MBB On The Road Again At Syracuse Saturday

Saturday, February 21

Syracuse, N.Y.

1 p.m.

North Carolina

Syracuse

Seth Trimble

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

February 20, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 27: AT SYRACUSE
• Carolina returns to the road Saturday when the Tar Heels play in the JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse.
• Tip time is 1 p.m. on ABC (Kevin Brown, Jon Crispin).
• UNC is 20-6 overall, 8-5 in the ACC. The Orange are 15-12, 6-8.
• Both teams are coming off losses earlier this week. Duke beat the Orange, 101-64, in Durham on Monday, and NC State beat the Tar Heels, 82-58, in Raleigh on Tuesday.
• Syracuse is 12-4 in the Dome this season. Carolina is 3-5 on the road with wins at Kentucky, Virginia and Georgia Tech.
• The starting time for next Saturday's game against Virginia Tech has not yet been determined. It will be played at either 6:30 or 8:30 p.m.

HUBERT THE FIRST WITH FIVE
• Carolina's win over Pitt last Saturday was its 20th of the season.
• Hubert Davis became the first men's basketball coach in ACC history to win 20 or more game in each of his first five seasons.
• Only three other ACC coaches ever won 20 or more in their first four seasons (Duke's Jon Scheyer, NC State's Mark Gottfried and Wake Forest's Skip Prosser).
• Bill Guthridge won 20 or more in his only three seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
• Carolina has won 20 or more games a record 66 times (Duke is second with 60).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 18 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including nine 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 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).
• Carolina has beaten Kansas, Kentucky and Duke this season, the second time ever and first time since 1981-82 the Tar Heels have wins over those three teams in the same season.

TUESDAY IN RALEIGH
• Jarin Stevenson and Zayden High led UNC with 13 points apiece and High added a career-high 10 rebounds for his first double-double but the Wolfpack turned a dozen Tar Heel turnovers into 16 points in an 82-58 State victory.
• It was NC State's eighth win in the last 48 games in the series but its largest since 1962.
• The Tar Heels made 5 of 33 from three (1 for 16 in the first half) for 15.2%, their lowest percentage ever in a game they attempted 30 or more three-pointers.
• Carolina fell to 20-7 vs. NC State in the Lenovo Center.

IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN
• The Tar Heels played NC State without Caleb Wilson (hand) and Henri Veesaar (lower extremity), the second-straight game both players did not play.
• The Pitt and NC State games were just the second and third game ever that Carolina played without both of its top-two scorers.
• The only other game UNC played without it top-two scorers was 2/23/1978, a 72-67 loss at NC State. Phil Ford (wrist) and Mike O'Koren (ankle) missed that game with injuries.
• Through the February 10 game at Miami, Veesaar and Wilson accounted for 44.2% of the Tar Heels' scoring and 46.9% of the team's rebounds.
• Carolina's top three scorers (Wilson, Veesaar and Seth Trimble) have now missed games due to injury or illness. The last time UNC's top three scorers all missed games due to injury or illness was 2019-20, when Cole Anthony missed 11 games, Garrison Brooks missed one and Brandon Robinson sat out nine.

UNC-SYRACUSE
• Carolina beat the Orange, 87-77, in Chapel Hill on February 2.
• The Orange are the only ACC team other than Duke the Tar Heels play home-and-home this season.
• Carolina is 19-7 all-time vs. Syracuse, including 15-4 since the Orange joined the ACC.
• The Tar Heels are 6-3 against Syracuse in the JMA Wireless Dome (formerly the Carrier Dome), including an 88-82 win on 2/15/2025.
• Including eight NCAA Tournament games in four seasons (1983-1991-1997-2005), the Tar Heels are 13-4 in the JMA Wireless Dome.

FEBRUARY 2 IN CHAPEL HILL
• Caleb Wilson led Carolina 22 points and Henri Veesaar had 17 points, a game-high 11 boards and also led UNC with four assists.
• Jonathan Powell tied his season high with three 3FGs and scored 12 points.
• Carolina led by as many as 32 points (72-40) with 9:39 to play.
• The Orange outscored the Tar Heels, 37-15, over the final 9:38, pulling to within six at 83-77 with 42 seconds to play.

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 64-29 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 779-325 (.706) in regular-season ACC games. The 779 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 750.

JARIN GETTING IT DONE
• Junior forward Jarin Stevenson has scored in double figures in each of the last three games, the first three-game double-figure streak in his 100-game collegiate career.
• The 6-10 junior from Chapel Hill is 16 for 24 from the floor and totaled 45 points in the last three games. He was 6 for 10 from the floor and had 13 points at Miami, made 6 of 7 shots and had 19 against Pitt and 4 of 7 at NC State.
• He has led the Tar Heels in scoring in all three games, the first three times he has done that.
• He scored in double figures three times in the first 19 games and four times in the last seven games. That includes a 17-point effort at Virginia, where he scored all of his points in the second half in leading the Tar Heels to a win after trailing by 16.
• Stevenson is 10 for 23 from three in the last eight games and 32 for 38 (84.2%) from the free throw line in the last 14 games.

CALEB & HENRI
• The Naismith Hall of Fame named Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson to the Midseason Top 10 lists for their respective positional awards (Veesaar for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center Award and Wilson for the Karl Malone Power Forward Award).
• Wilson is averaging 19.8 points and 9.4 rebounds, while Veesaar is averaging 16.4 points and 9.0 rebounds.
• The last pair of Tar Heels to average 16 points and nine rebounds in a season was Doug Moe and Lee Shaffer in 1959-60.
• Combined, they have 24 double-doubles and scored 20 or more points 23 times.

WILSON: MIDSEASON AWARDS CANDIDATE
• Caleb Wilson is on the Late-Season Watch Lists for the John R. Wooden National Player of the Year and Naismith Trophy. He was a mid-season candidate for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year, Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year, USBWA's Oscar Robertson Trophy and Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year awards.
• 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 (from Georgetown through Florida State). The previous record was five by Phil Ford in 1974-75.
• Wilson had another five-game streak of 20-point games ended in the loss at Miami. He is the only UNC freshman with two streaks of five or more 20-point games.
• Wilson has scored 20 or more points 17 times, including a season-high 26 at Stanford. His 17 20-point games have already surpassed Tyler Hansbrough's previous UNC single-season rookie record. Hansbrough scored 20 or more 14 times in earning first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in 2005-06.
• Wilson, Hansbrough, Rashad McCants and Ford are the only UNC freshmen with 10 or more 20-point games.

20-Point Games by a UNC Freshman
Caleb Wilson, 2025-26 17
Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06 14
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 and is second in assists and field goal percentage.
• His scoring average of 19.8 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.

SINGLE-SEASON SCORING, UNC FRESHMAN
19.8 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) have led UNC in scoring as freshman.
• Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) have led UNC in rebounding as a freshman.
• Wilson is averaging 9.4 rebounds, second-most by a UNC freshman behind only Jamison.

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

• He scored in double figures in the first 24 games and has 11 double-doubles, the second-most by a Carolina freshman. He had 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 is third in the ACC in double-doubles, fourth in scoring and fifth in field goal percentage and double-doubles.
• Wilson and Duke's Cameron Boozer are the only players in the top five in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and double-doubles.
• 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.

VEESAAR MAKING A MAJOR IMPACT
• Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar, a transfer from Arizona, leads the team in field goal shooting (61.5%) and three-point accuracy (44.8%) and is second in scoring (16.4), rebounding (9.0) and blocks (29).
• He nearly had a double-double in the second half in the win over Duke. In the first half, Duke built a 41-29 lead as Veesaar was 0 for 2 from the floor, scoreless, had two rebounds and was minus 20. However, in the second half, he made six of seven shots from the floor, scored 13 points, pulled down nine rebounds, hit the game-tying three-pointer with 1:40 to play and was a plus 15.
• Veesaar leads the ACC and is 13th in the country with 13 double-doubles, the first 13 of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He is second in the ACC and 20th nationally in field goal percentage. He's also fifth in the ACC in rebounding and 11th in points per game.
• 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.
• He has scored in double figures in 23 of his 24 games (all except Virginia, where he had seven).
• 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 six times – 26 vs. ETSU and Stanford, 25 vs. Wake Forest, 24 vs. the Bonnies, 20 vs. Kansas and 20 at Georgia Tech. He had one 20-point game in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 285 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus seven times. He and Jarin Stevenson have led seven times apiece.
• Veesaar has eight games where he was plus 20 or higher.

HENRI FROM 3
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina's first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 30 for 67 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.448).
• He is third on the team in three-pointers.
• 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 has made two or more three-pointers eight times this season, including a career-high four vs. ECU.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
• Offensively, the Tar Heels are 12th in the country in assist/turnover ratio, 12th in turnover percentage, 16th in turnovers, 30th in offensive efficiency and 48th in assists per game.
• The Tar Heels are 46th in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 41.3% from the floor. They've held seven opponents below 35% and 11 under 40%.
• UNC is 11-0 this season and 56-4 under head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents under 40% from the floor and 0-4 this season and 6-19 under Davis when the opponents make 50%.
• The Tar Heel defense is 11th in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (45.2%) and 38th in effective field goal percentage (47.5%).

THREES
• Carolina is making 8.54 three-pointers per game, on pace for the second-highest average in a season behind only 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
• Over the last seven games, Carolina has made 60 threes and allowed 48.
• Five different Tar Heels have made at least 29 three-pointers – Luka Bogavac (41), Derek Dixon (32), Henri Veesaar (30), Jonathan Powell (30) and Kyan Evans (29).

MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 games)
8.54 in 2025-26 (222 in 26 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 25.5 three-pointers per game, which would break the previous school record of 23.9 in 2018-19.
• The Tar Heels attempted a season-high 34 threes against Notre Dame and made a season-best 13 vs. the Irish on January 21.

MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
25.46 in 2025-26 (662 in 26 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 7.9. 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 3FGs one time (in 2012-13).
• The loss at Miami ended a streak of 22 straight games the Tar Heels won when they made more three-pointers than their opponent.

TURNOVERS
• UNC is averaging 9.38 turnovers, its fewest ever (previous low is 10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels have committed fewer than five turnovers three times in the last seven games, including four at Virginia, two at Georgia Tech and four vs. Pitt.
• In the last two losses against at Miami and NC State, the Tar Heels committed 11 and 12 turnovers, respectively.
• Carolina has committed 10 or more turnovers in each of the last five losses.
• This is the first time UNC ever had three games in one season with four or fewer turnovers. The 2014-15 Tar Heels had two games with four or fewer; in no other season has UNC had more than one.
• Including this season, Hubert Davis' teams have produced the four-lowest turnover per game averages and five of the six-lowest in UNC history.
• The Tar Heels force 9.5 turnovers per game. Carolina is 342nd in the nation in forced turnovers. The opponents' 9.5 turnovers are the fewest forced in a season by the Tar Heels (previous 9.7 in 2021-22).

ASSIST/TURNOVERS
• Carolina's assist/turnover ratio of 1.76 is the best in UNC history (previous 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Every player on the team who plays at least 10 minutes a game has more assists than turnovers.
• The Tar Heels are on track to make this the first season when every player who averages double-figure minutes has more assists than turnovers since turnovers were officially recorded beginning in 1979-80.
• Among the eight players who average 10 or more minutes, Jonathan Powell has the best assist/turnover ratio (2.75). He is followed by Kyan Evans (2.45) Luka Bogavac (2.26), and Derek Dixon (2.23).
• Caleb Wilson has 64 assists and 47 turnovers (1.36) and Henri Veesaar has 48 assists and 37 turnovers (1.30). They are the first Tar Heels to average 9.0 or more rebounds and have more assists than turnovers since Luke Maye in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Maye is the only Tar Heel to accomplish that.

WINS VS. LOSSES
• Notable statistical comparisons between Carolina's 20 wins and the six losses:
• UNC averages 83.5 points in the wins and 72.2 in the losses.
• The Tar Heels allow 66.8 points in the wins and 84.5 points in the losses.
• The opponents are shooting 52.2% from the floor, including 49.2% from three, in the six losses and 38.2/30.5 in Carolina's 20 wins.
• The Tar Heels have a rebound margin of 5.9 in the wins and have the same number of rebounds as the opponents in the losses.
• Carolina makes 1.7 more three-pointers than the opponents in the wins, while the opponents have averaged 2.9 more in the losses. The Tar Heels have been outscored by a total of 51 points from three in the six losses.

500+ WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER
• This is the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC's 500th in the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 504-90 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 84.8% 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.
• Carolina is 263-71 (.787) in ACC games in the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have won 15 straight games in the Smith Center, all this season.
• UNC has played 46.5% of its home games in the Smith Center (594 of 1,278).
• 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 504 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 three times this season. He was one of five players named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9, he won the award from Andy Katz at NCAA March Madness for this play the week of December 15-21 and the Naismith Trophy tabbed him for his play against Syracuse and Duke.
• Wilson also was named ACC Freshman of the Week three times, following the games against Central Arkansas/Kansas, ETSU/Ohio State and Syracuse/Duke.
• He is the first Tar Heel to win three ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Coby White was a five-time recipient in 2018-19.
• Wilson also was the ACC's Co-Player of the Week after Central Arkansas and Kansas.
• 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), White (2019) and Anthony.

CAROLINA-DUKE A RATINGS HIT
• The Tar Heels' 71-68 win over Duke on February 7 was ESPN's most watched college men's basketball game in the last four seasons.
• The game drew an average of 3.5 million viewers with a peak of 4.8 million.

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 head coach in ACC men's basketball history to win 20 or more games in each of his first five 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, 120 wins, a 64-29 record and 26 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 five 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 18 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including nine 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, No. 9 Duke in 2024 and No. 4 Duke in 2025).

2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES
• The Tar Heels played 10 home games prior to New Year's Day for the first time since 2009-10.
• In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to Florida State, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Duke, Pitt, Louisville (Feb. 23), Virginia Tech (Feb. 28) and Clemson (March 3).
• Carolina plays at SMU, Stanford, Cal, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State, 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 made 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 (Phoenix), 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 (Charlotte).
• 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).

RJ HONORED ON MONDAY
• RJ Davis, the 2024 ACC Player of the Year, will have his No. 4 jersey raised to the rafters at halftime of Monday's game against Louisville.
• Davis is the 54th player to have his number retired or honored (his is the 46th honored jersey). He qualified under the current criteria as ACC Player of the Year and a first-team All-America, an honor he also unanimously earned in 2024.
• Davis is averaging 19.9 points and 5.7 assists while shooting 46.2% from three for the South Bay Lakers.
• His honors, awards and records at Carolina include:
– 2024 unanimous first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC (second-team All-ACC in 2025)
– 2024 ACC Player of the Year
– 2024 Jerry West Award as the Best Shooting Guard in the Country
– Three-time winner of UNC's Dean Smith Award (Most Valuable Player)
– helped lead UNC to the 2022 Final Four and national championship game appearance (he scored 18 points in the national semifinal win over Duke)
– UNC career record for points by a guard (2,725)
– UNC career record for three-pointers (359)
– Smith Center scoring record 42 points vs. Miami, February 26, 2024
– UNC single-season scoring record by a guard (784 points in 2023-24)
– UNC single-season records for three-pointers (113) and most three-pointers per game (3.05) in 2023-24
– Second in career scoring by a Tar Heel and third in ACC history
– UNC career record for highest free throw percentage (86.1%)
– UNC-record 23 consecutive games with multiple three-pointers
– Tied UNC record for consecutive free throws made (41)
– ACC-record 175 games played
– ACC-record 140 games scoring in double figures
– Only Tar Heel with 2,500 points, 600 rebounds, 500 assists, 300 three-pointers and 175 steals
– Only Tar Heel with 10+ assists in one NCAA Tournament game and 30+ points in the next

• In addition to honoring Davis at halftime, Carolina will welcome back former football coach Mack Brown on Monday, and celebrate team and individual awards won by the field hockey and women's lacrosse teams.
• The field hockey team won the 2025 ACC championship (its school-record 28th) and made its NCAA-record 29th appearance in the Final Four.
• Field hockey senior Ryleigh Heck's number 12 will be retired. Heck was the National Player of the Year in 2023, when she led the Tar Heels to their 11th NCAA title.
• Women's lacrosse's Chloe Humphrey was the consensus National Player of the Year in 2025. Humphrey led the Tar Heels to an NCAA championship last spring.
• The men's basketball team will be wearing pregame warm-up shirts designed by students at Hargraves Community Center. The team visited Hargraves in January and worked with students to design the shirts on tablets given to the center by Lenovo.