• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).
• UNC and Notre Dame are enjoying for the primary time since 2/22/2023, a 63-59 Tar Heel highway win.
• The Tar Heels are 23-6, together with 15-3 within the ACC. Carolina is ranked No. 7 within the nation within the Related Press ballot, UNC’s eleventh straight top-10 rating and 702nd all-time.
• Carolina leads the ACC, one sport forward of Duke. UNC has secured a top-2 seed within the ACC Match. The Tar Heels will start play in Washington, D.C., within the quarterfinal spherical on Thursday, March 14 (time TBA).
• With a win over Notre Dame Carolina would clinch a minimum of a tie for the ACC regular-season championship, which might be the Tar Heels’ thirty third. UNC has gained the regular-season title outright 21 earlier instances and shared the title 11 instances.
• UNC final gained the ACC regular-season title in 2018-19, when it went 16-2 and shared the crown with Virginia.
• Armando Bacot shall be enjoying in his 162nd sport, which units the all-time ACC report. Virginia’s Kihei Clark performed in 161 from 2018-23.
• Seven Tar Heels shall be collaborating in Senior Evening ceremonies, which start at 6:42 p.m. These gamers embrace Bacot, RJ Davis, Duwe Farris, Rob Landry, Creighton Lebo, Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik.
• The Tar Heels are enjoying at dwelling for the third straight sport. UNC is 13-1 within the Smith Heart this season, together with 8-1 in ACC video games. A win would mark the 14th time UNC has gained 14 or extra video games in a season within the Smith Heart in its thirty ninth yr as UNC’s dwelling area.
• Carolina defeated NC State, 79-70, on March 2 behind a season-high 22 factors by Harrison Ingram and Elliot Cadeau’s 15 factors and 7 assists. The Tar Heels trailed by eight on the half and by 10 early within the second half earlier than making a 26-6 run to take its personal 10-point lead.
• Ingram has scored 20 or extra factors 5 instances this season – 22 vs. NC State, 21 vs. Duke and 20 vs. Villanova, Tennessee and UConn.
• RJ Davis had 5 assists vs. NC State. He leads the ACC in scoring at 21.7 factors per sport and has 100 assists this season. Charlie Scott (1967-68), Phil Ford (1977-78), Joseph Forte (2000-01) and Davis are the one Tar Heels to common 20 factors and have 100 assists in the identical season.
• Davis earned his fourth ACC Participant of the Week and Nationwide Participant of the Week awards for his play final week vs. Miami and NC State. He joins Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Forte, Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson and Joel Berry II as the one Tar Heels to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors a minimum of 4 instances in a season. No different participant within the league has gained ACC Participant of the Week greater than twice this season.
• Davis broke the Smith Heart scoring report with a career-high 42 factors final Monday and added 14 factors, seven rebounds and 5 assists vs. the Wolfpack.
• Carolina is 15-3 within the ACC, its greatest 18-game league report since ending 16-2 in 2018-19.
• Carolina’s greatest 20-game ACC report is 15-5 in 2021-22, Hubert Davis‘ first season as head coach.
• That is the third time UNC has gained a minimum of 15 regular-season ACC video games.
• The Tar Heels have gained 23 video games, this system’s sixty fourth season with 20 or extra wins.
• Hubert Davis and Invoice Guthridge (1997-2000) are the one Tar Heel head coaches to win 20 or extra video games in every of their first three seasons. Davis led Carolina to 29 wins and a berth within the nationwide championship sport in 2022 and 20 wins final season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 towards AP-ranked opponents this season with wins over No. 20 Arkansas, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 16 Clemson and No. 7 Duke (rankings when UNC performed these groups).
• ESPN ranks UNC’s energy of report No. 6 within the nation behind Purdue, Houston, UConn, Tennessee and Iowa State.
• Carolina’s schedule is ranked seventeenth within the nation by KenPom and twentieth by ESPN.
• Among the many 26 groups within the nation with 23 or extra wins, solely Purdue and Tennessee have stronger energy of schedules than UNC per ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are No. 6 within the nation in defensive effectivity (94.0 factors allowed per 100 possessions) and No. 26 in offensive effectivity (118.0 factors scored per 100 possessions).
• Total, KenPom ranks UNC No. 9 within the nation.
• Carolina is 7-2 this season on the highway (all in ACC play).
• The Tar Heels are certainly one of 5 groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12, Pac 12 and SEC with seven highway wins.
• From January 6-22, Carolina gained seven straight ACC video games by double digits, most since profitable 10 straight in 1992-93. UNC has 9 double-digit 9 wins in its 15 ACC wins and has a scoring margin of 9.6 in league play.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring and rebounding, is second in scoring margin and area objective protection and third in three-point protection.
• Carolina’s protection has held ACC opponents to 39.8% from the ground and 30.4% from three-point vary.
• The Tar Heels have held ACC opponents to 70 factors or under in 26 of the final 36 video games relationship again to final season.
• Carolina has out-rebounded its opponents in 18 straight video games and is plus 166 on the boards in these video games, 15 of which had been victories.
• Carolina’s 75-68 win at Florida State on January 27 was UNC’s 750th regular-season ACC win, turning into the primary program to win 750.
• Carolina has six gamers who’ve began 50 or extra school video games (160 by Armando Bacot, 114 by Cormac Ryan, 110 by RJ Davis, 91 by Harrison Ingram, 67 by Jae’Lyn Withers and 58 by Paxson Wojcik).
• The lineup UNC began towards NC State has began the final 22 video games. Elliott Cadeau, Ryan, Davis, Ingram and Bacot has a mixed 499 profession begins.
• The Tar Heels went 6-1 in November, 3-2 in December, 8-1 in January and the win over Miami capped a 5-2 report in February.
• Hubert Davis is certainly one of 15 candidates on the Atlanta Tipoff Membership/Naismith Award’s late-season watch listing for Nationwide Coach-of-the-12 months honors.
UNC-NOTRE DAME
• Carolina is 29-9 towards the Irish, together with 13-5 since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2013-14.
• The Tar Heels are 9-1 in Chapel Hill, together with 8-1 within the Smith Heart.
• Carolina gained each video games final yr. The Tar Heels have gained two in a row, 4 out of 5 and 11 of the final 13.
• The final time these groups performed was 2/22/2023 at Notre Dame, a 63-59 UNC victory. The Irish led, 27-19, on the half because the Tar Heels made simply 5 of 27 pictures from the ground within the opening 20 minutes. That was Carolina’s lowest share in a half since going 0 for two within the first half at Duke in 1979.
• Armando Bacot and Caleb Love led UNC with 16 factors. Love hit each of the Tar Heels’ three-pointers (UNC was 2 for 23).
• Carolina pounded the Irish on the glass with a rebound margin of 52-33. Bacot (11), Leaky Black (10) and Pete Nance (10) had double-figure rebounds.
• UNC had a season-high 23 offensive rebounds which led to a season-best 23 second-chance factors.
• Final yr in Chapel Hill (1/7/2023), Bacot had 21 factors and 13 rebounds and Love made three first-half 3FGs and scored 18.
• UNC led by 13 on the half however the Irish pulled inside seven at 61-54 earlier than RJ Davis scored 4 of the following seven factors to double the lead.
• UNC graduate scholar Cormac Ryan performed the earlier three seasons for Notre Dame. He was group captain every of the final three seasons for the Irish and scored 964 factors in 92 video games at Notre Dame. Ryan performed in 5 video games for Notre Dame towards UNC (and one sport for Stanford vs. UNC in 2018-19), together with twice for the Irish within the Smith Heart.
MILESTONE WATCH
• Armando Bacot has scored 2,216 factors, third most all-time by a Tar Heel … wants 75 to go Phil Ford (2,290) for second.
• Bacot handed Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress for 18th in ACC profession scoring within the NC State sport … he wants 10 to go Georgia Tech’s Matt Harpring (2,225) for seventeenth, 13 to go Virginia’s Ralph Sampson (2,228) for sixteenth and 18 to go UVA’s Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233) for fifteenth.
• Bacot has 1,635 rebounds, most ever by a Tar Heel and second most in ACC historical past … Bacot is twelfth in rebounds in NCAA historical past … he wants 39 to go Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried (1,673) for eleventh.
• Bacot is seventh in NCAA historical past with 82 double-doubles … Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons (83) are tied for fifth.
• Bacot handed Al Wooden in profession area objectives by a Tar Heel within the NC State sport … Bacot is third in with 827 … wants 39 area objectives to go Phil Ford (865) for third.
• RJ Davis has scored 1,926 factors, which is tenth in UNC historical past … wants 49 to go Antawn Jamison (1,974) for ninth.
• Davis wants 74 factors to develop into the eighth Tar Heel to attain 2,000 (Bacot did that earlier this season).
• Davis has the third-most factors by a Tar Heel guard … he wants 82 to go Charlie Scott (2,007).
• Davis has made 253 three-pointers, the third most all-time by a Tar Heel … Marcus Paige is first (299) and Joel Berry II is second (266).
• Davis has 404 assists … wants six to go Walter Davis (409) for seventeenth in UNC historical past.
• Harrison Ingram wants one steal for 100 profession steals.
• Cormac Ryan wants 27 factors for 1,500 profession factors.
AP POLL NOTES
• Carolina is No. 7 in week 18 within the Related Press ballot (launched on March 4).
• It’s the 954th time the Tar Heels are ranked within the AP ballot, the second most in school basketball historical past.
• It was the thirteenth time this season and 702nd time (third most) the AP ranked the Tar Heels within the prime 10.
• Carolina has performed the No. 2 (UConn), 4 (Tennessee), 9 (Duke) and 15 (Kentucky) groups on this week’s AP ballot.
• From November 24-December 20, 2023, UNC performed 5 consecutive non-conference video games towards ranked opponents for the primary time in UNC historical past. The Tar Heels performed Arkansas (twentieth), Tennessee (tenth), UConn (fifth), Kentucky (14th) and Oklahoma (seventh).