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University of North Carolina Athletics
Friday, November 15
Chapel Hill
8 PM
North Carolina
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American
No. 10 Men's Basketball Hosting American Friday
November 14, 2024 | Men's Basketball
• The Tar Heel are 1-1 with a home win over Elon and a 92-89 loss at top-ranked Kansas.
• Carolina trailed by as many as 20 points late in the first half and by 15 at intermission but stormed back to take an 87-83 lead with 3:25 to play in Lawrence. The game was tied at 89 when KU's Hunter Dickinson scored to give the Jayhawks the lead for good, and the Tar Heels missed three 3FG attempts over the final 90 seconds.
• Seth Trimble led UNC with 19 points. He was one of six Tar Heels to score in double figures.
• UNC and American are playing for the first time.
• The Eagles (1-2) are playing the second of six straight games away from home. They lost, 74-66 at Siena on Tuesday.
• This is Carolina's first game vs. a current member of the America East Conference since defeating Vermont in Greensboro in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
• Jackie Manuel, a captain, starter and defensive standout on the Tar Heels' 2005 NCAA championship team is an assistant coach with the Eagles. Manuel later spent two seasons (2021-23) on Hubert Davis' staff.
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER
• This is the 40th season the Tar Heels play their home games in the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center, more commonly known as the Smith Center or the Dean Dome.
• The first game was a 95-92 win over Duke on 1/18/1986.
• UNC is 478-87 (.846) in the Smith Center, including 229-18 (.927) against non-ACC teams.
• Carolina has won its last five games in the Smith Center since a loss to Clemson on 2/6/2024.
• Carolina has won 18 straight non-conference games in the Smith Center since a loss to Marquette on 2/24/2022.
BIG PICTURE
• This is the 115th season of Carolina Basketball.
The Tar Heels have won seven national championships (six NCAA Tournament titles), played in a record 21 Final Fours, won a record 133 NCAA Tournament games, played in the NCAA Tournament 53 times, been a No. 1 seed a record 18 times, won a record 33 regular season ACC titles, won 18 ACC Tournament championships and have had 10 former players inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame.
• The Tar Heels are led by Hubert Davis, in his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater. The 2022 National Coach-of-the-Year winner and the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year has led UNC to a 79-32 record.
• Davis' 78 wins through 2023-24 were the second most by a Carolina head coach and fourth most ever at a Power 4 Conference program after three years as a head coach.
• Carolina is the only major program in the country whose six coaches all played at their alma mater. Davis played for Hall of Famer Dean Smith from 1988-92. Jeff Lebo (1985-89) and Pat Sullivan (1990-95) also played at UNC for Smith, Brad Frederick played for Smith and Bill Guthridge (1996-99) and Sean May (2002-05) and Marcus Paige (2012-16) played for Hall of Famer Roy Williams.
• The Tar Heels went 29-8 last year, winning the program's 33rd regular season ACC title with a 17-3 record and earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA West Regional, where they advanced to the Sweet 16.
• Carolina returns five players, including two starters, from last year, and welcomes 10 newcomers – five freshmen and five transfers.
• The five returnees include unanimous first-team All-America and ACC Player of the Year RJ Davis, All-ACC Freshman honoree Elliot Cadeau, guard Seth Trimble and forwards Jae'Lyn Withers and Jalen Washington.
• Key departures include Armando Bacot, Carolina's all-time leading rebounder and second-leading scorer, Harrison Ingram, a second-round pick by San Antonio and Cormac Ryan, who played 152 college games.
• Bacot, Ingram and Ryan combined to score 46% of UNC's points and grab 76% of the rebounds, while Ingram and Ryan made 140 of the Tar Heels' 301 three-pointers (47%).
VERSUS NO. 1
• With the loss to Kansas on November 8, Carolina is 14-21 all-time against teams ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll.
• The 14 wins are the most wins vs. No. 1 by any program in college basketball history.
• Carolina is 6-8 in true road games vs. No. 1.
• Kansas was the 13th different opponent the Tar Heels have played as No. 1 (Cincinnati, UConn, Duke, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, NC State, Oklahoma, Syracuse, Temple and Virginia).
POLLING
• The Tar Heels are ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press poll.
• UNC was ninth in the AP's preseason poll. This is the 46th season UNC entered the season or was ranked in the top 10 in the first AP poll (in some seasons in the 1950s there were no preseason polls). In the previous 45 instances when UNC began the year in the top 10 in the first AP poll, the Tar Heels also finished the season in the top 10 on 32 occasions.
• Carolina finished the 2023-24 season No. 6 in the coaches' poll and No. 7 in the AP poll.
• Last year was the 39th time Carolina was ranked in the top 10 in the final AP poll (out of 76 seasons), the third most in college basketball history.
• This week's No. 10 ranking by the AP is the 959th time the Tar Heels are ranked, second most all-time.
• This is the 68th season UNC is ranked at least once in the AP poll (in 77 seasons) and the 60th season UNC has been ranked at least once in the top 10.
• UNC was ranked by the AP in all 21 polls last season.
PLAYING THE TOP TEAMS
• Carolina annually plays one of the most difficult schedules, both in and out of conference play, and the preseason polls indicate 2024-25 will be another challenge.
• Since KenPom began in 2001-02, the Tar Heels' strength of schedule was ranked in the top 10 in the nation 13 times and in the top 25 on 20 occasions.
• Carolina's 2024-25 schedule features at least seven games against current top-25 opponents, including No. 1 Kansas (on the road), No. 2 Alabama (home), No. 5 Iowa State or No. 7 Auburn (second day in Maui), No. 6 Duke (home and away), No. 20 Florida (in Charlotte). Third-ranked UConn is also on the other side of the bracket in Maui.
PRESEASON ACCOLADES
• Carolina was picked to finish second and RJ Davis was selected the ACC's preseason player of the year at the conference's media day.
• Davis is a National Player of the Year candidate (Naismith, NABC and Wooden), ranked the No. 2 player in the country (CBS and ESPN) and was tabbed a preseason All-America by numerous media, including the Associated Press, Sporting News, Blue Ribbon Yearbook, Field of 68, CBS, Fox, Sports Illustrated and ESPN's Jay Bilas.
• Davis won the Naismith Hall of Fame's Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year award in 2024. He is on the preseason watch list.
• Sophomore Elliott Cadeau (Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year), freshmen Ian Jackson and Drake Powell (Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year) and junior Cade Tyson (Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year) also are named on the Hall of Fame's preseason positional awards watch lists.
• Davis was the first Tar Heel and second ACC player to win the Jerry West Award.
• Carolina is the only team to win the Cousy Award three times (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012).
RJ DAVIS
• Davis has scored the second-most points ever by a Tar Heel guard (2,128). He trails only 1978 Wooden Award winner Phil Ford, and Davis has scored the fifth most among all players ever to play at Carolina.
• Davis scored 784 points last season, the fourth most in Carolina history and the most since Tyler Hansbrough scored 882 in 2007-08.
• Davis' 784 points were the most in a season in Carolina history by a guard.
• Should Davis score 784 points again this season he would tie Hansbrough for the most points by a Tar Heel and the most in ACC history.
• Davis made 113 3FGs, breaking the UNC single-season record (Justin Jackson made 105 in 2016-17).
• Davis has made 278 career three-pointers, the second most all-time by a Tar Heel. Marcus Paige is first with 299.
• Davis is also Carolina's all-time leader in free throw percentage. He has made 16 of 18 from the line in the first two games this season and has converted 438 of 510 in his career for 85.9%. Shammond Williams is second at 84.8%.
• The Kansas game was the fifth in which Davis attempted 10 or more free throws in a game in his career. He was 9 for 10 vs. Baylor in the 2022 NCAA second round, 14 for 14 vs. NC State in 2023, 10 for 10 vs. Arkansas and 9 for 10 at Virginia last season and 9 for 11 vs. the Jayhawks.
• Davis became the 19th Tar Heel to earn consensus first-team All-America honors. Those 19 players have won consensus first-team All-America honors a total of 28 times.
• Davis joined Lennie Rosenbluth in 1957, Phil Ford in 1978, Michael Jordan in 1983 and 1984, Kenny Smith in 1987, Jerry Stackhouse in 1995, Antawn Jamison in 1998, Joseph Forte in 2001 and Tyler Hansbrough in 2008 and 2009 as the only Tar Heels to make first-team All-America on each of the teams the NCAA recognizes to determine consensus first-team All-America.
DAVIS LED ACC IN SCORING
• Davis led the ACC last year in scoring at 21.2 points per game. He was the first Tar Heel to lead the ACC in scoring since Tyler Hansbrough in 2007-08.
• Davis is the 11th Tar Heel to lead the ACC in scoring (Billy Cunningham did it twice).
• Davis' career scoring average is 15.2, the eighth-highest by a Tar Heel guard. Over the last three seasons, he has averaged 18.9 per game.
• Davis was the 15th Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Year honors, the first since Justin Jackson in 2016-17. It is the 16th time a Tar Heel has won the award (Larry Miller won twice).
• Davis was the fifth Tar Heel guard to win the award with Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Joseph Forte and Ty Lawson.
• Elliot Cadeau made the ACC All-Freshman team. He was the first Tar Heel to make the ACC All-Freshman team since Caleb Love and Day'Ron Sharpe in 2021.
• Cadeau joined Ed Cota, Raymond Felton, Bobby Frasor, Ty Lawson, Kendall Marshall, Marcus Paige, Coby White, Cole Anthony and Love as Tar Heel point guards to earn All-Freshman team honors.
• Hubert Davis was named ACC Coach of the Year by the ACC panel and the Associated Press.
• Davis was the fifth Tar Heel to win ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors (a total of 13 times), joining Frank McGuire, Dean Smith (eight times), Bill Guthridge and Roy Williams (2006 and 2011).
ELLIOT ON POINT
• Elliot Cadeau leads Carolina in plus/minus in the first two games at plus 33. He was plus 28 against Elon and plus five at Kansas. The Elon game was the highest plus/minus in his career (previous was plus 27 in a 36-point win over Syracuse last season).
• He is averaging 14.5 points and 7.5 assists in the first two games. He scored 17 points and had a game-high eight assists in the win over Elon.
• He made a career-high three 3FGs vs. Elon. It was the third time in his career he made multiple three-pointers in a game.
• Last year, he led Carolina with 150 assists, the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Marcus Paige's 161 in 2012-13.
• Cadeau was the 11th Tar Heel freshman with 100 or more assists in a season and had the fourth-highest assist/turnover ratio (2.24) among those 11 players.
• He scored a season-high 19 points and had eight assists in the win at Miami on Feb 10.
• The West Orange, N.J., native had a season-best 10 assists and no turnovers in the win over Tennessee.
BACK-TO-BACK BESTS FOR TRIMBLE
• Junior guard Seth Trimble has set a career scoring high in each of the two games. First, he scored 15 points against Elon. His previous high was a dozen, a number he matched in the first half of the win over the Phoenix.
• At Kansas, Trimble set another career high with 19 points, becoming the only player on the current roster to lead the Tar Heels in scoring other than RJ Davis (who has done that 46 times).
• On October 15 in an exhibition game victory at Memphis, Trimble made 11 of 17 field goals and scored a game-high 33 points.
• Trimble was one of three Tar Heels (with Elliot Cadeau and RJ Davis) to make three three-point field goals vs. Elon. Those were career highs for both Trimble and Cadeau.
• Trimble made one of six from three-point range as a freshman and is 17 of 38 (.447) since.
TRIPLES FOR JAE'LYN
• Jae'Lyn Withers made three 3FGs and totaled 11 points and nine rebounds at Kansas.
• Withers has made five 3FGs in the first two games – he made four all of last season.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Ty Claude has scored 944 points ... needs 56 for 1,000.
• RJ Davis has made 278 three-pointers, second most all-time by a Tar Heel ... needs 22 to pass Marcus Paige (299).
• Davis has scored 2,128 points, fifth most by a Tar Heel ... needs 18 to pass Sam Perkins (2,145) for fourth.
• Cade Tyson has scored 914 points ... needs 86 for 1,000.
• Ven-Allen Lubin has 298 rebounds and 508 points ... needs two rebounds for 300 ... he scored his 500th career point when he netted 10 points at Kansas.
• Jae'Lyn Withers has 607 rebounds ... he topped the 600-rebound mark at KU, when he had nine, which shared the team lead with Jalen Washington.
NOVEMBER SIGNEES
• Carolina signed two players this week– Isaiah Denis of Concord, N.C., and Derek Dixon of Vienna, Va.
• "Both players are what we wanted and needed in our class of 2026," says UNC's fourth-year head coach Hubert Davis.
• Denis is a 6-5 guard at Davidson Day High School in Davidson, N.C. His parents are Nancy Denis and Frantz Denis, and he plays AAU for CP3.
• "Isaiah is an athletic wing that can score on all three levels and will immediately give us the versatility needed out there on the floor. He's a great student and it means something to him to play in his home state.
• Dixon, the son of John and Kari Dixon, is a 6-3 guard at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He also plays AAU for Team Takeover.
• "Derek is a complete basketball player that will make an immediate impact on the court, off the court and in the classroom. He has the ability to shoot, pass and defend at an elite level.
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• Carolina trailed by as many as 20 points late in the first half and by 15 at intermission but stormed back to take an 87-83 lead with 3:25 to play in Lawrence. The game was tied at 89 when KU's Hunter Dickinson scored to give the Jayhawks the lead for good, and the Tar Heels missed three 3FG attempts over the final 90 seconds.
• Seth Trimble led UNC with 19 points. He was one of six Tar Heels to score in double figures.
• UNC and American are playing for the first time.
• The Eagles (1-2) are playing the second of six straight games away from home. They lost, 74-66 at Siena on Tuesday.
• This is Carolina's first game vs. a current member of the America East Conference since defeating Vermont in Greensboro in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
• Jackie Manuel, a captain, starter and defensive standout on the Tar Heels' 2005 NCAA championship team is an assistant coach with the Eagles. Manuel later spent two seasons (2021-23) on Hubert Davis' staff.
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER
• This is the 40th season the Tar Heels play their home games in the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center, more commonly known as the Smith Center or the Dean Dome.
• The first game was a 95-92 win over Duke on 1/18/1986.
• UNC is 478-87 (.846) in the Smith Center, including 229-18 (.927) against non-ACC teams.
• Carolina has won its last five games in the Smith Center since a loss to Clemson on 2/6/2024.
• Carolina has won 18 straight non-conference games in the Smith Center since a loss to Marquette on 2/24/2022.
BIG PICTURE
• This is the 115th season of Carolina Basketball.
The Tar Heels have won seven national championships (six NCAA Tournament titles), played in a record 21 Final Fours, won a record 133 NCAA Tournament games, played in the NCAA Tournament 53 times, been a No. 1 seed a record 18 times, won a record 33 regular season ACC titles, won 18 ACC Tournament championships and have had 10 former players inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame.
• The Tar Heels are led by Hubert Davis, in his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater. The 2022 National Coach-of-the-Year winner and the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year has led UNC to a 79-32 record.
• Davis' 78 wins through 2023-24 were the second most by a Carolina head coach and fourth most ever at a Power 4 Conference program after three years as a head coach.
• Carolina is the only major program in the country whose six coaches all played at their alma mater. Davis played for Hall of Famer Dean Smith from 1988-92. Jeff Lebo (1985-89) and Pat Sullivan (1990-95) also played at UNC for Smith, Brad Frederick played for Smith and Bill Guthridge (1996-99) and Sean May (2002-05) and Marcus Paige (2012-16) played for Hall of Famer Roy Williams.
• The Tar Heels went 29-8 last year, winning the program's 33rd regular season ACC title with a 17-3 record and earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA West Regional, where they advanced to the Sweet 16.
• Carolina returns five players, including two starters, from last year, and welcomes 10 newcomers – five freshmen and five transfers.
• The five returnees include unanimous first-team All-America and ACC Player of the Year RJ Davis, All-ACC Freshman honoree Elliot Cadeau, guard Seth Trimble and forwards Jae'Lyn Withers and Jalen Washington.
• Key departures include Armando Bacot, Carolina's all-time leading rebounder and second-leading scorer, Harrison Ingram, a second-round pick by San Antonio and Cormac Ryan, who played 152 college games.
• Bacot, Ingram and Ryan combined to score 46% of UNC's points and grab 76% of the rebounds, while Ingram and Ryan made 140 of the Tar Heels' 301 three-pointers (47%).
VERSUS NO. 1
• With the loss to Kansas on November 8, Carolina is 14-21 all-time against teams ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll.
• The 14 wins are the most wins vs. No. 1 by any program in college basketball history.
• Carolina is 6-8 in true road games vs. No. 1.
• Kansas was the 13th different opponent the Tar Heels have played as No. 1 (Cincinnati, UConn, Duke, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, NC State, Oklahoma, Syracuse, Temple and Virginia).
POLLING
• The Tar Heels are ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press poll.
• UNC was ninth in the AP's preseason poll. This is the 46th season UNC entered the season or was ranked in the top 10 in the first AP poll (in some seasons in the 1950s there were no preseason polls). In the previous 45 instances when UNC began the year in the top 10 in the first AP poll, the Tar Heels also finished the season in the top 10 on 32 occasions.
• Carolina finished the 2023-24 season No. 6 in the coaches' poll and No. 7 in the AP poll.
• Last year was the 39th time Carolina was ranked in the top 10 in the final AP poll (out of 76 seasons), the third most in college basketball history.
• This week's No. 10 ranking by the AP is the 959th time the Tar Heels are ranked, second most all-time.
• This is the 68th season UNC is ranked at least once in the AP poll (in 77 seasons) and the 60th season UNC has been ranked at least once in the top 10.
• UNC was ranked by the AP in all 21 polls last season.
PLAYING THE TOP TEAMS
• Carolina annually plays one of the most difficult schedules, both in and out of conference play, and the preseason polls indicate 2024-25 will be another challenge.
• Since KenPom began in 2001-02, the Tar Heels' strength of schedule was ranked in the top 10 in the nation 13 times and in the top 25 on 20 occasions.
• Carolina's 2024-25 schedule features at least seven games against current top-25 opponents, including No. 1 Kansas (on the road), No. 2 Alabama (home), No. 5 Iowa State or No. 7 Auburn (second day in Maui), No. 6 Duke (home and away), No. 20 Florida (in Charlotte). Third-ranked UConn is also on the other side of the bracket in Maui.
PRESEASON ACCOLADES
• Carolina was picked to finish second and RJ Davis was selected the ACC's preseason player of the year at the conference's media day.
• Davis is a National Player of the Year candidate (Naismith, NABC and Wooden), ranked the No. 2 player in the country (CBS and ESPN) and was tabbed a preseason All-America by numerous media, including the Associated Press, Sporting News, Blue Ribbon Yearbook, Field of 68, CBS, Fox, Sports Illustrated and ESPN's Jay Bilas.
• Davis won the Naismith Hall of Fame's Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year award in 2024. He is on the preseason watch list.
• Sophomore Elliott Cadeau (Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year), freshmen Ian Jackson and Drake Powell (Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year) and junior Cade Tyson (Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year) also are named on the Hall of Fame's preseason positional awards watch lists.
• Davis was the first Tar Heel and second ACC player to win the Jerry West Award.
• Carolina is the only team to win the Cousy Award three times (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012).
RJ DAVIS
• Davis has scored the second-most points ever by a Tar Heel guard (2,128). He trails only 1978 Wooden Award winner Phil Ford, and Davis has scored the fifth most among all players ever to play at Carolina.
• Davis scored 784 points last season, the fourth most in Carolina history and the most since Tyler Hansbrough scored 882 in 2007-08.
• Davis' 784 points were the most in a season in Carolina history by a guard.
• Should Davis score 784 points again this season he would tie Hansbrough for the most points by a Tar Heel and the most in ACC history.
• Davis made 113 3FGs, breaking the UNC single-season record (Justin Jackson made 105 in 2016-17).
• Davis has made 278 career three-pointers, the second most all-time by a Tar Heel. Marcus Paige is first with 299.
• Davis is also Carolina's all-time leader in free throw percentage. He has made 16 of 18 from the line in the first two games this season and has converted 438 of 510 in his career for 85.9%. Shammond Williams is second at 84.8%.
• The Kansas game was the fifth in which Davis attempted 10 or more free throws in a game in his career. He was 9 for 10 vs. Baylor in the 2022 NCAA second round, 14 for 14 vs. NC State in 2023, 10 for 10 vs. Arkansas and 9 for 10 at Virginia last season and 9 for 11 vs. the Jayhawks.
• Davis became the 19th Tar Heel to earn consensus first-team All-America honors. Those 19 players have won consensus first-team All-America honors a total of 28 times.
• Davis joined Lennie Rosenbluth in 1957, Phil Ford in 1978, Michael Jordan in 1983 and 1984, Kenny Smith in 1987, Jerry Stackhouse in 1995, Antawn Jamison in 1998, Joseph Forte in 2001 and Tyler Hansbrough in 2008 and 2009 as the only Tar Heels to make first-team All-America on each of the teams the NCAA recognizes to determine consensus first-team All-America.
DAVIS LED ACC IN SCORING
• Davis led the ACC last year in scoring at 21.2 points per game. He was the first Tar Heel to lead the ACC in scoring since Tyler Hansbrough in 2007-08.
• Davis is the 11th Tar Heel to lead the ACC in scoring (Billy Cunningham did it twice).
• Davis' career scoring average is 15.2, the eighth-highest by a Tar Heel guard. Over the last three seasons, he has averaged 18.9 per game.
• Davis was the 15th Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Year honors, the first since Justin Jackson in 2016-17. It is the 16th time a Tar Heel has won the award (Larry Miller won twice).
• Davis was the fifth Tar Heel guard to win the award with Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Joseph Forte and Ty Lawson.
• Elliot Cadeau made the ACC All-Freshman team. He was the first Tar Heel to make the ACC All-Freshman team since Caleb Love and Day'Ron Sharpe in 2021.
• Cadeau joined Ed Cota, Raymond Felton, Bobby Frasor, Ty Lawson, Kendall Marshall, Marcus Paige, Coby White, Cole Anthony and Love as Tar Heel point guards to earn All-Freshman team honors.
• Hubert Davis was named ACC Coach of the Year by the ACC panel and the Associated Press.
• Davis was the fifth Tar Heel to win ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors (a total of 13 times), joining Frank McGuire, Dean Smith (eight times), Bill Guthridge and Roy Williams (2006 and 2011).
ELLIOT ON POINT
• Elliot Cadeau leads Carolina in plus/minus in the first two games at plus 33. He was plus 28 against Elon and plus five at Kansas. The Elon game was the highest plus/minus in his career (previous was plus 27 in a 36-point win over Syracuse last season).
• He is averaging 14.5 points and 7.5 assists in the first two games. He scored 17 points and had a game-high eight assists in the win over Elon.
• He made a career-high three 3FGs vs. Elon. It was the third time in his career he made multiple three-pointers in a game.
• Last year, he led Carolina with 150 assists, the most by a Tar Heel freshman since Marcus Paige's 161 in 2012-13.
• Cadeau was the 11th Tar Heel freshman with 100 or more assists in a season and had the fourth-highest assist/turnover ratio (2.24) among those 11 players.
• He scored a season-high 19 points and had eight assists in the win at Miami on Feb 10.
• The West Orange, N.J., native had a season-best 10 assists and no turnovers in the win over Tennessee.
BACK-TO-BACK BESTS FOR TRIMBLE
• Junior guard Seth Trimble has set a career scoring high in each of the two games. First, he scored 15 points against Elon. His previous high was a dozen, a number he matched in the first half of the win over the Phoenix.
• At Kansas, Trimble set another career high with 19 points, becoming the only player on the current roster to lead the Tar Heels in scoring other than RJ Davis (who has done that 46 times).
• On October 15 in an exhibition game victory at Memphis, Trimble made 11 of 17 field goals and scored a game-high 33 points.
• Trimble was one of three Tar Heels (with Elliot Cadeau and RJ Davis) to make three three-point field goals vs. Elon. Those were career highs for both Trimble and Cadeau.
• Trimble made one of six from three-point range as a freshman and is 17 of 38 (.447) since.
TRIPLES FOR JAE'LYN
• Jae'Lyn Withers made three 3FGs and totaled 11 points and nine rebounds at Kansas.
• Withers has made five 3FGs in the first two games – he made four all of last season.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Ty Claude has scored 944 points ... needs 56 for 1,000.
• RJ Davis has made 278 three-pointers, second most all-time by a Tar Heel ... needs 22 to pass Marcus Paige (299).
• Davis has scored 2,128 points, fifth most by a Tar Heel ... needs 18 to pass Sam Perkins (2,145) for fourth.
• Cade Tyson has scored 914 points ... needs 86 for 1,000.
• Ven-Allen Lubin has 298 rebounds and 508 points ... needs two rebounds for 300 ... he scored his 500th career point when he netted 10 points at Kansas.
• Jae'Lyn Withers has 607 rebounds ... he topped the 600-rebound mark at KU, when he had nine, which shared the team lead with Jalen Washington.
NOVEMBER SIGNEES
• Carolina signed two players this week– Isaiah Denis of Concord, N.C., and Derek Dixon of Vienna, Va.
• "Both players are what we wanted and needed in our class of 2026," says UNC's fourth-year head coach Hubert Davis.
• Denis is a 6-5 guard at Davidson Day High School in Davidson, N.C. His parents are Nancy Denis and Frantz Denis, and he plays AAU for CP3.
• "Isaiah is an athletic wing that can score on all three levels and will immediately give us the versatility needed out there on the floor. He's a great student and it means something to him to play in his home state.
• Dixon, the son of John and Kari Dixon, is a 6-3 guard at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He also plays AAU for Team Takeover.
• "Derek is a complete basketball player that will make an immediate impact on the court, off the court and in the classroom. He has the ability to shoot, pass and defend at an elite level.
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