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University of North Carolina Athletics
Postgame Notes
March 20, 2011 | Men's Basketball
March 20, 2011
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• UNC's win sent it to the regional semifinals for the 31st time in its NCAA Tournament history and an NCAA-record 24th Sweet 16 (since 1975). Carolina has won its last nine regional semifinal games since losing in 1992 to Ohio State.
• Carolina is now 104-39 in NCAA Tournament play. The 104 wins are most in NCAA history.
• Carolina is now 29-1 in NCAA Tournament games played in North Carolina and have on 25 in a row. UNC is 11-0 in NCAA Tournament games played in Charlotte.
• Head coach Roy Williams, the third-winningest coach in NCAA Tournament history, is now 57-18 in NCAA Tournament games, a winning percentage of .760 (second-highest among active coaches). Carolina is 23-4 in NCAA Tournament games under Williams.
• Williams is taking his 14th team to the Sweet 16 in 23 seasons as a head coach, including 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 at Carolina.
• Freshman point guard Kendall Marshall had 13 points and 14 assists. The 14 assists are the most ever by a Tar Heel in an NCAA Tournament game. The previous mark was Kenny Smith's 12 against Notre Dame in the 1987 East Regional semifinal in Charlotte. It was Marshall's second double-double of the season, the fifth time in the last eight games he's had 10 or more assists. Marshall's point-assist double-double was the first in an NCAA Tournament game since Ed Cota had 20 points and 10 assists in a loss to Weber State in 1999. Marshall now has 76 assists in his last eight games (9.5 per game during that stretch). Six of those games have come against teams participating in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. UNC is 16-2 with Marshall in the starting lineup.
• There have been 13 NCAA Tournament games in which a UNC has had 10 or more assists. Marshall has two of those games in his first two Tournament games. Ed Cota did so four times.
• The 86-83 win (three-point margin) was the closest win in an NCAA Tournament game for the Tar Heels since they beat Villanova 67-66 in the 2005 East Regional semifinal in Syracuse, N.Y.
• The Tar Heels are now 13-0 this season when scoring at least 80 points.
• Sophomore John Henson posted his eighth consecutive double-double with 10 points, 10 rebounds, four blocked shots and two steals. The last Tar Heel to have eight straight double-doubles was Sean May in 2005. Henson now has 14 consecutive double-figure rebounding games, the longest stretch by a Tar Heel since Billy Cunningham had 40 in a row from 1962-64.
• Henson now has 113 blocks this season, second most in UNC single season history and just seven behind Brendan Haywood's 120 in 2000-01. Henson is sixth in UNC career history with 173 blocks, one behind Kevin Salvadori.
• Tyler Zeller led Carolina in scoring with 23 points. It was his seventh 20-point game of the season and second in a row. He had 55 points in the two games this weekend, leading Carolina in scoring in both games. Today was the 13th time Zeller has led UNC in scoring this season, tying Harrison Barnes for the team lead.
• Harrison Barnes scored 22 points against Washington, his seventh 20-point game of the season and the third time in the last four postseason games he has scored 20 or more. Barnes is averaging 22.1 points over the last eight games. UNC is 14-0 when Barnes scores at least 17 points.
• Dexter Strickland had 13 points, six rebounds and no turnovers and hit both ends of a one-and-one free throw opportunity with 5.4 seconds to play. Strickland also helped contain Washington guard Isaiah Thomas to 5 of 15 shooting from the floor. Strickland's 13 points were his highest scoring output in eight games since he had 13 at NC State on Feb. 23. It was his 10th time scoring in double figures this year, and the Tar Heels are now 9-1 in those games. It was just the fourth time since the start of ACC play in January that Strickland scored in double figures.
• Sunday's game was the second time this season and the first time since Jan. 2 against Saint Francis that all five Tar Heel starters scored in double figures.
• UNC committed only nine turnovers and are 5-0 this season when committing fewer than 10 turnovers.
