MBB Hosts The Citadel In Final Non-Conference Home Game Tuesday

Tuesday, December 13

Chapel Hill

7 PM

North Carolina

The Citadel

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MBB Hosts The Citadel In Final Non-Conference Home Game Tuesday

December 12, 2022 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 11: THE CITADEL
• After a 20-day span between home games, Carolina returns to the Dean E. Smith Center for the second time in four days when the Tar Heels play host to The Citadel on Tuesday, Dec. 13.
• Tip time is 7 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 6-4 overall and 1-1 in the ACC after beating Georgia Tech, 75-59, on Saturday in UNC's home opener in conference play.
• RJ Davis had 22 points and 10 rebounds and Armando Bacot had 21 points and 13 boards to lead four Tar Heels in double figures. It was just the fifth time this century two Tar Heels posted 20/10 in the same game.
• Carolina matched its largest win of the season and had season-highs in rebound margin and assists to field goals made.
• The Citadel is 5-4. The Bulldogs have yet to open play in the Southern Conference. They are coming off a 79-57 home loss to the College of Charleston, the only common opponent to date with UNC. The Tar Heels defeated Charleston, 102-86, in the Smith Center on November 11.
• The Bulldogs have played one previous ACC opponent this year, losing 80-69 in the season opener at Clemson on November 7.
• Carolina is 19-0 all-time against The Citadel. This is the first time the teams have played since a 97-58 UNC win in the Smith Center on 11/24/1991. Hubert Davis led five Tar Heels in double figures with 16 points.
• UNC is 8-0 in Chapel Hill vs. The Citadel, including 2-0 in the Smith Center (5-0 in Woollen Gym and 1-0 in Carmichael Auditorium).
• Carolina's 19 wins are the most in school history without a loss against any opponent.
• The Tar Heels are 456-83 all-time in 38 seasons in the Dean E. Smith Center, including 222-18 against non-ACC opponents.
• UNC has won 11 straight home games against non-ACC opponents.

STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE
• Carolina has played the 19th-most difficult schedule in the nation (per KenPom) among all teams and the fourth-most difficult among Power 5 conference teams behind only Michigan State, Oregon and Wisconsin.
• The four teams that have defeated UNC (Iowa State, Alabama, Indiana and Virginia Tech) were a combined 34-6 through December 11.
• Following Tuesday's home game vs. The Citadel, the Tar Heels wrap up their regular-season non-conference portion of the schedule with a pair of games against the Big Ten.
• UNC plays Ohio State in the CBS Sports Classic in New York's Madison Square Garden on December 17 and Michigan in the Jumpman Invitational in Charlotte on December 21.
• This will be Carolina's first game in Madison Square Garden since a 78-55 win over Rutgers on 12/28/2010. Since that game the Tar Heels have played nine times (6-3) in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

NOTABLES
• Some notable stats according to KenPom: the Tar Heels are 10th in the country in offensive efficiency (115 points per 100 possessions), 13th best in getting to the free throw line (and 11th in percentage of points coming from the free throw line) and have committed the 26th-fewest turnovers per possession.
• Conversely, the Tar Heels are 325th in three-point percentage, 312th in forcing turnovers and 338th in assists to field goals (up 11 spots after a season-best 15 assists on 27 field goals vs. Georgia Tech).
• Carolina is attempting 26.2 free throws per game. That is UNC's third most in the last 45 years. Only the 1994-95 (28.8 per game) and 2004-05 (27.0) teams averaged more attempts per game.
• The Tar Heels are converting 75.2% from the free throw line, the second straight season UNC has converted 75% or better (76.4%, second best in school history in 2021-22).
• UNC is shooting 28.8% from three-point range. That is on pace to be the lowest in UNC history (30.4% in 2019-20). That is a drop from 35.8% last season.
• Some notable stats in the Tar Heels' recent four-game losing streak: Carolina shot 41.4% from the floor, including 23.7% from three; the opponents made nearly twice as many threes (35 to 18 or 8.8 per game to 4.5 per game); the opponents out-rebounded UNC by 3.0 per game; the Tar Heels averaged 7.3 fewer assists per game than their opponents; and UNC had assists on only 36.5% of its field goals.
• Armando Bacot and Pete Nance are one-two on the team in plus/minus. Bacot leads the team with a plus-68 and Nance is second at plus-61. Both frontcourt starters have led the team three times in plus/minus this season.
• Bacot is third in the country in offensive rebounding, sixth in total rebounds per game, seventh in free throw attempts and 10th in double-doubles.
• Carolina's opponents have scored 14 more points off turnovers than UNC has this season (the Tar Heels are 2-1 in games when they have scored more).
• The Tar Heels averaged only 8.6 fastbreak points in their first five games. In the last five games UNC has averaged 15.2 fastbreak points.
• Carolina's bench has outscored the opponents once this season (16-12 in the loss at Virginia Tech).
• Carolina's 103-101 loss to Alabama was just the second four-overtime game in UNC history and the first since Carolina beat Tulane, 113-106, in New Orleans on Feb. 14, 1976.
• Carolina had not played even a triple overtime game since 2003-04 (a 119-114 loss to Wake Forest).
• It was only the third time UNC lost in 211 games all-time when scoring 100 points.
• Caleb Love played 57:24 in Carolina's four-overtime loss to Alabama. That is the second-highest minutes played in a game by a Tar Heel. Phil Ford played 58 minutes in a four-OT win at Tulane in 1976.
• Love was named to the PKI All-Tournament team after scoring a career-high 34 points against the Tide.
• The Nov. 21 poll was the 113th time UNC was ranked No. 1 in an AP poll, fourth most in NCAA college basketball history.
• This was the 10th time the Tar Heels have been ranked No. 1 to begin a season (1977-78, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1993-94, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2022-23).
• UNC's 10 preseason No. 1 rankings are the most all-time, breaking a tie with Duke. UCLA is third with eight, Kentucky is fourth with six and Arizona, Indiana, Kansas and Michigan are tied with three.

IN THE RECORD BOOK
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 80 1,000-point scorers, including Caleb Love and Armando Bacot, who scored his 1,000th point on 1/29/22.
• RJ Davis needs 67 points for 1,000.
• Love scored his 1,000th point in his 73rd game, the fewest games needed since Harrison Barnes hit the mark in his 61st game as a Tar Heel.
• Bacot set UNC single-season records last year with 511 rebounds, 31 double-doubles, five 20-rebound games (tied), 32 games with 10 or more rebounds, rebounds in an NCAA Tournament and rebounds by a Tar Heel in the Elite 8, national semifinal and national championship games.
• Bacot became the first player in NCAA Tournament history with six double-doubles in one year and tied the NCAA single-season record for double-doubles with 31 (Navy's David Robinson also had 31 in 1985-86).
• Bacot grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds in UNC's 80-64 win over previously unbeaten James Madison on November 20. Bacot's 23 rebounds (and Leaky Black's career-high 12 boards) helped the Tar Heels out-rebound the Dukes, 50-34.
• Bacot's 23 rebounds marked his sixth career game with 20 or more and 18th with 15 or more.
• Bacot had 13 rebounds against Georgia Tech, his 61st game with 10 or more. He tied Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham for the most games by a Tar Heel with 10 or more rebounds.
• Bacot is second in UNC history in double-doubles (54), second in offensive rebounds per game (3.53), third in rebounds (1,103) and sixth in rebounds per game (10.1). The Richmond, Va., native is one of eight Tar Heels to average a career double-double (13.3/10.1).
• Sean May and Bacot are the only Tar Heels to average a double-double over a career in the last 50 seasons.
• Bacot passed George Lynch during the win over Georgia Tech for third place all-time in rebounds at UNC. He needs 66 to pass College Basketball Hall of Famer Sam Perkins for second and 117 to surpass four-time first-team All-America Tyler Hansbrough for the UNC record.
• Leaky Black has played in 132 games in four-plus seasons. He could break Deon Thompson's school record for games played (152).
• Black is one of two current Tar Heels to start at least 100 career games. Bacot has made 108 starts and Black has 107.
• RJ Davis is fifth at UNC in free throw percentage.

MILLER, WILLIAMS INDUCTED INTO COLLEGE HALL
• Larry Miller, the only Tar Heel to twice earn ACC Player of the Year and ACC Tournament MVP honors, and three-time national championship winning head coach Roy Williams were inducted in the NABC College Basketball Hall of Fame Nov. 20 in Kansas City.
• Miller and Williams are among 13 Tar Heels in the College Basketball Hall of Fame with Larry Brown, Ben Carnevale, Billy Cunningham, Phil Ford, Antawn Jamison, Bob McAdoo, Frank McGuire, Sam Perkins, Charlie Scott, Dean Smith and James Worthy.
• In September, George Karl was inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame. Karl, who played at UNC from 1970-73, became the 12th Tar Heel enshrined in Springfield with Brown, Carnevale, Cunningham, Bobby Jones, Michael Jordan, McAdoo, McGuire, Scott, Smith, Williams and James Worthy.

NOVEMBER SIGNEES
• Carolina signed two players to National Letters of Intent in November 2022.
• Zayden High, a 6-10 forward from San Antonio, Texas. High attends AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Ariz., where he plays for Coach Ed Gipson.
• Simeon Wilcher, a 6-5 guard from Plainfield, N.J. Wilcher plays for Coach Dave Boff at Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, N.J.