MBB Looks To Rebound At Cal Saturday

Saturday, January 17

Berkeley, Calif.

4 p.m.

North Carolina

Cal

Photo by: Maggie Hobson

January 16, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 18: AT CAL
• The Tar Heels play Cal in Berkeley for the first time in the ACC on Saturday at 4 p.m. Eastern.
• The game will be televised on the ACC Network (Wes Durham and Dennis Scott).
• Carolina is 14-3 overall and 2-2 in ACC play, while the Bears are 13-5 overall, 1-4 in the ACC.
• Carolina is 1-2 on the road, winning at Kentucky and losing at SMU and Stanford. Cal is 12-2 at Haas Pavilion with the two losses coming in league play against Louisville and Wednesday vs. Duke.
• The Cal game is the second of four away games for the Tar Heels in a five-game stretch. Next week, UNC returns to Chapel Hill to host Notre Dame on January 21, then it heads to Charlottesville to play Virginia on the 24th and Georgia Tech in Atlanta to close the month on the 31st.
• The Tar Heels play only two home games in January for the first time since the 1990-91 season.
• Carolina entered play this week No. 14 in the Associated Press poll. Following the loss at Stanford on Wednesday, the Tar Heels are No. 30 in the NET and 35th in KenPom.
• The Tar Heels opened their two-game California road trip with a 95-90 loss at Stanford. Henri Veesaar tied his career high with 26 points, freshman Caleb Wilson set a season high with 26, and the Tar Heels shot 58.2% from the floor, but the Cardinal got 36 points from freshman Ebuka Okorie and made 16 of 28 from three-point range to rally for the victory.
• Carolina led the Cardinal for nearly 38 minutes and by as many as 12 points in each half. The Tar Heels lost despite making 16 of 17 from two-point range and shooting 65.4% from the floor in the second half, as Stanford outscored UNC over the final 20 minutes by a combined 27 points from three-point range.
• It was the first time this season the Tar Heels lost when scoring 90 points, the first time when they shot 50% from the floor and the first time when leading at the half.

UNC-CAL
• Carolina is 5-1 all-time against Cal.
• Haas Pavilion is 2,805 miles from the Smith Center, the farthest UNC has traveled to play an ACC game.
• The Tar Heels won, 79-53, last year in Chapel Hill, the first ACC game between the teams. Ian Jackson led Carolina with 20 points. Seth Trimble went 6 for 6 from the line, scored 12 points and had three steals.
• UNC shot 56.7% from the floor in the first half to build a 10-point lead then went on a 15-0 run in the second half to pull away.
• The Tar Heels are 16-10 in California, including 1-0 against the Bears in Berkeley and 0-1 in Oakland.
• On 12/22/1972, the Tar Heels beat the Bears, 64-61, in Harmon Gym. Naismith Hall of Famer George Karl led the Tar Heels with 22 points and seven assists.
• On 12/29/1998, the Bears beat Carolina, 78-71, in the Pete Newell Challenge in the Oakland Arena. Brendan Haywood led UNC with 24 points and 12 rebounds. Geno Carlisle (29) and Thomas Kilgore (21) combined for 50 points for the Bears.

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 58-26 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 773-322 (.706) in regular-season ACC games. The 773 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 743.

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 17 points and nine rebounds and shoot 55% from the floor (research courtesy Jody Zeugner).
• Veesaar and Wilson are combining for 37.3 points and 19.9 rebounds per game. They have blocked 42 shots, have 80 assists, shot 61.5% from the floor and attempted 208 free throws.
• Wilson is averaging 19.9 points and 10.9 rebounds, while Veesaar is averaging 17.4 points and 9.0 rebounds.
• The last pair of Tar Heels to average at least 17 points in a season were Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) in 1983-84.
• Four times this season, including each of the last two games against Wake Forest and Stanford, both players have scored 20 points. Against the Deacs and Cardinal, Veesaar and Wilson have combined to shoot 37 for 47 from the floor. They have the highest combined field goal percentage (78.7%) for two players in consecutive games in UNC history among players with 20 or more field goal attempts. Veesaar made 18 of 22 and Wilson made 19 of 25 in the two games.
• Previously, the highest field goal percentage for two players in consecutive games was 76.4% by Larry Miller and Bobby Lewis against Ohio State and Richmond in December 1965.
• Combined, they have 19 double-doubles and scored 20 or more points 17 times.
• 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 55, while Veesaar is sixth with 37.
• Either Veesaar or Wilson has led the team in scoring and rebounding in 15 of the first 17 games.
• They account for 45.4% of Carolina's scoring, 48.6% of the rebounds, 47.9% of the field goals made and 50.2% of the free throw attempts.

DOUBLE TIME
• Caleb Wilson (11) and Henri Veesaar (8) rank fourth & 16th, 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 AWARDS CANDIDATE
• Caleb Wilson has quickly emerged as one of the most productive and engaging freshmen in Carolina Basketball history.
• Wilson is 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, and the USBWA's Oscar Roberston Trophy.
• He was also one of 15 players named to the Midseason Watch List for the Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year 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 12 times, including a season-high 26-point performance at Stanford. His 12 20-point games are the most by a freshman since Tyler Hansbrough set UNC's single-season rookie record with 14 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
Caleb Wilson, 2025-26 12
Rashad McCants, 2002-03 12
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 19.9 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.

SINGLE-SEASON SCORING, UNC FRESHMAN
19.9 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 10.9 rebounds per game. The UNC freshman record is 9.6 per game in 1995-96 by Jamison.

SINGLE-SEASON REBOUNDING, UNC FRESHMAN
10.9 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
9.7 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 55 dunks, five more than any other player (through January 17).
• He has scored in double figures in all 17 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 (17) 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 (11) and leads the ACC and is seventh in the nation in rebounds per game (10.9). He leads all freshmen nationally in double-doubles and is second in rebounding.
• 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.
• 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 (65.5%) and three-point accuracy (53.5%), is second in scoring (17.4)rebounding (9.0) and blocks (19).
• His field goal percentage is the fourth-highest in a season by a Tar Heel.

HIGHEST FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
SEASON (min. 100 made)
.697 Brendan Haywood, 1999-2000 (191x274)
.684 Ven-Allen Lubin, 2024-25 (134x196)
.668 Bobby Jones, 1971-72 (127x190)
.655 Henri Veesaar, 2025-26 (112x171)
.654 Rasheed Wallace, 1994-95 (238x364)

• He made 18 of 22 from the floor and averaged 25.5 points in the last two games.
• 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 ninth in the country in field goal shooting and fourth in the ACC and 16th nationally in double-doubles.
• Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (26 vs. ETSU and Stanford), 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 five times – 26 vs. ETSU and Stanford, 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 five times, which is tied with Jarin Stevenson for the team lead.

HENRI THE FIRST
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina's first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 23 for 43 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.535).
• He is second on the team in three-pointers, just one off the lead.
• 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 six three-pointers at Stanford. It was the sixth time in the last seven games (and eighth time this season) he made multiple threes in a game. That includes a career-high four vs. ECU and two seven times.

MISCELLANEOUS NUMBERS
• The Tar Heels have dropped to 21st in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 39.3% from the floor. They've held seven opponents below 35% and 10 under 40%.
• However, in the last three games, SMU, Wake Forest and Stanford have shot a combined 55.0% from the floor, making 99 of 180. The Mustangs. Deacons and Cardinal made a combined 44 of 90 from three-point range (48.9%).
• The opponents have tied the record for most three-pointers against UNC in two consecutive games (30) and set records for the most in three (44) and four consecutive (56) games.
• SMU, Wake Forest and Stanford shot better than 50% from the floor in five of the last six 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 (.393) is still the lowest allowed by Carolina since 2000-01, when the opponents shot 39.1%.
• 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 fourth in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (43.4%) and 11th in effective field goal percentage (45.6%).
• The opponents have shot under 40% from the floor in 18 of 34 halves.
• The Tar Heels held each of their first 14 opponents to fewer than 75 points. It was the first time Carolina held its 14 opponents under 75 points since 1981-82.
• Carolina is making 8.47 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)
8.47 in 2025-26 (144 in 17 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 25.1 three-pointers per game, which would easily break the previous school record of 23.9 in 2018-19. The Tar Heels average 25.1 three-point attempts, even though big men Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar attempt nearly 48% of all field goals.

MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
25.06 in 2025-26 (426 in 17 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 8.5 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 loss at Stanford when UNC shot 58.2% from the floor, Carolina has made 50% or better of its field goal attempts in nine of the first 17 games. It was just the second loss in the last five years when Carolina shot 50% or better. The Tar Heels are 43-2 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 102-26 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 1.67 is the best in UNC history (record is 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Carolina is second in the ACC and is 23rd in the nation in assist/turnover ratio.
• The Tar Heels force 9.6 turnovers per game. Carolina is 348th 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. CAL
(based on the previous game vs. Stanford)
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 161 college starts. That includes 53 by Kyan Evans, 40 by Jarin Stevenson, 29 by Trimble, 22 by Henri Veesaar, 17 by freshman Caleb Wilson.
• UNC has used three different starting lineups in the first 17 games. Evans, Wilson and Veesaar have started all 17 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 58-26 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, 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.

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).