UNC-NC State Postgame Notes

POSTGAME NOTES – ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
No. 10 NC STATE 84, No. 1 CAROLINA 76
MARCH 16, 2024
CAPITAL ONE ARENA
WASHINGTON, D.C.

UNC Scoring Leader: RJ Davis 30
UNC Rebound Leader: Armando Bacot 12
UNC Assist Leader: Elliot Cadeau 8
Team Records: Carolina 27-7, NC State 22-14

• The loss ended Carolina's eight-game winning streak.
• UNC is 108-52 all-time in the ACC Tournament, including 18-18 in the championship game.
• Carolina was playing in its ACC-record 36th championship game.
• Carolina is 4-3 vs. the Wolfpack in the championship game.
• Carolina is 29-12 in the ACC Tournament outside the state of North Carolina, including 6-2 in Capital One Arena.
• Carolina is 53-16 as the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament and 2-1 vs. No. 10 seeds.
• The Tar Heels have allowed 80 or more points in each of their last three losses and six of the seven losses this season.
• The Tar Heels shot 37.3% from the floor, their lowest percentage since Feb. 24, when they shot 32.0% in a win at Virginia.
• Carolina missed 12 consecutive field goal attempts late in the game, the most in any game this season.
• Carolina dropped to 3-3 this season when it shot under 30% for the game.
• Carolina shot 50% from the floor in the first half but only 28.2% in the second half, its second-lowest percentage in a half this season (26.1% in the second half in the win at Virginia).
• Carolina was 8 for 30 from three. The 30 attempts were the second most this season (31 at Miami).
• UNC shot 26.7% from three, its lowest percentage since shooting 22.7% (5 of 22) in the Dec. 2 win over Florida State.
• Carolina scored only 22 points in the paint, the third fewest this season (18 at Virginia and 20 vs. Northern Iowa).
• NC State was 22 for 29 from the free throw line. It was the third time this season an opponent made 20 or more free throws (Villanova was 32 for 36 and Boston College was 25 for 29).
• NC State shot 58.6% from the floor in the first half, 50% in the second and 54.9% for the game.
• It was the third time this season an opponent shot 50% in both halves. The others were in UNC's win over Tennessee and a loss at Syracuse.
• NC State's field goal percentage (.549) was the third highest by an opponent this season (62.5% by the Orange at Syracuse and 55.6% by Tennessee.)

• RJ Davis (30) and Armando Bacot (18) scored 48 of UNC's 76 points, including 27 of the 36 second-half points.
• Bacot and Davis were selected first-team All-Tournament. Bacot was first team in 2021 and second team in 2022. Davis was second team in 2023.
• Davis was the first Tar Heel to score 30 in an ACC Tournament game since Harrison Barnes scored 40 vs. Clemson in 2011.
• Davis is the first Tar Heel with four 30-point games in a season since Antawn Jamison in 1997-98.
• The 30 points were the most by a Tar Heel in the championship game since Charlie Scott's 40 vs. Duke in 1969. Davis' 30 are the fourth most by a Tar Heel in a title game – Miller's 40, Lennie Rosenbluth scored 38 vs. South Carolina in 1957 and Larry Miller had 32 vs. Duke in 1967.
• Davis made four three-pointers and broke the single-season UNC record for threes with 106. Justin Jackson made 105 in 2016-17.
• It was Davis' 21st 20-point game (most since Tyler Hansbrough did it 21 times in 2008-09) and his 11th 25-point game.
• Davis has 726 points this season, the 13th time a Tar Heel has scored 700 or more and the first since Jackson scored 731 in 2016-17.
• It was the 39th straight game Davis made a three (third-longest streak in UNC history) and the 30th time in 34 games he made two or more.
• Davis was 10 for 26 from the floor. It was a career-high 26 attempts and the fourth time (all four this season) he made 10 or more.
• Davis has 2,030 career points. He passed Charlie Scott (2,007) and Al Wood (2,015) to move into sixth place in UNC career scoring.
• Bacot had 18 points and 12 rebounds for his 17th double-double of the season (UNC 13-4), the 85th of his career and eighth in an ACC Tournament game.
• Bacot tied Ford for second in UNC career scoring with 2,290 points.
• Bacot passed Virginia's Ralph Sampson for second in ACC history and fourth in NCAA history with 85 double-doubles
• Bacot tied Wake Forest's Tim Duncan and Duke's Carroll Youngkin with his eighth ACC Tournament double-double.
• Bacot is the first player with three straight double-doubles in one ACC Tournament since Tar Heel John Henson in 2011.
• Harrison Ingram was the third Tar Heel to score in double figures (10). He made all three of his field goals from three-point range, the ninth time this season he made three or more.
• Elliott Cadeau had a game-high eight assists, the fourth time this season he had eight or more.

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• Carolina is 166-81 against the Wolfpack, 12-5 in the ACC Tournament.
• DJ Horne's 29 points were the most against UNC in the ACC Tournament since Duke's Zion Williamson scored 31 in the 2019 semifinal in Charlotte.
• Horne's 29 points were the most against UNC in a championship game since Duke's William Avery scored 29 in the Blue Devils' win in 1999 in Charlotte. Only Wake Forest's Randolph Childress (37 in 1995) scored more in a championship game.
• Horne's 29 points were the most by a Wolfpack player in 17 ACC Tournament games vs. UNC (previous high was 28 by Brandon Costner in Carolina's 2007 championship game victory in Tampa).

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