No. 14 Tar Heels Make First ACC Visit To Stanford Wednesday

Wednesday, January 14

Stanford, Calif.

9 p.m.

North Carolina

Stanford

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

January 13, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 17: AT STANFORD
• Following last Saturday's 87-84 win over Wake Forest, 14th-ranked Carolina returns to action on Wednesday, January 14, at Stanford. The game at Maples Pavilion is 2,788 miles from the Dean E. Smith Center, the farthest the Tar Heels will have traveled for an Atlantic Coast Conference game.
• That distance will be surpassed on Saturday, January 17, when UNC visits Haas Pavilion in Berkeley to play Cal. That will be the Tar Heels' second-ever game at Haas, which is 2,805 miles from the Smith Center, and its first in 54 years.
• Carolina-Stanford will tip at 9 p.m. Eastern on the ACC Network (Roxy Bernstein, Miles Simon).
• The Tar Heels are 14-2, 2-1 in the ACC. The Cardinal are 13-4, 2-2. Stanford is 1-1 at home in league play (beat Louisville) and went 1-1 last week in Virginia, defeating Virginia Tech by a point and losing in Charlottesville on Saturday, 70-55.
• Carolina is 1-1 on the road this season. The Tar Heels defeated Kentucky, 67-64, on December 2, and lost, 97-83, at SMU on January 3.
• The Cardinal are 8-3 at Maples Pavilion this season, including home losses to Seattle, UNLV and Notre Dame.
• Carolina jumped three spots this week in the Associated Press poll to No. 14. The Tar Heels head to Palo Alto No. 23 in the NET and 33rd in KenPom.
• Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson combined for 47 points and 21 rebounds and made 17 of 19 shots from the floor in the 87-84 win over Wake Forest on January 10.
• The win was Carolina's 500th in the Dean E. Smith Center, where UNC is playing its home games for the 41st season.
• Carolina overcame a pair of 28-point performances by guards Nate Calmese and Juke Harris, who combined to make 11 three-pointers and score 56 of the Demon Deacons' 84 points.
• Tar Heel guard Jaydon Young hit three 3FGs and scored a season-best 12 points.
• Carolina scored 21 second-chance points, one off its season-high (22 in the win at Kentucky).
• The Tar Heels are 14-2 for the first time since 2015-16. Carolina began that season, which ended with a berth in the national championship game, with a 7-2 record then won 12 straight games to get to 19-2.

TAR HEELS IN CALIFORNIA
• The Tar Heels are 16-9 in California, including 3-0 in Stanford.
• This is UNC's first game at Stanford since
beating the Cardinals, 96-72, on 11/20/2017.
• Carolina is 5-7 in Los Angeles, 3-0 in Stanford, 2-0 in Santa Clara, 1-0 in Berkeley, 1-0 in Malibu, 1-0 in Long Beach, 1-0 in San Diego, 1-0 in Santa Barbara and 0-2 in Oakland. The Tar Heels also defeated Michigan State in 2011 on the USS Carl Vinson, when the active-duty aircraft carrier was docked in San Diego.
• The Tar Heels are 2-0 vs. Stanford at Maples Pavilion and 1-0 vs. Fordham. In December 1983, UNC, led by head coach Dean Smith and All-Americas Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins, beat Fordham and Stanford to win the Stanford Invitational. On 11/20/2017, guards Joel Berry II (29) and Kenny Williams (20) combined for 49 points in a 96-72 UNC victory over the Cardinal.
• This is the Tar Heels' first game in California since an 89-87 loss to Alabama in Los Angeles on 3/28/2024, in the NCAA West Region Sweet 16. Seth Trimble scored eight points for the Tar Heels in that game vs. the Tide.

UNC-STANFORD
• Carolina is 13-1 all-time against Stanford, 0-1 in ACC play.
• Last season, on 1/18/2025, Stanford's Jaylin Blakes' scored with 1.5 seconds left to give the Cardinal a 72-71 victory in the Smith Center and end UNC's 13-game series win streak.
• It was only the 19th time Carolina ever lost in the Smith Center when leading at halftime. UNC committed only five turnovers, the fewest in a loss since 2017.
• RJ Davis led UNC with 19 points.
• On 11/20/2017, Kenny Williams scored Carolina's first 14 points and finished with a career-high 20 in a 96-72 Tar Heel victory at Stanford. Joel Berry II led all scorers with 29. Williams set a UNC record with six three-pointers in the first half.
• On 12/3/1983, seniors Sam Perkins (the tournament MVP) and Matt Doherty combined for 33 points in an 88-75 win over the Cardinal in Maples Pavilion. Michael Jordan scored four points and fouled out midway through the second half after playing just seven minutes. It was Dean Smith's 500th win.

CAROLINA & THE ACC
• This is the 73rd season of competition in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels were a charter member of the league, which began play in the 1953-54 season.
• Carolina is the only school with 50 or more combined ACC men's basketball championships (33 regular season and 18 Tournament). Duke is second with 44 (21 regular season and 23 Tournament) and NC State is next with 18 (seven regular season and 11 Tournament).
• Hubert Davis is 58-25 in regular-season ACC games. Only one other team has more ACC wins in the last five seasons.
• Davis led the Tar Heels to ACC records of 15-5, 11-9, 17-3 and 13-7 in the previous four seasons. The 2023-24 team won the regular-season title, Carolina's 33rd.
• Carolina is 773-321 (.707) in regular-season ACC games. The 773 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 742.

NOT TWINS, BUT TOWERS
• Junior center Henri Veesaar and freshman forward Caleb Wilson are on pace to become the first pair in ACC history to average 16 points and nine rebounds and shoot 55% from the floor (research by Jody Zeugner).
• Only four pairs of players in ACC history have both averaged at least 16 points and nine rebounds in a season and none since NC State's Vann Williford and Paul Coder in 1969-70.
• Veesaar and Wilson are combining for 36.4 points and 20.2 rebounds per game. They have blocked 40 shots, have 77 assists, shot 60.7% from the floor and attempted 190 free throws.
• Wilson is averaging 19.5 points and 11.0 rebounds, while Veesaar is averaging 16.9 points and 9.2 rebounds.
• Combined, they have 19 double-doubles and scored 20 or more points 15 times.
• The only other time two Tar Heels averaged at least 16 points and nine rebounds was 1959-60 (18.2 points and 11.2 rebounds by Lee Shaffer and 16.8 points and 11.3 rebounds by Doug Moe, who played only 12 of the 14 games).
• Wilson and Veesaar are the first pair of Tar Heels to average 9.0 rebounds in the same season since John Henson (9.9) and Tyler Zeller (9.6) in 2011-12.
• Per BartTorvik.com, Wilson leads the country in dunks with 52, while Veesaar is sixth with 36.
• Either Veesaar or Wilson has led the team in scoring and rebounding in 14 of the first 16 games.
• They account for 44.5% of Carolina's scoring, 48.8% of the rebounds, 46.9% of the field goals made and 49.7% of the free throw attempts.

DOUBLE TIME
• Caleb Wilson (11) and Henri Veesaar (8) rank fourth & 12th, respectively, in the nation in double-doubles.
• Veesaar and Wilson both have recorded double-doubles in points and rebounds seven times (NC Central, St. Bonaventure, Kentucky, Georgetown, Ohio State, ECU and Florida State).
• Their seven games with double-doubles by both players already equal the third-most in a season by a pair of Tar Heels.

DOUBLE-DOUBLES BY TWO TAR HEELS, SEASON
John Henson & Tyler Zeller 2011-12 9
Rusty Clark & Larry Miller 1966-67 8
Henri Veesaar & Caleb Wilson, 2025-26 7
Pete Brennan & Lennie Rosenbluth 1955-56 7
Phil Ford & Mitch Kupchak 1975-76 6
Lee Dedmon & Charlie Scott 1969-70 6
Brennan & Rosenbluth 1956-57 6
Brennan & Joe Quigg 1956-57

WILSON: MID-SEASON WOODEN AWARD CANDIDATE
• Caleb Wilson has quickly emerged as one of the most productive and engaging freshmen in Carolina Basketball history.
• Last week, he was one of 25 players named to the midseason watch list for the John R. Wooden Award, presented to the National Player of the Year by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
• Wilson was one of three ACC players and eight freshmen on the midseason top 25 for the Wooden Award.
• The 6-10 Atlanta native has made an immediate impact on the Tar Heel record book, becoming the first freshman to score 20 or more points in six consecutive games. The previous record was five by College Basketball Hall of Famer Phil Ford in 1974-75.
• Wilson has scored 20 or more points 11 times, the most by a freshman since Tyler Hansbrough set UNC's single-season rookie record with 14 20-point games in 2005-06.
• Hansbrough, Rashad McCants, Wilson and Ford are the only UNC freshmen with 10 or more 20-point games.

20-Point Games by a UNC Freshman
Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06 14
Rashad McCants, 2002-03 12
Caleb Wilson, 2025-26 11
Phil Ford, 1974-75 10

• Wilson leads the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounds, steals, free throws (made and attempted) and blocks.
• His scoring average of 19.5 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.

SINGLE-SEASON SCORING, UNC FRESHMAN
19.5 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
18.9 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
18.5 Cole Anthony, 2019-20
17.0 Rashad McCants, 2002-03
16.7 Joseph Forte, 1999-2000

• Hansbrough (in 2005-06) is the only Tar Heel freshman to lead the team in both scoring and rebounding. He also led the team as a freshman in steals. No Tar Heel freshman has ever led the team in scoring, rebounding, blocks and steals.
• Joseph Forte (16.7 ppg in 1999-2000), McCants (17.0 in 2002-03), Hansbrough (18.9 in 2005-06), Harrison Barnes (co-leader at 15.7 in 2010-11) and Cole Anthony (18.5 in 2019-20) are the freshmen who have led UNC in scoring.
• Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) are the freshmen who led UNC in rebounding.
• Wilson is averaging 11.0 rebounds per game. The UNC freshman record is 9.6 per game in 1995-96 by Jamison.

SINGLE-SEASON REBOUNDING, UNC FRESHMAN
11.0 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
9.8 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
8.3 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
7.8 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
7.8 Sam Perkins, 1980-81

• Eighteen Tar Heels have averaged a double-double in points and rebounds in a season, but none of them were a freshman.
• Wilson leads the country with 52 dunks, five more than any other player (through January 12).
• He has scored in double figures in all 16 games and has 11 double-doubles. He has 12 or more rebounds in 10 of his 11 double-doubles, including a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.

Double-Doubles by a UNC Freshman
(all points and rebounds)
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
11 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
11 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81

• Wilson has the third-longest streak of double-figure scoring games (16) by a UNC freshman to begin a season. Only McCants (20 in 2002-03) and Brandan Wright (18 in 2006-07) have more.
• Wilson leads the ACC and is fourth in the country in double-doubles (10) and leads the ACC and is fourth in the nation in rebounds per game (11.0). He leads all freshmen nationally in both categories.
• In Carolina's 79-66 win over Florida State on December 30, Wilson became the sixth Tar Heel ever with at least 20 points, 15 rebounds and five assists in a game.

20 PTS/15 REB/5 ASSISTS BY A TAR HEEL
Caleb Wilson vs. FSU, 12/30/25 (22/16/6)
Luke Maye vs. Arkansas, 11/24/17 (28/16/5)
Joseph Forte at Duke in 2/1/01 (24/16/6)
James Worthy vs. Detroit, 12/15/79 (24/16/6)
Mitch Kupchak vs. Detroit, 2/4/76 (30/17/5)
Billy Cunningham vs. WFU, 2/9/65 (35/19/7)

• Wilson became the third Tar Heel ever to lead UNC outright in points, rebounds, assists and blocks (Jerry Stackhouse vs. Murray State on 3/17/1995 and Mike O'Koren vs. Detroit on 12/4/1978).

LED UNC OUTRIGHT IN PTS/REB/AST/BLKS
Caleb Wilson vs. FSU, 12/30/25 (22/16/6/2)
Jerry Stackhouse vs. Murray State, 3/17/95 (25/11/5/2)
Mike O'Koren vs. Detroit, 12/4/78 (26/10/5/1)

• Wilson set a UNC freshman record with four consecutive double-doubles against Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Bacot (twice), Jamison and O'Koren were the only Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row.
• Wilson made five or more free throws in each of the first 11 games, becoming the fifth Tar Heel in the ACC era (1953-present) to make five or more in 11 consecutive games.
• Wilson is second in the country in free throw attempts (126).
• Against Navy, he became the first Tar Heel ever to score 23 points, grab 12 rebounds, make three blocks and have four steals in any game.
• He netted 22 points vs. Central Arkansas and 24 vs. Kansas to become the first Tar Heel freshman ever to score more than 20 points in his first two games.
• Wilson compiled a game-high 24 points with seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in the win over Kansas. He became just the second Tar Heel freshman (with Coby White against Virginia Tech in 2018-19) and the fourth Tar Heel regardless of class (with Walter Davis and O'Koren) to have at least 24 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in a game.
• His 22 points in the opener vs. Central Arkansas were the fourth-most by a Tar Heel freshman in his debut since first-year players became eligible in 1972-73.

VEESAAR A DUAL THREAT
• Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar, a transfer from Arizona, leads the team in field goal shooting (64.8%), is second in scoring (16.9)rebounding (9.2) and blocks (18).
• He went 9 for 10 from the floor, including 2 for 3 from three-point range, and added nine boards and four assists in the win over Wake Forest. It was the second time this season he shot 90% from the floor in a game when he took at least 10 shots.
• The Estonia native scored the game-winner against Ohio State, had a game-high 17 points in the win at Kentucky and grabbed a career-best 15 rebounds in the win over Georgetown.
• Veesaar has eight double-doubles as a Tar Heel, the first eight of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He is second in the ACC and 10th in the country in field goal shooting and second in the ACC and 12th nationally in double-doubles.
• Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (26 vs. ETSU), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown), offensive rebounds (six vs. Florida State), blocks (five vs. NC Central), assists (five vs. Ohio State) and three-pointers (four vs. ECU).
• He has established career highs in rebounds four times – 10 vs. Central Arkansas, 11 vs. NC Central, 13 vs. St. Bonaventure and 15 vs. Georgetown.
• He has scored 20 or more points four times – 26 vs. ETSU, 25 vs. Wake Forest, 24 vs. the Bonnies and 20 vs. Kansas. He had one 20-point game in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 245 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus a team-high five times.

HENRI THE FIRST
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina's first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 21 for 41 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.512).
• Prior to this season, two 7-footers made one three apiece. Serge Zwikker made a three in the ACC semifinals vs. Tim Duncan's Wake Forest Demon Deacons on 3/8/1997 and Walker Kessler made one vs. Northeastern on 2/17/2021.
• Veesaar made two of UNC's nine three-pointers vs. Wake Forest. It was the fifth time in the last six games (and seventh time this season) he made multiple threes in a game. That includes a career-high four vs. ECU and two six times.

MISCELLANEOUS NUMBERS
• The Tar Heels are fifth in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 38.3% from the floor. They've held seven opponents below 35% and 10 under 40%.
• However, in the last two games, SMU and Wake Forest have shot a combined 54.0% from the floor, making 67 of 124. The Mustangs were 14 for 27 from three and the Deacons were 14 of 35, a combined 45.2% from beyond the arc.
• SMU and Wake Forest have topped the 50% mark from the floor in three of the last four halves, something the opponents had only done twice in the previous 28 halves (second half by Michigan State and first half by Kentucky in consecutive games).
• Prior to the SMU game, Carolina had held six straight opponents below 40% shooting from the floor, the first time the defense had done that since 2014-15.
• The opponents' field goal percentage (.383) is still the lowest allowed by Carolina since 1959-60, when the opponents shot 37.5%.
• The last time UNC held the opponents below 40% over a season was 2014-15, when the opponents shot 39.8%.
• UNC is 10-0 this season and 55-4 under head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents under 40% from the floor.
• The Tar Heel defense is third in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (42.8%) and seventh in effective field goal percentage (44.2%).
• The opponents have shot under 40% from the floor in 18 of 32 halves.
• The Tar Heels held each of their first 14 opponents to fewer than 75 points. This was the first time no opponent scored 75 or more points in the first 14 games since 1981-82, when the national champion Tar Heels played all 34 games without allowing more than 74 points.
• Carolina is making 8.63 three-pointers per game, which just slightly trails the all-time UNC record (8.67 in 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye).

MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 games)
8.63 in 2025-26 (138 in 16 games)
8.41 in 2021-22 (328 in 39 games)
8.29 in 2002-03 (290 in 35 games)
8.25 in 1982-83 (132 in 16 games – ACC games only)

• Carolina is attempting 25.6 three-pointers per game, which would easily break the previous school record of 23.9 in 2018-19. The Tar Heels average 25.6 three-point attempts, even though big men Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar attempt more than 45% of all field goals.

MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
25.63 in 2025-26 (410 in 16 games)
23.94 in 2018-19 (862 in 36 games)
23.49 in 2021-22 (916 in 39 games)
23.49 in 2002-03 (822 in 35 games)
22.95 in 2017-18 (849 in 37 games)

• The Tar Heels are making 8.6 threes per game, while allowing 7.5. UNC is in on track to make more 3FG than its opponents for the fifth consecutive year. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made more 3FG one time (in 2012-13).
• The Tar Heels have won 17 straight games when making more three-pointers than their opponent.
• Including the win over Wake Forest, when UNC shot 52.7% from the floor, Carolina has made 50% or better of their field goal attempts in eight of the first 16 games. The Tar Heels are 43-1 under Davis when they make at least 50% from the floor.
• Michigan State is the only team this season that has outrebounded Carolina. The Tar Heels are 102-25 under Davis when they outrebound their opponents.
• Carolina is averaging 10.2 turnovers, which is the second-fewest per game in UNC history (10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels have committed fewer than 10 turnovers six times and turned it over a season-high 14 times in the win over Wake Forest.
• Including this season, the four-lowest turnover per game averages (and five of the six-lowest) have come in Davis' five seasons as head coach.
• Carolina's assist/turnover ratio of 1.74 is the best in UNC history (record is 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Carolina leads the ACC and is 14th in the nation in assist/turnover ratio.
• The Tar Heels force 9.5 turnovers per game. Carolina is 345th in the nation in forced turnovers.

500 WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER
• This is the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing their home games in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC's 500th in the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 500-90 in regular-season and NIT games in the Smith Center.
• UNC became the ninth current ACC team with 500 or more wins in their respective home venues.
• Carolina has won 84.7% of its games in the Smith Center. Only one team in the ACC that has 500 or more wins in its current venue has a higher winning percentage (.850 by Duke). Syracuse and Virginia are the only other ACC teams that have won 80% of their games in their current home arenas.
• Carolina's first win in the Smith Center came 40 years ago this week, on 1/18/1986, when No. 1-ranked UNC defeated No. 3 Duke, 95-92.
• Carolina is 259-71 (.785) in ACC games in the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have won 11 straight games in the Smith Center, all this season.
• UNC has played 46.3% of its home games in the Smith Center (590 of 1,274).
• Carolina has played 154 different opponents in regular-season or NIT games in the Smith Center.
• The Smith Center is the fifth home venue for the Tar Heels. Carolina has won 500 games in the Smith Center, 210 in Woollen Gym (1939-65), 170 in Carmichael Auditorium (1965-86, 2010), 130 in the Indoor Athletic Court (1924-38) and 63 in Bynum Gym (1911-23).

IN-SEASON AWARDS
• Freshman forward Caleb Wilson has earned National Player-of-the-Week honors twice this season. He was one of five players named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9 and he won the award from Andy Katz at NCAA March Madness for this play the week of December 15-21.
• Wilson also was named ACC Freshman of the Week twice, following the games against Central Arkansas and Kansas and against ETSU and Ohio State.
• He is the first Tar Heel to win multiple ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Caleb Love was a two-time recipient in 2021.
• Wilson also was the ACC's Co-Player of the Week after the Central Arkansas and Kansas games.
• Wilson was the first Tar Heel freshman to also win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
• Wilson became the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, joining Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Antawn Jamison (1996), Rashad McCants (2003), Tyler Hansbrough (2006), Brandan Wright (2007), Coby White (2019) and Anthony.

PROBABLE STARTERS VS. STANFORD
(based on the previous game vs. Wake Forest)
0 – Kyan Evans, Junior, Guard
7 – Seth Trimble, Senior, Guard
15 – Jarin Stevenson, R-Junior, Forward
8 – Caleb Wilson, Freshman, Forward
13 – Henri Veesaar, R-Junior, Center

• Seth Trimble started 18 of UNC's 37 games last season. Even with Trimble's return, this is the first season in which UNC did not return a player who started at least half the games in the previous season since 2005-06, when the Tar Heels replaced all five starters from a national championship team.
• Carolina's probable starters against Stanford have made a combined 156 college starts. That includes 52 by Kyan Evans, 28 by Trimble, 39 by Jarin Stevenson, 21 by Henri Veesaar, 16 by freshman Caleb Wilson.
• UNC has used three different starting lineups in the first 16 games. Evans, Wilson and Veesaar have started all 16 games.
• The starters against Wake Forest had started the first two games this season against Central Arkansas and Kansas before Trimble missed the next nine starts due to injury.

PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL
• The Tar Heels were picked to finish third in the 18-team Atlantic Coast Conference by the media at the ACC's preseason media day in Charlotte.
• Caleb Wilson was voted to the league's preseason All-ACC second team and the All-Freshman team.
• UNC was picked No. 25 in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll.
• This is the 69th different season in the 78-year history of the AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked at any point in the AP poll.

HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE
• The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis' fifth as head coach at the University of North Carolina and his 14th on the coaching staff at his alma mater. He is the only Tar Heel head coach to win 20 or more games in each of his first four seasons.
• Davis, 55 (turns 56 on May 17, 2026), has won National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a national title game appearance, 115 wins, a 58-25 record and 24 road wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Only one other team has won more ACC games in the last four years.
• Two of his players – RJ Davis and Armando Bacot – rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set numerous records and earned national and All-ACC awards.
• Carolina won its 100th game under Davis in the 2025 ACC Tournament, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC history and the sixth-fastest in ACC history to win 100 games. Only Duke's Vic Bubas, UNC's Roy Williams and Frank McGuire, Wake Forest's Skip Prosser and Maryland's Lefty Driesell reached 100 wins in fewer games than Davis (who won his 100th in 143 games).
• Under Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Tournament play, including wins against three national championship-winning coaches (Baylor's Scott Drew, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State's Tom Izzo) and three other coaches who have taken teams to the Final Four (Marquette's Shaka Smart, UCLA's Mick Cronin and San Diego State's Brian Dutcher).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 16 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including eight over top-10 teams (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke and No. 9 Duke in 2024).

2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES
• In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to Florida State, Wake Forest, Notre Dame (Jan. 21), Syracuse (Feb. 2), Duke (Feb. 7), Pitt (Feb. 14), Louisville (Feb. 23), Virginia Tech (Feb. 28) and Clemson (March 3).
• Carolina plays at SMU, Stanford (Jan.14), Cal (Jan. 17), Virginia (Jan. 24), Georgia Tech (Jan. 31), Miami (Feb. 10), NC State (Feb. 17), Syracuse (Feb. 21) and Duke (March 7).
• UNC is not scheduled to play Boston College.
• This will mark the first season since 1919 the Tar Heels are not playing NC State in Chapel Hill.
• The Tar Heels played Kansas in Chapel Hill for the first time ever. Last year, the Jayhawks defeated UNC in Lawrence. The November 7 game was just the third on-campus matchup in 14 games between the Tar Heels and KU.
• The Tar Heels are making their first trips as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal. UNC is 1-0 all-time against the Mustangs in Dallas (12/30/1986), 2-0 vs. the Cardinal in Maples Pavilion (12/3/1983 and 11/20/2017) and 1-0 vs. the Bears in Haas Pavilion (12/22/1972, when its was Harmon Gym).

TAR HEELS IN THE NBA
• Eleven former Tar Heels were on NBA Opening Day rosters, including Cole Anthony (Milwaukee), Harrison Barnes (San Antonio), Tony Bradley (Indiana), Harrison Ingram (San Antonio), Cameron Johnson (Denver), Walker Kessler (Utah), Caleb Love (Portland), Pete Nance (Milwaukee), rookie Drake Powell (Brooklyn), Day'Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Chicago).
• Five Carolina alumni are playing in the G League: Leaky Black (Capital City), Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis (South Bay), Harrison Ingram (Austin) and Cormac Ryan (Wisconsin).
• At least a dozen Tar Heels are playing internationally, including Armando Bacot (Turkey), Ty Claude (Serbia), Isaiah Hicks (South Korea), Brice Johnson (Dominican Republic), Christian Keeling (Finland), Nassir Little (Japan), Brady Manek (China), Luke Maye (Japan), James Michael McAdoo (Japan), Kennedy Meeks (Taiwan), J.P. Tokoto (Poland) and Jae'Lyn Withers (The Netherlands).