Men’s Basketball Hosting Virginia Tech Saturday Night
• Carolina closes out the month of February on Saturday when it hosts Virginia Tech at 8:30 p.m.
• This is the penultimate dwelling recreation of the season. The Tar Heels are 16-0 within the Dean E. Smith Center. They host the Hokies on Saturday and Clemson at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, on Senior Night earlier than heading to Duke for the regular-season finale on March 7.
• Note: parking passes printed for the Clemson recreation listed a 9 p.m. begin. Those passes have been printed earlier than the gametime was modified to 7 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 22-6 general, tied for fourth at 10-5 within the ACC, whereas the Hokies are 18-10, 7-8.
• Carolina is one dwelling win from tying probably the most wins within the Smith Center in a season (17-1 in 2011-12). This is already the third time UNC has received no less than 16 video games within the Smith Center in a season (17 in 2011-12 and 16 in 2006-07).
• This is the primary time UNC has began a season 16-0 within the Smith Center (the 2004-05, 2010-11 and 2016-17 groups completed the yr 15-0 within the Smith Center. The 2016-17 staff additionally received a house recreation within the Greensboro Coliseum).
• ESPN will televise Saturday’s recreation with Wes Durham and Dennis Scott calling the motion.
UNC-Virginia Tech is one in every of 10 straight video games the place the Tar Heels will seem on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC to finish the common season.
• Carolina will play with out main scorer and rebounder Caleb Wilson for the fifth straight recreation. The 6-10 freshman ahead from Atlanta broke a bone in his left hand at Miami on February 10. Despite Wilson’s absence, the Tar Heels have received three of the earlier 4 video games.
• Five Tar Heels have averaged 10 or extra factors within the final 4 video games, together with Seth Trimble (16.5), Henri Veesaar (15.5), Luka Bogavac (12.3), Jarin Stevenson (12.0) and Zayden High (10.3). Veesaar missed the primary two of these 4 video games because of sickness and a decrease extremity subject.
• The Tar Heels are 18th within the Associated Press ballot (launched previous to the 77-74 win over Louisville Monday night time) and twenty seventh within the NET.
• Carolina has six Quad 1 wins within the NET and has defeated 4 groups presently ranked greater within the NET – Duke (1), Virginia (13), Kansas (14) and Louisville (16).
• Duke and Virginia, the highest two groups within the ACC standings, are a mixed 27-3 in ACC play and 51-5 general. The Tar Heels have two of the three wins towards the Blue Devils and Cavaliers in league play. Carolina is the one staff to win in Charlottesville this season.
• The Tar Heels have performed 14 of 28 video games this season with all three of their high scorers within the lineup. UNC is 11-3 in these 14 video games.
• UNC went 8-1 with out Trimble, who missed 9 video games from November 11-December 16, 1-1 towards Pitt and NC State with out Veesaar and Wilson and 2-0 with out simply Wilson (wins over Syracuse and Louisville).
• Senior guard Seth Trimble scored a career-high 30 factors (11 of 16 from the ground) and Carolina held Louisville to 38.8% taking pictures in Monday’s win over the Twenty fourth-ranked Cardinals. Louisville led by 10 early however the Tar Heels shot 60.7% within the first half and Trimble scored 16 first-half factors to take a one-point lead on the break.
• In the second half, UNC constructed its result in 16 then held on for its third one-possession win at dwelling this season (Wake Forest and Duke).
• It was the fourth time this season the Tar Heels trailed by double digits and received (trailed Kansas by 10, Virginia by 16, Duke by 13 and Louisville by 10).
• It was the twenty eighth straight time the Tar Heels received when holding the opponent underneath 40.0% from the ground.
• UNC shot a season-low 47.4% from the free throw line, the second recreation in a row UNC set a season low from the road.
UNC-VIRGINIA TECH
• The Tar Heels are 74-17 all-time towards the Hokies, together with 21-7 since Virginia Tech joined the ACC within the 2004-05 season.
• Carolina is 34-6 all-time in Chapel Hill, 9-1 within the Smith Center.
• UNC has received two in a row general and 9 straight at dwelling.
• The groups met as soon as final season, a 91-59 Tar Heel victory in Blacksburg. Carolina shot 58.9% from the ground (64% within the second half) and made 15 three-pointers, which equaled probably the most by a Hubert Davis-coached staff.
WITHOUT CALEB
• Carolina’s fabulous freshman Caleb Wilson performed within the first 24 video games earlier than struggling a hand harm that has sidelined him the final 4 video games.
• With Wilson, the Tar Heels went 19-5, averaged 81.9 factors (82.5 in ACC play), shot 47.7% from the ground, have been a plus 5.1 in rebound margin and shot 68.8% from the road (Wilson tried 32.4% of the staff’s free throws and was taking pictures 71.3%).
• The Tar Heels are 3-1 with out Wilson. In these video games, Carolina is averaging 72.8 factors, shot 45.7% from the ground, has been outrebounded by 2.0 per recreation and is taking pictures 62.4% from the road.
• In the primary 24 video games, three Tar Heels have been averaging double figures – Wilson (19.8), Henri Veesaar (16.4) and Seth Trimble (13.5). In the final 4 video games, 5 Tar Heels are averaging double figures, led by Trimble’s 16.5 per recreation.
• In Wilson’s final six video games (UNC was 5-1), the Tar Heels have been seventeenth within the nation in offensive effectivity and 56th defensively. In the final 4 video games, Carolina is 86th in offensive effectivity and forty ninth defensively.
HUBERT THE FIRST WITH FIVE
• With 22 wins this season, Carolina has received 20 or extra video games an ACC-record 66 occasions (Duke is second with 60).
• Nationally, Kentucky is first with 68 20-win seasons (the Wildcats enter Saturday 18-10). UNC is second and Duke is third.
• Hubert Davis is the primary males’s basketball coach in ACC historical past to win 20 or extra video games in every of his first 5 seasons.
• Only three different ACC coaches ever received 20 or extra of their first 4 seasons (Duke’s Jon Scheyer, NC State’s Mark Gottfried and Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser).
• Bill Guthridge received 20 or extra in his solely three seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 19 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, together with 9 top-10 groups (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 crushed Kansas, Kentucky and Duke this season, the second time ever and first time since 1981-82 the Tar Heels have wins over these three groups in the identical season.
CAROLINA & THE ACC
• This is the 73rd season of competitors within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels have been a constitution member of the league, which started play within the 1953-54 season.
• Carolina is the one college with 50 or extra mixed ACC males’s basketball championships (33 common season and 18 Tournament). Duke is second with 44 (21 common season and 23 Tournament) and NC State is subsequent with 18 (seven common season and 11 Tournament).
• Hubert Davis is 66-29 in regular-season ACC video games. Only one different staff has extra ACC wins within the final 5 seasons.
• Davis led the Tar Heels to ACC data of 15-5, 11-9, 17-3 and 13-7 within the earlier 4 seasons. The 2023-24 staff received the regular-season title, Carolina’s thirty third.
• Carolina is 781-325 (.706) in regular-season ACC video games. The 781 wins are probably the most in ACC historical past. Duke is second with 751.
SETH’S 30-PIECE
• Senior guard Seth Trimble made a career-high 11 discipline objectives (11 for 16) and scored a career-best 30 factors within the Tar Heels’ win over Louisville.
• It was probably the most factors by a Tar Heel this season and first 30-point recreation since RJ Davis had 30 in Maui towards Dayton final season. Ironically, Trimble’s earlier profession excessive (27) got here in that very same recreation, a 92-90 win over the Flyers.
• Trimble is averaging a career-high 14.2 factors this season, a rise of two.6 per recreation from final season. He averaged 1.8 as a freshman, 5.2 as a sophomore and 11.6 as a junior.
• The 30-point effort towards the Cardinals was his third recreation this season with 20 or extra factors. He had 20 towards Florida State and 22 at SMU within the Tar Heels’ first two ACC video games.
• It was the primary 30-point recreation by a Tar Heel within the Smith Center since RJ Davis set the world report with 42 vs. Miami on 2/26/2024.
• The Louisville recreation was the second this season Trimble was KenPom’s MVP (additionally at Virginia).
WILSON REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
• 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 a right away impression on the Tar Heel report guide, changing into the primary freshman to attain 20 or extra factors in six consecutive video games (from Georgetown via Florida State). The earlier report was 5 by Phil Ford in 1974-75.
• Wilson had one other five-game streak of 20-point video games ended within the loss at Miami. He is the one UNC freshman with two streaks of 5 or extra 20-point video games.
• Wilson has scored 20 or extra factors 17 occasions, together with a season-high 26 at Stanford. His 17 20-point video games have already surpassed Tyler Hansbrough’s earlier UNC single-season rookie report. Hansbrough scored 20 or extra 14 occasions in incomes first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in 2005-06.
• Wilson, Hansbrough, Rashad McCants and Ford are the one UNC freshmen with 10 or extra 20-point video 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 tried) and blocks and is second in assists and discipline objective share.
• His scoring common of 19.8 factors per recreation is on tempo to set the UNC freshman report.
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 one Tar Heel freshman to steer the staff in each scoring and rebounding. He additionally led the staff as a freshman in steals. No Tar Heel freshman has ever led the staff 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 solely 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 within the first 24 video games and has 11 double-doubles, the second-most by a Carolina freshman. He had 12 or extra rebounds in 10 of his 11 double-doubles, together with a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.
Double-Doubles by a UNC Freshman
(all factors 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 second within the ACC in rebounding, third in double-doubles, fourth in scoring and fifth in discipline objective share.
• Wilson and Duke’s Cameron Boozer are the one gamers within the high 5 in scoring, rebounding, discipline objective share and double-doubles.
• Wilson set a UNC freshman report with 4 consecutive double-doubles towards Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Bacot (twice), Jamison and O’Koren have been the one Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row.
VEESAAR MAKING ACC HISTORY
• Red-shirt junior heart Henri Veesaar, a switch from Arizona, leads the staff in discipline objective taking pictures (61.4%) and three-point accuracy (43.1%) and is second in scoring (16.3), rebounding (8.5) and blocks (32).
• Veesaar might turn into the primary participant in ACC males’s basketball historical past to dam 30 pictures, make 30 three-pointers and shoot 60% from the ground in a season. He enters the Virginia Tech recreation with 32 blocks, 31 threes and is taking pictures 61.4% from the ground.
• Veesaar is one in every of solely seven Tar Heels to make 30 three-pointers and block 30 pictures in the identical season. The listing contains Jerry Stackhouse in 1994-95, Vince Carter in 1997-98, Jawad Williams in 2002-03, Danny Green in 2007-08 and 2008-09, Luke Maye in 2017-18, Pete Nance in 2022-23 and Veesaar.
• Veesaar is sixteenth within the nation 49 dunks. He is one in every of two gamers within the nation with 45 or extra dunks and 30 or extra three-pointers (Marshall’s Wyatt Hicks is the opposite).
• The Estonia native almost had a double-double within the second half within the win over Duke. In the primary half, Duke constructed a 41-29 lead as Veesaar was 0 for two from the ground, scoreless, had two rebounds and was minus 20. However, within the second half, he made six of seven pictures from the ground, scored 13 factors, pulled down 9 rebounds, hit the game-tying three-pointer with 1:40 to play and was a plus 15.
• Veesaar is second within the ACC and sixteenth within the nation with 13 double-doubles, the primary 13 of his collegiate profession. He performed in 66 video games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He can also be second within the ACC and twentieth nationally in discipline objective share, fifth within the ACC in rebounding and eleventh in factors per recreation.
• He has scored in double figures in 25 of his 26 video games (besides Virginia, when he scored seven).
• Veesaar has set quite a few profession bests as a Tar Heel, together with factors (26 vs. ETSU and Stanford), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown), offensive rebounds (six vs. Florida State), blocks (5 vs. NC Central), assists (5 vs. Ohio State) and three-pointers (4 vs. ECU).
• He has scored 20 or extra factors six occasions – 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 recreation in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 314 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus eight occasions, probably the most on the staff.
HENRI FROM 3
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina’s first 7-footer ever to make a number of three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 31 for 72 from three and leads the staff in three-point share (.431).
• He is tied for fourth on the staff in three-pointers.
• Prior to this season, two 7-footers made one three apiece. Serge Zwikker made a 3 within 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 extra three-pointers eight occasions this season, together with a career-high 4 vs. ECU.
NATIONAL RANKINGS
• Offensively, the Tar Heels are fifteenth in turnovers and turnover share, sixteenth within the nation in help/turnover ratio and thirty third in offensive effectivity.
• The Tar Heels are forty third within the nation in discipline objective share protection, holding their opponents to a mixed 41.2% from the ground. They’ve held seven opponents under 35% and 12 underneath 40%.
• Including the win over Louisville, UNC is 12-0 this season and 57-4 underneath head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents underneath 40% from the ground. By distinction, Carolina is 0-4 this season and 6-19 underneath Davis when the opponents make 50%.
• The Tar Heel protection is twelfth within the nation in two-point discipline objective share protection (45.4%) and thirty third in efficient discipline objective share (47.5%).
• Louisville got here into the sport taking pictures 60.1% on two-point discipline objective makes an attempt, however the Tar Heels held the Cardinals to 46.2% from contained in the arc.
THREES
• Carolina is making 8.43 three-pointers per recreation, on tempo for the second-highest common in a season behind solely 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
• Five totally different Tar Heels have made no less than 30 three-pointers – Luka Bogavac (43), Derek Dixon (35), Jonathan Powell (32), Henri Veesaar (31) and Kyan Evans (31).
MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 video games)
8.43 in 2025-26 (236 in 28 video games)
8.41 in 2021-22 (328 in 39 video games)
8.29 in 2002-03 (290 in 35 video games)
8.25 in 1982-83 (132 in 16 video games – ACC video games solely)
• Carolina is making an attempt 25.0 three-pointers per recreation, which might break the earlier college report of 23.9 in 2018-19.
• UNC is on tempo to aim extra three-pointers than free throws for the second time ever. The Tar Heels have launched 700 threes and tried 643 free throws. This could be the primary season since 2001-02 once they take extra threes than free throws.
• The Tar Heels tried a season-high 34 threes towards Notre Dame and made a season-best 13 vs. the Irish on January 21.
MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
25.00 in 2025-26 (700 in 28 video games)
23.94 in 2018-19 (862 in 36 video games)
23.49 in 2021-22 (916 in 39 video games)
23.49 in 2002-03 (822 in 35 video games)
22.95 in 2017-18 (849 in 37 video games)
• The Tar Heels are making 8.4 threes per recreation whereas permitting 7.9. UNC is in on monitor to make extra 3FG than its opponents for the fifth consecutive yr. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made extra 3FGs one time (in 2012-13).
TURNOVERS
• UNC is averaging 9.39 turnovers, its fewest ever (earlier low is 10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels have dedicated fewer than 5 turnovers 3 times this season (4 at Virginia, two at Georgia Tech and 4 vs. Pitt). This is the primary time UNC ever had three video games in a single season with 4 or fewer turnovers. The 2014-15 Tar Heels had two video games with 4 or fewer; in no different season did UNC have multiple.
• Carolina has turned the ball over fewer than 10 occasions in 12 of 28 video games (the Tar Heels have received 11 straight and are 11-1 in these 12 video games).
• Carolina has dedicated 10 or extra turnovers in every of the final 5 losses.
• Including this season, Hubert Davis‘ groups have produced the four-lowest turnover per recreation averages and 5 of the six-lowest in UNC historical past.
• The Tar Heels drive 9.5 turnovers per recreation. Carolina is 339th within the nation in compelled turnovers. The opponents’ 9.5 turnovers are the fewest compelled in a season by the Tar Heels (earlier 9.7 in 2021-22).
ASSIST/TURNOVERS
• Carolina’s help/turnover ratio of 1.72 is the perfect in UNC historical past (earlier 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Every participant on the staff who performs no less than 10 minutes a recreation has extra assists than turnovers.
• The Tar Heels are on monitor to make this the primary season when each participant who averages double-figure minutes has extra assists than turnovers since turnovers have been formally recorded starting in 1979-80.
• Among the eight gamers who common 10 or extra minutes, Kyan Evans has the perfect help/turnover ratio (2.47). He is adopted by Jonathan Powell (2.44) Luka Bogavac (2.37) and Derek Dixon (2.18).
• Caleb Wilson has 64 assists and 47 turnovers (1.36). He is the primary Tar Heel to common 9.0 or extra rebounds and have extra assists than turnovers since Luke Maye in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Maye is the one Tar Heel to perform that.
WINS VS. LOSSES
• Notable statistical comparisons between Carolina’s 22 wins and 6 losses:
• UNC averages 82.9 factors within the wins and 72.2 within the losses.
• The Tar Heels permit 67.0 factors within the wins and 84.5 factors within the losses.
• The opponents are taking pictures 52.2% from the ground, together with 49.2% from three, within the six losses and 38.4/30.5 in Carolina’s 22 wins.
• The Tar Heels have a rebound margin of 5.1 within the wins and have the identical variety of rebounds because the opponents within the losses.
• Carolina makes 1.4 extra three-pointers than the opponents within the wins, whereas the opponents have averaged 2.9 extra within the losses. The Tar Heels have been outscored by a complete of 51 factors from three within the six losses.
500+ WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER
• This is the forty first season the Tar Heels are taking part in within the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC’s five hundredth within the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 505-90 in regular-season and NIT video games within the Smith Center.
• UNC grew to become the ninth present ACC staff with 500 or extra wins of their respective dwelling venues.
• Carolina has received 84.9% of its video games within the Smith Center. Only one staff within the ACC that has 500 or extra wins in its present venue has a better profitable share.
• Carolina is 264-71 (.788) in ACC video games within the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have received 16 straight video games within the Smith Center, all this season.
• The 16-game profitable streak is the longest within the Smith Center since a 22-game streak that started 2/20/2016 and ended 12/20/2017.
• UNC has performed 46.5% of its dwelling video games within the Smith Center (595 of 1,279).
• Carolina has performed 154 totally different opponents in regular-season or NIT video games within the Smith Center.
• The Smith Center is the fifth dwelling venue for the Tar Heels. Carolina has received 505 video games and 4 NCAA titles within the Smith Center, 210 video games and one NCAA title in Woollen Gym (1939-65), 170 video games and one NCAA title in Carmichael Auditorium (1965-86, 2010), 130 within the Indoor Athletic Court (1924-38) and 63 in Bynum Gym (1911-23).
IN-SEASON AWARDS
• Freshman ahead Caleb Wilson has earned National Player-of-the-Week honors 3 times this season. He was one in every of 5 gamers named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9, he received 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 towards Syracuse and Duke.
• Wilson additionally was named ACC Freshman of the Week 3 times, following the video games towards Central Arkansas/Kansas, ETSU/Ohio State and Syracuse/Duke.
• He is the primary Tar Heel to win three ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Coby White was a five-time recipient in 2018-19.
• Wilson additionally was the ACC’s Co-Player of the Week after Central Arkansas and Kansas.
• Wilson was the primary Tar Heel freshman to additionally win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
• Wilson grew to become the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, becoming a member of 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 school males’s basketball recreation within the final 4 seasons.
• The recreation drew a median of three.5 million viewers with a peak of 4.8 million.
PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL
• The Tar Heels have been picked to complete third within the 18-team Atlantic Coast Conference by the media on the ACC’s preseason media day in Charlotte.
• Caleb Wilson was voted to the league’s preseason All-ACC second staff and the All-Freshman staff.
• UNC was picked No. 25 within the nation within the Associated Press preseason ballot.
• This is the 69th totally different season within the 78-year historical past of the AP ballot the Tar Heels have been ranked at any level within the AP ballot.
HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE
• The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis‘ fifth as head coach on the University of North Carolina and his 14th on the teaching employees at his alma mater.
• He is the one head coach in ACC males’s basketball historical past to win 20 or extra video games in every of his first 5 seasons.
• Davis, 55 (turns 56 on May 17, 2026), has received National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a nationwide title recreation look, 120 wins, a 66-29 report and 27 highway wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed within the NCAA Tournament. Only one different staff has received extra ACC video games within the final 5 years.
• Two of his gamers – RJ Davis and Armando Bacot – rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set quite a few data and earned nationwide and All-ACC awards.
• Carolina received its one hundredth recreation underneath Davis within the 2025 ACC Tournament, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC historical past and the sixth-fastest in ACC historical past to win 100 video 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 video games than Davis (who received his one hundredth in 143 video games).
• Under Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Tournament play, together with wins towards three nationwide championship-winning coaches (Baylor’s Scott Drew, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) and three different coaches who’ve taken groups 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 19 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, together with 9 over top-10 groups (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 2026).
2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES
• The Tar Heels performed 10 dwelling video games previous to New Year’s Day for the primary time since 2009-10.
• UNC was not scheduled to play Boston College.
• This is the primary time since 1919 the Tar Heels aren’t taking part in NC State in Chapel Hill.
• The Tar Heels performed Kansas in Chapel Hill for the primary time ever. Last yr, the Jayhawks defeated UNC in Lawrence. The November 7 recreation was simply the third on-campus matchup in 14 video games between the Tar Heels and KU.
• The Tar Heels made their first journeys as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal.
TAR HEELS IN THE NBA
• Eleven former Tar Heels have been on NBA Opening Day rosters or are taking part in within the league, together with 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).
• Leaky Black (Washington/Capital City) and Cormac Ryan (Milwaukee/Wisconsin) just lately have signed two-way contracts.
• Several different Carolina alumni are taking part in within the G League: Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis (South Bay) and Ingram (Austin).
• At least a dozen Tar Heels are taking part in internationally, together with 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).
