Men's Basketball To Face Virginia For Trip To ACC Semis

Thursday, March 9

Greensboro, N.C.

7 PM

North Carolina

Virginia (Quarterfinal)

Photo by: Maggie Hobson

March 9, 2023 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 33: ACC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINAL
• Carolina (20-12), the No. 7 seed in the 2023 ACC Tournament, plays No. 2 seed and 13th-ranked Virginia (23-6) in the quarterfinals Thursday at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
• The Tar Heels advanced to the quarterfinals with an 85-61 win over No. 10-seed Boston College Wednesday evening.
• Caleb Love led four Tar Heels in double figures with 22 points.
• Carolina shot 54.8% from the floor, its second-highest percentage of the season and best since the second game on November 11 vs. Charleston.
• The Tar Heels made 10 of 24 three-pointers (.417) to improve to 10-0 this season when shooting 35% or higher from three-point range.
• Carolina tied its season low with only seven turnovers and out-scored the Eagles, 16-7, in points off turnovers.
• The second round win was Carolina's 20th of the season, the 63rd time the Tar Heels have won 20 or more games in a season.
• Hubert Davis is the third individual to win 20 or more games in his first two seasons as Carolina's head coach with Ben Carnevale (1945-46) and Bill Guthridge (1998-99).
• Armando Bacot played limited minutes vs. BC (17:54) as a result of spraining his left ankle in the first half. He finished with 10 points, six rebounds and three assists.
• Bacot passed 1,800 career points. He is 14th at UNC in scoring with 1,805 points. Joel Berry II is 13th with 1,813.
• Bacot joined College Basketball Hall of Famer Sam Perkins as the only Tar Heels with 1,800 points, 1,000 rebounds and 150 blocks.

NEXT UP, VIRGINIA
• The Tar Heels and Cavaliers split two games in the regular season with each team winning on its home court.
• Virginia beat Carolina in Charlottesville, 65-58, on January 7. Bacot played only 78 seconds in that game after spraining his left ankle and Pete Nance did not play due to a back strain.
• The Tar Heels made nine three-pointers and shot 57.7% from the floor in the first half to defeat the sixth-ranked Cavaliers, 71-63, in Chapel Hill 12 days ago.
• Carolina and Virginia are facing each other in the ACC Tournament for the second straight season and the fifth time in the last nine years.
• The Tar Heels defeated the Cavaliers, 63-43, in Brooklyn last year in the quarterfinals.
• Overall, Carolina is 14-4 in the ACC Tournament against Virginia, including 3-1 against Tony Bennett-coached teams.
• Carolina is 134-61 all-time against the Cavaliers, including 8-1 in Greensboro and 22-14 at all neutral sites.

January 7 in Charlottesville
Virginia 65, UNC 58
• Virginia beat Carolina in Charlottesville for the eighth straight time, overcoming a 29-27 UNC halftime lead and a six-point Tar Heel advantage early in the second half.
• After UNC built a 37-31 lead with 15 minutes to play, the Cavaliers scored 11 straight points and went on a 21-5 run to take a 10-point lead.
• Three-pointers by Caleb Love pulled Carolina within three points twice in the final 2:48, but an Isaac McKneely three and a driving layup by Reece Beekman thwarted the Tar Heel comeback.
• Armando Bacot sprained his left ankle while grabbing an offensive rebound and left the game without returning just 1:18 into the game. He did not score and had two rebounds.
• Freshman Jalen Washington played 27 minutes (had previously played 19 all season) and scored a season-high 13 points and had six rebounds. He scored 12 of UNC's 29 first-half points.
• Carolina had more turnovers (13) than assists (9) for the first time in eight games. It was UNC's fifth straight loss when it had more turnovers than assists.
• RJ Davis led three Tar Heels in double figures with 16 points but had only one assist and four turnovers.
• Justin McKoy returned to John Paul Jones Arena for the first time since playing for the Cavaliers from 2019-21 and matched his career high with six rebounds in 15 minutes.
• Carolina had a 24-15 lead and led, 29-27, at the half despite three starters – Bacot, Leaky Black and Love – scoring just five combined points.
• The Tar Heels had eight assists on 12 field goals in the first half (.667) but only one on nine field goals in the second (.111).
• Carolina was only 8 for 12 from the free throw line.
• The Tar Heels shot 39.6% from the floor, their first time under 40% since the loss at Indiana.
• Carolina held Virginia to 37.5% shooting from the floor in the first half, but the Cavaliers shot 53.6% in the second half.
• Virginia out-scored the Tar Heels in all five specialty stats, including 19-10 in points off turnovers, 32-20 in paint points and 10-2 on fastbreaks.
• Ben Vander Plas scored 14 of Virginia's team-high 17 points in the second half.
• Reece Beekman had 13 points, five assists and five steals.
• The Cavaliers blocked eight shots, which equaled the most by an opponent in the last two seasons.

February 25 in Chapel Hill
UNC 71, Virginia 63
• Carolina defeated a top-10 (AP) opponent at home for the first time since a 79-70 win over No. 4 Duke on 3/9/2019. Virginia came into the game No. 6 in the AP poll.
• It was the fourth win over a top-10 opponent in Hubert Davis's two seasons as head coach (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke last season).
• One game after shooting 18.5% from the floor in the first half at Notre Dame, Carolina shot 57.7% from the floor in the first half, its highest first-half percentage of the season (previous was .533 vs. Portland).
• Carolina made nine three-pointers in the first half.
• Carolina had made 14 for 75 from three since the Clemson game on February 11, then hit 9 of 16 in the opening half vs. the Cavaliers.
• Carolina held the Cavaliers to 39.7% from the floor, just the fifth time this season Virginia shot under 40%.
• Virginia scored more points off turnovers (8-0), more points in the paint (20), more second-chance points (4) and more fastbreak points (2-0).
• Carolina's 20 paint points were its fewest since the Tar Heels scored 20 at Virginia.
• Carolina's four second-chance points also equaled the second fewest this season.
• Carolina scored more bench points (8-5, all eight by Puff Johnson) for just the eighth time this season and fifth time in a victory.
• The Tar Heels outscored Virginia, 30-12, on three-pointers, and 17-5 from the free throw line.
• It was the first time UNC did not score a point off a turnover since a 2/6/2016 loss at Notre Dame.
• It was the first time UNC did not score a fastbreak point since an overtime win at Louisville on 2/1/22.
• Carolina never trailed in the game and led for 37:58.
• Carolina led by 16 at the half, Virginia's largest halftime deficit of the season.
• It was UNC's largest halftime lead since November 20, when the Tar Heels led James Madison by 19 (45-26).
• Pete Nance scored 22 points, made all four of his three-pointers and all four of his free throws, and blocked a season-high four shots. It was the fifth time Nance led UNC in scoring.
• Nance became the third Tar Heel ever to hit four 3FGs and block four shots in a game (Danny Green vs. Valparaiso on 12/30/2007 and David Noel vs. George Mason in the NCAA second round on 3/19/2006).
• Nance made all four of his threes in the first half, his most since he made five vs. Portland on Thanksgiving.
• Davis scored 16 points and led UNC with 10 rebounds, his third double-double this season.
• Black blocked a career-high four shots.
• It was the sixth time UNC scored 70 or more points vs. Virginia since Tony Bennett became the Cavaliers' head coach in 2009-10. The Tar Heels are 5-1 in those six games.

2ND ROUND WIN OVER BOSTON COLLEGE
UNC 85, Boston College 71
• Carolina scored 85 points, most since beating Clemson, 91-71, on February 11.
• The Tar Heels improved to 12-2 this season when scoring 80 or more.
• Carolina led by as many as 27 points (58-31), its largest lead in any game this season vs. an ACC opponent (previous was 25 vs. Clemson). It was the second-largest lead of the season (36 vs. The Citadel).
• Carolina shot 54.8% from the floor, its fifth time this season shooting 50% or better and the first time since shooting 51.7% vs. Wake Forest on January 4.
• Carolina improved to 5-0 this season when shooting 50% from the floor.
• UNC shot its best field goal percentage since shooting 60.3% from Charleston in the second game of the season on November 11.
• UNC shot 50.0% from the floor in the first half and 60.0% in the second. It was the second time this season and first time since Portland that UNC made 50% in both halves.
• Carolina's second-half percentage was its best since shooting 60.0% in the second vs. Wake Forest on January 4.
• It was the fifth straight game and 13th time in the last 17 games UNC held its opponent under 70 points.
• Carolina scored 23 bench points, most since scoring 25 vs. Clemson on February 11.
• UNC's bench had totaled 27 in the six games since the Clemson game.
• UNC made 10 threes, the seventh time this season UNC made 10 or more (UNC 7-0).
• UNC made 10 of 24 threes for 41.7%. UNC improved to 10-0 when it makes 35% or higher from three.
• Carolina tied its season low for turnovers with seven. Carolina is 3-1 in those four games (wins over NC State, Clemson and BC and a loss at Duke).
• Caleb Love led UNC with 22 points. UNC is 6-5 this season and 21-5 in the last three seasons when Love scores 20 or more.
• Love made three three-pointers. He passed Hubert Davis for eighth in UNC history with 198 career three-point field goals.
• Love passed Shammond Williams and Jason Capel for 36th in UNC scoring with 1,465 points.
• RJ Davis made four three-pointers. UNC improved to 5-0 this season when he makes four or more threes.
• Davis passed Bobby Jones, Vince Carter and Garrison Brooks for 52nd in UNC scoring with 1,280 points.
• Pete Nance tied his season high with four blocks (also February 25 vs. Virginia).
• Armando Bacot played less than half the game (17:54) as a result of spraining his left ankle in the first half. He finished with 10 points, six rebounds and three assists.
• D'Marco Dunn made two threes and scored eight points. It was the first time he made two threes since Louisville on January 14. He had totaled seven points in his last 11 games.
• Leaky Black had a season-high four assists. UNC is 34-5 over the last three seasons when he has three or more assists.
• The Tar Heels have won four in a row and 16 of the last 17 vs. Boston College.

UNC IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• Carolina has won 18 ACC Tournament championships, most recently in 2016 in Washington, D.C.
• UNC is 106-50 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 (106) and winning percentage (.679).
• The Tar Heels are 48-13 in the quarterfinals, four wins more than any other school has in league history.
• This is Carolina's third time as a No. 7 seed. The Tar Heels are 2-2 as the seventh seed.
• Carolina is 12-7 all-time against No. 2 seeds. This is the first time UNC has played a No. 2 seed since losing to Florida State in the 2021 semifinals.

UNC IN GREENSBORO
• Carolina is 128-39 in the city of Greensboro, including 120-35 in the Greensboro Coliseum.
• That includes a 32-13 record in the Coliseum since 1995 after the building was renovated in the early 1990s.
• Carolina is 43-20 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.

NATIONAL SCENE
• Carolina was 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 times this season, most recently in the December 26 poll.
• The Tar Heels have been unranked the last 10 weeks.
• As of March 9, the Tar Heels are 30th in Sagarin, 35th in ESPN's Basketball Power Index, 42nd in KenPom, 44th in KPI, 44th in the NET and 50th in ESPN's Strength of Record.
• Carolina went 8-3 against non-ACC opponents. The NET ranks the Tar Heels' non-conference schedule the 18th 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 in the regular season and six of the bottom-seven teams in the ACC just once.
• Carolina's 12 losses are against teams with a combined record of 217-93 (.700) through March 8 (Alabama 26-5, Miami 24-6, Virginia 23-6, Duke 23-8, NC State 23-9, Pittsburgh 22-10, Indiana 21-10, Wake Forest 19-13, Iowa State 18-12, Virginia Tech 18-14).
• Those 10 teams have an average of 21.7 wins this season.
• Carolina's opponents' average NET is the 34th 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 20 games, and fewer than 70 in 18 games overall and 13 of its last 17 games.

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 (10.7 per game), offensive rebounding (4.3 per game) and double-doubles (19) and is fifth in field goal percentage (.555) and eighth in scoring (16.3 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 rebounds 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 (6.4 rpg), leads the team with 41 steals and has 26 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 18 of 32 games, including each of the last five.
• 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.

MISCELLANEOUS
• The Tar Heels are ninth in the country in rebounds per game (39.7) and 25th in rebound margin (plus 5.4).
• Carolina leads the ACC in free throws made (16.7) and attempted (22.5) per game.
• The Tar Heels are 14th in the country in free throws made and 18th in attempts.
• Armando Bacot is third in the country in offensive rebounds per game (4.3), fourth in double-doubles (19) and is seventh in rebounding (10.7).
• Bacot leads the ACC in rebounding, offensive rebounding and double-doubles, fifth in field goal percentage and eighth in scoring. He is the only player in the top 10 in the ACC in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
• Bacot joined Sam Perkins as the only Tar Heels with 1,800 career points, 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 8-7 this season and 47-40 over the last four seasons when he attempts six or fewer.
• 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 21st 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 has made 34 of 75 (.453) three-pointers in its last three wins over Virginia, Florida State and Boston College. That included a combined 27 for 47 (.574) in the first halves and 7 of 28 (.250) 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 (.312) is 317th in the country and is the second lowest in school history.
• Carolina makes 7.1 threes per game, while the opponents make 6.5 per game.
• Carolina is 10-0 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, Florida State and Boston College.
• That includes seven 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, .421 at home vs. Notre Dame and .417 vs. Boston College in the ACC Tournament).
• The Tar Heels are 10-12 when shooting under 35% from three.
• Carolina had 16 assists on 34 field goals in its win over Boston College. Overall, the Tar Heels are averaging 12.1 assists game, their 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 scored 23 against Boston College Wednesday. The bench had totaled 27 points in the previous 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 80.8 points in its 20 wins and 69.9 (10.7 fewer) in the 12 losses.
• The opponents are scoring 75.8 points in their 12 wins and 68.1 in UNC's victories.
• Carolina is shooting 46.5% from the floor in the wins and 39.0% in its losses.
• The Tar Heels make 8.0 threes at 35.2% 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 67 in assists/turnovers in the wins and minus 25 in the losses.
• UNC averages 13.8 assists in its wins and 9.2 in the losses.
• UNC has outscored the opponents, 286-218, in points off turnovers in its 20 wins, including 24-10 vs. Charleston, 27-12 vs. Ohio State, 32-8 vs. Wake Forest, 23-8 at Louisville, 20-14 at Syracuse and 16-7 vs. Boston College in Greensboro.
• 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 11-2 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 12-5 when it scores more paint points and 7-7 when the opponents have more.
• Carolina is 9-2 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 14 times. The Tar Heels are 12-2 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 17.4 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 40.3% from the floor, including 30.9% from three, and has 61 assists/48 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 16.6 points, shooting 48.4% from the floor (42.3% from three) and has 72 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 45.3% from the floor (41.4% from three) in the wins and 38.6% from the floor (20% from three) in the losses. Nance is 50 for 58 (.862) 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 130 starts, Black has 129 and Pete Nance, who played four seasons at Northwestern, has made 104.
• Junior guards RJ Davis and Caleb Love both played in their 100th career games in the second round win over Boston College.
• 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 133 offensive rebounds in 31 games this season and is on pace to set the single-season UNC record for offensive rebounds per game (4.29), which also equals 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 is 13th in UNC scoring with 1,805 points, having passed Michael Jordan on March 4. 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 (1,332), double-doubles (68) and offensive rebounds per game (3.63), is second in offensive rebounds (475) 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 131 games (double-doubles in 51.9% 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 (448 for 676).
• 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 58 of the last 60 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 620 three-pointers, third most by a Tar Heel, and is eighth in made threes with 198. He passed Hubert Davis for eighth when he made three against Boston College. Jeff Lebo is seventh with 211.
• Love has made a three in 85 of 100 games.
• Love is one of four Tar Heels with 1,400 points, 300 assists, 175 three-pointers and 100 steals with Joel Berry II, Lebo and Marcus Paige.

BACOT: SIX-TIME ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Bacot 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.