MBB On The Road Again At Syracuse Saturday
• Carolina returns to the highway Saturday when the Tar Heels play within the JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse.
• Tip time is 1 p.m. on ABC (Kevin Brown, Jon Crispin).
• UNC is 20-6 total, 8-5 within the ACC. The Orange are 15-12, 6-8.
• Both groups are coming off losses earlier this week. Duke beat the Orange, 101-64, in Durham on Monday, and NC State beat the Tar Heels, 82-58, in Raleigh on Tuesday.
• Syracuse is 12-4 within the Dome this season. Carolina is 3-5 on the highway with wins at Kentucky, Virginia and Georgia Tech.
• The beginning time for subsequent Saturday’s sport towards Virginia Tech has not but been decided. It shall be performed at both 6:30 or 8:30 p.m.
HUBERT THE FIRST WITH FIVE
• Carolina’s win over Pitt final Saturday was its twentieth of the season.
• Hubert Davis turned the primary males’s basketball coach in ACC historical past to win 20 or extra sport in every of his first 5 seasons.
• Only three different ACC coaches ever gained 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 gained 20 or extra in his solely three seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
• Carolina has gained 20 or extra video games a file 66 occasions (Duke is second with 60).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 18 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 overwhelmed 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.
TUESDAY IN RALEIGH
• Jarin Stevenson and Zayden High led UNC with 13 factors apiece and High added a career-high 10 rebounds for his first double-double however the Wolfpack turned a dozen Tar Heel turnovers into 16 factors in an 82-58 State victory.
• It was NC State’s eighth win within the final 48 video games within the collection however its largest since 1962.
• The Tar Heels made 5 of 33 from three (1 for 16 within the first half) for 15.2%, their lowest proportion ever in a sport they tried 30 or extra three-pointers.
• Carolina fell to 20-7 vs. NC State within the Lenovo Center.
IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OFTEN
• The Tar Heels performed NC State with out Caleb Wilson (hand) and Henri Veesaar (decrease extremity), the second-straight sport each gamers didn’t play.
• The Pitt and NC State video games had been simply the second and third sport ever that Carolina performed with out each of its top-two scorers.
• The solely different sport UNC performed with out it top-two scorers was 2/23/1978, a 72-67 loss at NC State. Phil Ford (wrist) and Mike O’Koren (ankle) missed that sport with accidents.
• Through the February 10 sport at Miami, Veesaar and Wilson accounted for 44.2% of the Tar Heels’ scoring and 46.9% of the crew’s rebounds.
• Carolina’s high three scorers (Wilson, Veesaar and Seth Trimble) have now missed video games resulting from harm or sickness. The final time UNC’s high three scorers all missed video games resulting from harm or sickness was 2019-20, when Cole Anthony missed 11 video games, Garrison Brooks missed one and Brandon Robinson sat out 9.
UNC-SYRACUSE
• Carolina beat the Orange, 87-77, in Chapel Hill on February 2.
• The Orange are the one ACC crew aside from Duke the Tar Heels play home-and-home this season.
• Carolina is 19-7 all-time vs. Syracuse, together with 15-4 because the Orange joined the ACC.
• The Tar Heels are 6-3 towards Syracuse within the JMA Wireless Dome (previously the Carrier Dome), together with an 88-82 win on 2/15/2025.
• Including eight NCAA Tournament video games in 4 seasons (1983-1991-1997-2005), the Tar Heels are 13-4 within the JMA Wireless Dome.
FEBRUARY 2 IN CHAPEL HILL
• Caleb Wilson led Carolina 22 factors and Henri Veesaar had 17 factors, a game-high 11 boards and in addition led UNC with 4 assists.
• Jonathan Powell tied his season excessive with three 3FGs and scored 12 factors.
• Carolina led by as many as 32 factors (72-40) with 9:39 to play.
• The Orange outscored the Tar Heels, 37-15, over the ultimate 9:38, pulling to inside six at 83-77 with 42 seconds to play.
CAROLINA & THE ACC
• This is the 73rd season of competitors within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels had been a constitution member of the league, which started play within the 1953-54 season.
• Carolina is the one faculty 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 64-29 in regular-season ACC video games. Only one different crew 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 crew gained the regular-season title, Carolina’s thirty third.
• Carolina is 779-325 (.706) in regular-season ACC video games. The 779 wins are probably the most in ACC historical past. Duke is second with 750.
JARIN GETTING IT DONE
• Junior ahead Jarin Stevenson has scored in double figures in every of the final three video games, the primary three-game double-figure streak in his 100-game collegiate profession.
• The 6-10 junior from Chapel Hill is 16 for twenty-four from the ground and totaled 45 factors within the final three video games. He was 6 for 10 from the ground and had 13 factors at Miami, made 6 of seven photographs and had 19 towards Pitt and 4 of seven at NC State.
• He has led the Tar Heels in scoring in all three video games, the primary thrice he has achieved that.
• He scored in double figures thrice within the first 19 video games and 4 occasions within the final seven video games. That features a 17-point effort at Virginia, the place he scored all of his factors within the second half in main the Tar Heels to a win after trailing by 16.
• Stevenson is 10 for 23 from three within the final eight video games and 32 for 38 (84.2%) from the free throw line within the final 14 video games.
CALEB & HENRI
• The Naismith Hall of Fame named Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson to the Midseason Top 10 lists for his or her respective positional awards (Veesaar for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center Award and Wilson for the Karl Malone Power Forward Award).
• Wilson is averaging 19.8 factors and 9.4 rebounds, whereas Veesaar is averaging 16.4 factors and 9.0 rebounds.
• The final pair of Tar Heels to common 16 factors and 9 rebounds in a season was Doug Moe and Lee Shaffer in 1959-60.
• Combined, they’ve 24 double-doubles and scored 20 or extra factors 23 occasions.
WILSON: MIDSEASON AWARDS CANDIDATE
• Caleb Wilson is on the Late-Season Watch Lists for the John R. Wooden National Player of the Year and Naismith Trophy. He was a mid-season candidate for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year, Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year, USBWA’s Oscar Robertson Trophy and Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year awards.
• The 6-10 Atlanta native has made an instantaneous influence on the Tar Heel file e-book, changing into the primary freshman to attain 20 or extra factors in six consecutive video games (from Georgetown via Florida State). The earlier file 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 file. 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 purpose proportion.
• His scoring common of 19.8 factors per sport is on tempo to set the UNC freshman file.
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 guide the crew in each scoring and rebounding. He additionally led the crew as a freshman in steals. No Tar Heel freshman has ever led the crew 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 third within the ACC in double-doubles, fourth in scoring and fifth in discipline purpose proportion and double-doubles.
• Wilson and Duke’s Cameron Boozer are the one gamers within the high 5 in scoring, rebounding, discipline purpose proportion and double-doubles.
• Wilson set a UNC freshman file with 4 consecutive double-doubles towards Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Bacot (twice), Jamison and O’Koren had been the one Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row.
VEESAAR MAKING A MAJOR IMPACT
• Red-shirt junior middle Henri Veesaar, a switch from Arizona, leads the crew in discipline purpose taking pictures (61.5%) and three-point accuracy (44.8%) and is second in scoring (16.4), rebounding (9.0) and blocks (29).
• He practically 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 photographs 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 leads the ACC and is thirteenth 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 is second within the ACC and twentieth nationally in discipline purpose proportion. He’s additionally fifth within the ACC in rebounding and eleventh in factors per sport.
• The Estonia native scored the game-winner towards Ohio State, had a game-high 17 factors within the win at Kentucky and grabbed a career-best 15 rebounds within the win over Georgetown.
• He has scored in double figures in 23 of his 24 video games (all besides Virginia, the place he had 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 established profession highs in rebounds 4 occasions – 10 vs. Central Arkansas, 11 vs. NC Central, 13 vs. St. Bonaventure and 15 vs. Georgetown.
• 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 sport in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 285 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus seven occasions. He and Jarin Stevenson have led seven occasions apiece.
• Veesaar has eight video games the place he was plus 20 or greater.
HENRI FROM 3
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina’s first 7-footer ever to make a number of three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 30 for 67 from three and leads the crew in three-point proportion (.448).
• He is third on the crew 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 twelfth within the nation in help/turnover ratio, twelfth in turnover proportion, sixteenth in turnovers, thirtieth in offensive effectivity and forty eighth in assists per sport.
• The Tar Heels are forty sixth within the nation in discipline purpose proportion protection, holding their opponents to a mixed 41.3% from the ground. They’ve held seven opponents beneath 35% and 11 below 40%.
• UNC is 11-0 this season and 56-4 below head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents below 40% from the ground and 0-4 this season and 6-19 below Davis when the opponents make 50%.
• The Tar Heel protection is eleventh within the nation in two-point discipline purpose proportion protection (45.2%) and thirty eighth in efficient discipline purpose proportion (47.5%).
THREES
• Carolina is making 8.54 three-pointers per sport, 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.
• Over the final seven video games, Carolina has made 60 threes and allowed 48.
• Five completely different Tar Heels have made at the least 29 three-pointers – Luka Bogavac (41), Derek Dixon (32), Henri Veesaar (30), Jonathan Powell (30) and Kyan Evans (29).
MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 video games)
8.54 in 2025-26 (222 in 26 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 25.5 three-pointers per sport, which might break the earlier faculty file of 23.9 in 2018-19.
• 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
25.46 in 2025-26 (662 in 26 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 8.5 threes per sport whereas permitting 7.9. UNC is in on observe 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).
• The loss at Miami ended a streak of twenty-two straight video games the Tar Heels gained once they made extra three-pointers than their opponent.
TURNOVERS
• UNC is averaging 9.38 turnovers, its fewest ever (earlier low is 10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels have dedicated fewer than 5 turnovers thrice within the final seven video games, together with 4 at Virginia, two at Georgia Tech and 4 vs. Pitt.
• In the final two losses towards at Miami and NC State, the Tar Heels dedicated 11 and 12 turnovers, respectively.
• Carolina has dedicated 10 or extra turnovers in every of the final 5 losses.
• 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 has UNC had multiple.
• Including this season, Hubert Davis‘ groups have produced the four-lowest turnover per sport averages and 5 of the six-lowest in UNC historical past.
• The Tar Heels drive 9.5 turnovers per sport. Carolina is 342nd 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 1.76 is the most effective in UNC historical past (earlier 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Every participant on the crew who performs at the least 10 minutes a sport has extra assists than turnovers.
• The Tar Heels are on observe to make this the primary season when each participant who averages double-figure minutes has extra assists than turnovers since turnovers had been formally recorded starting in 1979-80.
• Among the eight gamers who common 10 or extra minutes, Jonathan Powell has the most effective help/turnover ratio (2.75). He is adopted by Kyan Evans (2.45) Luka Bogavac (2.26), and Derek Dixon (2.23).
• Caleb Wilson has 64 assists and 47 turnovers (1.36) and Henri Veesaar has 48 assists and 37 turnovers (1.30). They are the primary Tar Heels 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 20 wins and the six losses:
• UNC averages 83.5 factors within the wins and 72.2 within the losses.
• The Tar Heels enable 66.8 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 38.2/30.5 in Carolina’s 20 wins.
• The Tar Heels have a rebound margin of 5.9 within the wins and have the identical variety of rebounds because the opponents within the losses.
• Carolina makes 1.7 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 504-90 in regular-season and NIT video games within the Smith Center.
• UNC turned the ninth present ACC crew with 500 or extra wins of their respective residence venues.
• Carolina has gained 84.8% of its video games within the Smith Center. Only one crew within the ACC that has 500 or extra wins in its present venue has the next profitable proportion.
• Carolina is 263-71 (.787) in ACC video games within the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have gained 15 straight video games within the Smith Center, all this season.
• UNC has performed 46.5% of its residence video games within the Smith Center (594 of 1,278).
• Carolina has performed 154 completely different opponents in regular-season or NIT video games within the Smith Center.
• The Smith Center is the fifth residence venue for the Tar Heels. Carolina has gained 504 video games within the Smith Center, 210 in Woollen Gym (1939-65), 170 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 thrice this season. He was one in all 5 gamers named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9, he gained 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 thrice, 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 turned 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 faculty males’s basketball sport within the final 4 seasons.
• The sport drew a median of three.5 million viewers with a peak of 4.8 million.
PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL
• The Tar Heels had 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 crew and the All-Freshman crew.
• UNC was picked No. 25 within the nation within the Associated Press preseason ballot.
• This is the 69th completely 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 gained National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a nationwide title sport look, 120 wins, a 64-29 file and 26 highway wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed within the NCAA Tournament. Only one different crew has gained 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 gained its one hundredth sport below 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 gained 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 18 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 2025).
2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES
• The Tar Heels performed 10 residence video games previous to New Year’s Day for the primary time since 2009-10.
• In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to Florida State, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Duke, Pitt, Louisville (Feb. 23), Virginia Tech (Feb. 28) and Clemson (March 3).
• Carolina performs at SMU, Stanford, Cal, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State, Syracuse (Feb. 21) and Duke (March 7).
• UNC isn’t scheduled to play Boston College.
• This will mark the primary season since 1919 the Tar Heels should not 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 sport 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 had been on NBA Opening Day rosters, 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).
• Five Carolina alumni are taking part in within the G League: Leaky Black (Capital City), Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis (South Bay), Harrison Ingram (Austin) and Cormac Ryan (Wisconsin).
• At least a dozen Tar Heels are 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).
RJ HONORED ON MONDAY
• RJ Davis, the 2024 ACC Player of the Year, may have his No. 4 jersey raised to the rafters at halftime of Monday’s sport towards Louisville.
• Davis is the 54th participant to have his quantity retired or honored (his is the forty sixth honored jersey). He certified below the present standards as ACC Player of the Year and a first-team All-America, an honor he additionally unanimously earned in 2024.
• Davis is averaging 19.9 factors and 5.7 assists whereas taking pictures 46.2% from three for the South Bay Lakers.
• His honors, awards and data at Carolina embody:
– 2024 unanimous first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC (second-team All-ACC in 2025)
– 2024 ACC Player of the Year
– 2024 Jerry West Award because the Best Shooting Guard within the Country
– Three-time winner of UNC’s Dean Smith Award (Most Valuable Player)
– helped lead UNC to the 2022 Final Four and nationwide championship sport look (he scored 18 factors within the nationwide semifinal win over Duke)
– UNC profession file for factors by a guard (2,725)
– UNC profession file for three-pointers (359)
– Smith Center scoring file 42 factors vs. Miami, February 26, 2024
– UNC single-season scoring file by a guard (784 factors in 2023-24)
– UNC single-season data for three-pointers (113) and most three-pointers per sport (3.05) in 2023-24
– Second in profession scoring by a Tar Heel and third in ACC historical past
– UNC profession file for highest free throw proportion (86.1%)
– UNC-record 23 consecutive video games with a number of three-pointers
– Tied UNC file for consecutive free throws made (41)
– ACC-record 175 video games performed
– ACC-record 140 video games scoring in double figures
– Only Tar Heel with 2,500 factors, 600 rebounds, 500 assists, 300 three-pointers and 175 steals
– Only Tar Heel with 10+ assists in a single NCAA Tournament sport and 30+ factors within the subsequent
• In addition to honoring Davis at halftime, Carolina will welcome again former soccer coach Mack Brown on Monday, and have a good time crew and particular person awards gained by the sector hockey and girls’s lacrosse groups.
• The discipline hockey crew gained the 2025 ACC championship (its school-record twenty eighth) and made its NCAA-record twenty ninth look within the Final Four.
• Field hockey senior Ryleigh Heck’s quantity 12 shall be retired. Heck was the National Player of the Year in 2023, when she led the Tar Heels to their eleventh NCAA title.
• Women’s lacrosse’s Chloe Humphrey was the consensus National Player of the Year in 2025. Humphrey led the Tar Heels to an NCAA championship final spring.
• The males’s basketball crew shall be sporting pregame warm-up shirts designed by college students at Hargraves Community Center. The crew visited Hargraves in January and labored with college students to design the shirts on tablets given to the middle by Lenovo.
