bacot became the 19th Tar Heel to earn multiple first-team All-ACC honors and Leaky Black was selected to the All-Defensive team.
• Bacot was the second-leading vote-getter on the All-ACC team and received the third-most votes for ACC Player of the Year. He was also a first-team All-ACC choice and was second in player-of-the-year voting in 2021-22.
• Bacot leads the ACC in rebounding (10.8 per game), offensive rebounding (4.3 per game) and double-doubles (19) and is fifth in field goal percentage (.552) and seventh in scoring (16.5 per game). He broke the UNC career records for rebounds and double-doubles earlier this season and is on pace to break the single-season school record for offensive re-bounds per game, a standard he set as a junior.
• Bacot was joined on the All-ACC first team by Miami's Isaiah Wong, Wake Forest's Tyree Appleby, Clemson's Hunter Tyson and Pittsburgh's Jamarius Burton.
• Bacot is the first Tar Heel to repeat as a first-team All-ACC selection since Tyler Hansbrough, the ACC's first and only four-time first teamer (2006-07-08-09). Bacot joins a list of Tar Heels who earned multiple first-team selections that includes Hansbrough, three-time honorees Lennie Rosenbluth, York Larese, Billy Cunningham, Charlie Scott, Phil Ford, Sam Perkins and Antawn Jamison and two-time selections Tommy Kearns, Doug Moe, Bobby Lewis, Larry Miller, Dennis Wuycik, Mitch Kupchak, Mike O'Koren, Al Wood, Michael Jordan and Brad Daugherty.
• Bacot received 324 of a possible 375 points from the 75 voters in the all-conference team balloting, the second-highest point total behind Wong, who accumulated 337 points.
• For player of the year, Wong received 30 votes, Appleby got 23 and Bacot was third with nine. Eight different players received votes for player of the year.
• Bacot was named a 2023 third-team All-America by the Sporting News and College Hoops Today's Jon Rothstein. The Richmond, Va., native is one of 15 players (the only ACC player) on the late-season watch list for the Oscar Robertson (USBWA) National Player-of-the-Year Trophy, one of 15 players on the final ballot for the Wooden Award, a finalist for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award and a late-season candidate for Naismith Trophy.
• Black is the third Tar Heel to earn two All-Defensive team honors with Jackie Manuel (2004-05) and John Henson (2011-12). The Concord, N.C., native played in his UNC-record 153rd career game Saturday vs. Duke and is averaging career highs this season in scoring (7.4 ppg) and rebounding (6.5 rpg), leads the team with 40 steals and has 25 blocked shots.
• Black has held some of the country's top offensive players to below their scoring averages, including Alabama's Brandon Miller (who was 4 for 21 from the floor), Tyson (three points) and NC State's Terquavion Smith (10 for 30 from the floor in two games against Carolina).
• Black anchors a UNC defense that has held opponents to fewer than 70 points in 17 of 31 games, including each of the last four.
• Black was second in the voting for ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Virginia's Reece Beekman won the award with 29 of 75 votes, while Black was second with 18 votes. Black was one of eight players to receive votes for defensive player of the year.
• Junior guards RJ Davis and Caleb Love were named honorable mention All-ACC. It was Love's second straight year earning honorable mention.

NATIONAL SCENE
• Carolina is unranked in the March 6 Associated Press poll. The Tar Heels were ranked No. 1 in the preseason and for a total of three weeks and were ranked in the top 25 two other weeks this season, most recently in the December 26 poll.
• The Tar Heels have been unranked the last 10 weeks.
• As of March 7, the Tar Heels are 37th in Sagarin, 39th in ESPN's Basketball Power Index, 47th in KPI, 48th in KenPom, 49th in the NET and 51st in ESPN's Strength of Record.
• Carolina went 8-3 against non-ACC opponents. The NET ranks the Tar Heels' non-conference schedule the 19th most difficult in the country.
• Alabama, Gonzaga and Kansas are the only major schools that have a higher-rated non-conference strength of schedule.
• Carolina has wins over six teams that have won 20 or more games – Charleston (which leads the nation with 28 wins), NC State, UNCW, Virginia, Clemson and James Madison.
• UNC played five of the other top-seven teams in the ACC twice and six of the bottom-seven teams in the ACC just once.
• Carolina's 12 losses are against teams with a combined record of 214-92 (.699) through March 6 (Alabama 26-5, Miami 24-6, Virginia 23-6, Duke 23-8, NC State 22-9, Pittsburgh 21-10, Indiana 21-10, Wake Forest 18-13, Iowa State 18-12, Virginia Tech 18-13).
• Those 10 teams have an average of 21.4 wins this season.
• Carolina's opponents' average NET is the 25th highest in the country.
• Every team that has beaten Carolina has a winning record and seven have 20 or more wins.
• Carolina has lost by single digits in 11 of its 12 losses. The Tar Heels' largest margin of defeat was 12 points at Indiana on November 30 in a game when Bacot suffered a shoulder injury early in the game, an injury that caused him to miss the next game, a loss at Virginia Tech four days later. Bacot also played 78 seconds due to injury in the loss at Virginia on January 10.
• Despite playing a tempo that ranks in the top 25 percent in the country, Carolina has allowed more than 80 points in only one of its last 19 games, and fewer than 70 in 17 games overall and 12 of its last 16 games.

MISCELLANEOUS
• The Tar Heels are seventh in the country in rebounds per game (39.9) and 25th in rebound margin (plus 5.3).
• Carolina leads the ACC in free throws made (17.0) and attempted (22.9) per game.
• The Tar Heels are 12th in the country in free throws made and 16th in attempts.
• 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 88.4%. That is on pace to be the third-highest percentage 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 is 19th in the country in free throw percentage.
• Davis made 14 of 14 from the line at home vs. NC State, which equals the fourth best in a game this season in the NCAA.
• Carolina made 24 of 51 (.471) three-pointers in its last two wins over Virginia and Florida State. That included a combined 20 for 34 (.588) in the first halves and 4 of 17 (.235) in the second.
• Carolina's 11 three-pointers in the first half at Florida State tied the school record for threes in any half (second half at Maryland on 1/10/1990, second half vs. UNC Asheville on 11/300/2008 and first half vs. Maryland on 2/3/2009). It was one of 11 times a UNC team ever made 10 or more in any half.
• Carolina's three-point percentage (.309) is 326th in the country and is the second lowest in school history.
• Carolina makes 7.0 threes per game, while the opponents make 6.5 per game.
• Carolina is 9-0 this season when shooting 35% or higher from three-point range with wins over Portland, The Citadel, Michigan, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Clemson, Virginia and Florida State.
• That includes six games when the Tar Heels won when shooting better than 40% from three (.500 vs. Portland, .484 vs. The Citadel, .483 at Florida State, .455 vs. Clemson, .455 vs. Virginia and .421 at home vs. Notre Dame).
• The Tar Heels are 10-12 when shooting under 35% from three.
• Armando Bacot is third in the country in offensive rebounds per game (4.3) and double-doubles (19) and is tied for sixth in rebounding (10.8).
• Bacot is one of three Tar Heels with 1,700 career points, 1,000 rebounds and 150 blocks with Sam Perkins and Brice Johnson (block totals are unknown for Billy Cunningham). He is five points from 1,800. Only Perkins has scored 1,800 with at least 1,000 rebounds and 150 blocks.
• Carolina is 12-4 this season and 33-11 in his career when Bacot attempts more than six free throws in a game. The Tar Heels are 7-7 this season and 46-40 over the last four seasons when he attempts six or fewer.
• Carolina is averaging 11.9 assists game, its fewest in any season.
• Carolina's bench has outscored the opponents eight times this season. The Tar Heels are 5-3 in those games.
• The opponents are averaging 5.3 more bench points per game. Carolina's non-starters have totaled 27 points in the last six games, since scoring 25 in the win over Clemson.
• 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 Puff Johnson had 16 in the win at NC State in February 2022.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS (WINS & LOSSES)
• Carolina is averaging 80.6 points in its 19 wins and 69.9 (10.7 fewer) in the 12 losses.
• The opponents are scoring 75.8 points in their 12 wins and 68.5 in UNC's victories.
• Carolina is shooting 46.0% from the floor in the wins and 39.0% in its losses.
• The Tar Heels make 7.9 threes at 34.8% in the wins and 5.5 threes at 24.5% in the losses.
• Carolina's best three-point percentage in a loss this season was 33.3% at Virginia (8 for 24).
• UNC is 46 for 187 (24.6%) from three-point range in its eight ACC losses.
• Carolina has a rebounding edge of 7.6 per game in the wins and 1.8 per game in the losses.
• The Tar Heels are a combined plus 58 in assists/turnovers in the wins and minus 25 in the losses.
• UNC averages 13.7 assists in its wins and 9.2 in the losses.
• UNC has outscored the opponents, 270-211, in points off turnovers in its 19 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, 163-95, 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, a 19-10 advantage at Virginia and 16-3 at NC State.
• Carolina is 10-2 in games when it has scored more points off turnovers than its opponents.
• The Tar Heels are 7-9 when the opponents score more points off turnovers.
• The opponents have scored at least 40 paint points five times in the UNC losses, including 40 by Alabama, 50 by Indiana, 42 by Virginia Tech, 42 at Pittsburgh and 42 at NC State (the box score says 46 but the first two field goals were listed incorrectly as paint points).
• Carolina is 11-5 when it scores more paint points and 7-7 when the opponents have more.
• Carolina is 8-2 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.
• Bacot is averaging 17.7 points in the wins and 14.4 in the losses. However, Bacot only played 1:18 in the loss at Virginia (and did not play at Virginia Tech). He is averaging 15.8 in the 10 losses other than Virginia and Virginia Tech.
• Caleb Love is shooting 39.9% from the floor, including 30.5% from three, and has 59 assists/44 turnovers in the wins; in the losses, Love is shooting 35.8% from the floor (29.5% from three) and has 27 assists/30 turnovers).
• RJ Davis is averaging 16.5 points, shooting 47.9% from the floor (40.8% from three) and has 69 assists/35 turnovers in the wins; in the losses, he is averaging 14.8 points, is shooting 36.5% from the floor (24.2% from three) and has 33 assists/24 turnovers.
• Pete Nance is shooting 43.9% from the floor (41.4% from three) in the wins and 38.6% from the floor (20% from three) in the losses. Nance is 48 for 54 (.889) from the free throw line in the wins and 18 for 26 in the losses (.692).

RECORD BOOK UPDATES
LEAKY SETS GAMES PLAYED RECORD
• Graduate student Leaky Black broke the UNC record for games played when he started and played all 40 minutes vs. Duke on March 4, his 153rd game as a Tar Heel. He passed Deon Thompson, who played at Carolina for four seasons from 2006-10.
• Black gained an extra year of eligibility due to the pandemic, but he also missed 13 games as a freshman in 2018-19 with a sprained ankle and played through a broken toe (missing only one game as a result) the following season.
• Black is one of three current Tar Heels to start at least 100 career games. Armando Bacot has made 129 starts, Black has 128 and Pete Nance, who played four seasons at Northwestern, has made 103.
• Armando Bacot, who earlier this season set the all-time UNC records for rebounds and double-doubles, is currently Carolina's all-time leader in offensive rebounds per game (3.63).
• Bacot has 130 offensive rebounds in 30 games this season and is on pace to set the single-season UNC record for offensive rebounds per game (4.33), which is also the fourth-highest single-season average in ACC history.
• Bacot had his 68th career double-double March 4 vs. Duke to pass NC State's Tom Burleson and tie the Wolfpack's Ronnie Shavlik for third in ACC history.
• Hall of Famers Tim Duncan and Ralph Sampson are the only players in ACC history with more double-doubles than Bacot.
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 81 1,000-point scorers, including Caleb Love, Armando Bacot and RJ Davis. Bacot scored his 1,000th point last year in Chapel Hill vs. NC State, Love vs. Portland in November and Davis in January at home vs. Wake Forest.
• Bacot scored 17 points vs. Duke to pass Michael Jordan for 14th in UNC scoring with 1,795 points. Joel Berry II is 13th with 1,813.
• Bacot has 10 or more rebounds in a UNC-record 75 games. Billy Cunningham had 61 in three seasons from 1962-65.
• Bacot is Carolina's all-time leader in rebounds (1,326), double-doubles (68) and offensive rebounds per game (3.63), is second in offensive rebounds (472) and sixth in rebounds per game (10.2). He is one of eight Tar Heels to average a career double-double (13.8/10.2).
• Sean May and Bacot are the only Tar Heels to average career double-doubles in the last 50 years.
• Bacot has 68 double-doubles in 130 games (double-doubles in 52.3% 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 sixth in UNC history in free throw attempts and ninth in makes (444 for 671).
• RJ Davis leads the ACC in free throw shooting this season (88.4%) and is No. 1 in UNC history at 85.0%, just ahead of Shammond Williams (84.8%).
• Caleb 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. Love has made a three in 57 of the last 59 games.
• 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 612 three-pointers, third most by a Tar Heel, and is ninth in made threes with 195. Hubert Davis is eighth with 197.
• Love has made a three in 84 of 99 games.
• Love is one of four Tar Heels with 1,400 points, 300 assists, 175 three-pointers and 100 steals with Joel Berry II, Jeff Lebo and Marcus Paige.

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Players Mentioned

Armando Bacot

Leaky Black

RJ Davis

Puff Johnson

Caleb Love

Pete Nance

Tyler Nickel